We all use email everyday both in our personal life and within business.  The total number of business and consumer emails sent and received per day will exceed 306 billion in 2020 and is forecast to grow to over 361 billion by year-end 2024 according to The Radicati Group.  That is over half the world population using email.  

But do we understand the importance of ensuring our emails are secure and why?

Here are five reasons why email security must be a priority for your business.

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Concerns about Deepfakes are nothing new, but the technology has advanced far faster than many anticipated and has given rise to a medium that’s terrifying in its potential.

Though watching Jim Carrey’s face on Allison Brie’s body is, admittedly, delightful, the implications for forgery are sobering.

Consider, for instance, the recent Deepfake using Vladimir Putin’s face over MIT Technology Review’s editor-in-chief Gideon Lichfield’s body. Though it’s clear that Putin himself isn’t being interviewed, it isn’t a bad effort. It also doesn’t take a big imaginative leap to envision how the technology can be further enhanced and used with nefarious intent.

In the meantime, here are five useful tips to separate digital sophistry from the real thing:

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Now that the COVID-19 crisis has ushered in an indefinite period of remote work, many IT leaders are tasked with keeping security operations running smoothly from a distance for the first time.

If your organisation has both Apple and PC devices, you might be focusing your energy on Windows security and overlooking Mac and iOS vulnerabilities in the process. 

The good news is that your employees’ Apple devices already have strong security systems built in. They’re just different from a PC’s lines of defense, which may be the root of several misconceptions. Here are three Apple device security myths and the features you should proactively manage instead.

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Whatever the company, whatever the sector, there’s one phrase at the top of the agenda for every IT director: the ‘skills crisis’.

Undeniably, the crisis is a very real problem for IT, with significant consequences for the competitiveness of UK businesses and the economy at large. Recent Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) research starkly illustrated this problem, revealing that 40 per cent of organisations believe their efforts to implement digital transformation are hampered by a lack of staff and skills.

As the coronavirus emergency develops, these skills challenges are set to aggravate further. Mainframe operations, in particular, may be put under pressure, creating issues for mission critical workloads like on-premise SAP.

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Some have them openly saved on a notepad. Others prefer to add them as a random contact on their mobile phone. A few try to remember them off by heart – but ultimately most people have to go through the rigmarole of resetting passwords on a regular basis.

Since the early days of computing back in the 1960s, passwords have been the go-to method for computer security. They are simple and straightforward to implement, enabling a user to keep files and data secured by requiring a specific and unique string of characters for access.

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At the time of writing, the majority of the world’s governments have effected stay-at-home measures, mass confinements which would be unnavigable for businesses without cloud software and infrastructure. If we didn’t appreciate it before, the sheer power, necessity, even, of cloud computing has been keenly felt in recent weeks. 

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