Employees should be trained to recognize cybersecurity threats before they damage their organizations. In fact, research into the global cybersecurity skills shortage indicates that the situation is not improving and may also be getting worse. According to ESG & ISSA Research Report entitled “The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals 2020”, 70% of cybersecurity professionals […]
Covid-19
The United Kingdom is already vulnerable to cyberattacks. A study conducted by Specops on cybercrimes between 2006 and 2020 shows that the country is the second most targeted by significant cyberattacks. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies have shifted their businesses online in response to the lockdown measures. A significant number of UK […]
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies were forced to move their work entirely online making adjustments to help employees to be most effective. According to a recent study conducted by Dingel and Neiman, 37% of jobs have the potential to be done remotely. With the expectations of a new wave of the virus, technology […]
The current pandemic has affected all types of businesses and industries and has brought forward new technologies and innovations. What will the future of travel look like post COVID-19? We break down some of the most prominent technologies in travel tech that are here to stay post COVID-19. People will want to travel again – […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s bans on two popular Chinese social media apps — TikTok and WeChat — are the latest moves in an escalating U.S.-China rift, and point to a future where technology and innovation are increasingly walled behind political barriers. In China, the Communist Party has long limited what foreign tech […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back. The company reported Thursday that its NBCUniversal TV, film and theme park divisions, as well as its Sky unit in Europe, all suffered steep drops in revenue […]
The shift to telework, video conferences, social distancing and reduction of high-density work settings, are all measures taken by companies to help mitigate the transmission of Coronavirus. This change in work life has also encouraged the digitization of businesses. For many companies in Japan, work from home measures will stay in place for better operational […]
The coronavirus sapped $2.8 billion in revenue from AT&T in its most recent quarter, mostly in its WarnerMedia TV and film division. Its satellite TV business, DirecTV, continued to bleed customers. “I expect we’re going to be dealing with some of these economic challenges in the COVID environment as we move forward here,” said AT&T […]
Authorities worldwide have been using technology to help curve the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The UK government has been running the Test and Trace program since May 2020 but have not carried out the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under this law, companies and government […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles and San Diego school districts, the two largest in California with a combined K-12 student population of about 720,000, announced Monday they won’t bring students back to classrooms next month because of rising coronavirus hospitalizations and infection rates. School leaders said there is too much uncertainty surrounding the […]