According to a report by Channel News Asia, during the first part of 2020 COVID-19 related cyberattacks increased over 100x. Phishing, ransomware, data breaches, and other cyber threats became worse last year, spurred on by the disruption of the pandemic. In 2021,...
A survey of companies across 26 countries, including Singapore, found that 70% of businesses have suffered a public cloud breach within the last 12 months. Cloud security has become a major issue following the migration of a majority of organizations to cloud...
While remote working was already a growing trend prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis accelerated the process. It has now forever changed the way that many businesses operate in Singapore and around the world. A survey of CFOs revealed that 74% of them intend to...
How secure is the data in your cloud applications? Probably not as secure as you might think. Many small businesses in Singapore and the rest of the world have made the transition to the cloud, and cyberattacks have followed the data there. As many as 59% of surveyed...
As Singapore prepares for a three-phase reopening after Circuit Breaker measures to combat COVID-19, business owners are looking forward to reopening premises that have been dormant for about two months. Some businesses have had to close altogether during the...
While some basic threats like phishing URLs were down in 2018 as compared to 2017, according to the Cyber Security Agency (CSA), Singapore saw a rise in cybercrime cases (up over 15%) and email impersonation, with monetary losses up 31%. As technology keeps evolving...
One of the biggest threats to a company’s health and wellbeing in the 21st century is a data breach. Data breaches can involve things like ransomware attacks that render all your data unreadable or an attack that steals sensitive employee or customer information. Most...
Over the last decade, cloud computing has taken over offices around the world. Currently 90% of companies use the cloud for at least part of their workflow and by 2021, it’s projected that cloud data centers will process 94% of all workloads. There are multiple ways...
Before the cloud came along, all business applications were considered “on-premise.” You bought a piece of software, installed it on your computer, and entered the license key, which typically only gave you the ability to use it on one computer. Then, faster and most...
A majority of small businesses don’t have the funds to deal with the aftermath of a cyberattack, which have an average price tag for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) of $1.43 million US, up 33% from 2017. Many business owners hope they can fly under a...
