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Cybersecurity professionals need to learn to expect the unexpected

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Long before Monty Python turned the phrase “expect the unexpected” into a catchphrase during a skit about the Spanish Inquisition, the Irish poet and play Oscar Wilde observed that being able to “expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

Cybersecurity professionals generally have confidence in their ability to rebuff external threats as cybercriminals test the strength of their defenses every day. However, as far as the actions of employees, contractors and suppliers are concerned cybersecurity confidence become far less certain. Two separate surveys published by BeyondTrust and Centrify, which are both focused on tools for managing privileged access management (PAM), illustrate the extent of the challenge.

New survey of IT leaders reveals that 64% believe employee access to be a direct or indirect cause of #DataBreach. Click To Tweet

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What is Barracuda Firewall Insights?

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Keeping an organization secure and connected can be a challenging, time-consuming task, something cybersecurity professionals know all too well. This situation is only exacerbated by the growing cybersecurity staffing shortage. According to recent research, there is now a gap of nearly 3 million cybersecurity jobs globally.  

So how do IT security teams deal with this harsh reality and the pressure that comes with it? One way is to find solutions that help make life easier by automating manual tasks, freeing up security professionals to focus on more strategic operations. That’s why we recently introduced Barracuda Firewall Insights. [Read more…] about What is Barracuda Firewall Insights?

Email security is channel’s biggest focus for 2019

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At Barracuda, we take pride in our ability to listen and react to what’s happening in the channel. With this in mind, when we headed to Marbella for our annual Discover partner conference last month, one of the things high up on our to-do list was to speak to our channel partners across the EMEA region to get their take on upcoming trends, where they see their focus for the next twelve months and their perception of end-user behaviour.

So what does the channel think? And does it match with what we’re hearing from end users? We took to the streets (metaphorically) to hear what our partners thought… Here’s what 264 of them said.

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How good data protection can add value to your business

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The frequent headlines around spear phishing and ransomware serve as regular reminders that data protection is critical to a business.    The City of Baltimore, Oklahoma City Public School, and Wolverine Solutions Group are just a few of the organizations that have fallen victim to ransomware attacks in recent months.  Despite the ubiquity of these threats, many businesses are unprepared for this type of crime or any other catastrophic business loss.  Sometimes this is due to a misunderstanding or misconfiguration of the backup solution, and sometimes it’s just a matter of business managers working so hard on growing the business that they just don’t think about how to protect the business data.

Conventional wisdom around data backup and protection is that it’s a necessary but routine task for any modern business.  But what if it was possible to use this routine task as a differentiator for your business?  What if you could manage your data protection in such a way that it added value to your brand?

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Time to put an end to the cybersecurity blame game

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Whenever something goes wrong there’s a natural tendency to want to find someone to blame. In the realm of cybersecurity, that urge to blame someone often results in someone getting fired whenever there is cybersecurity breach. The results of a survey of  more than 400 C-suite executives from enterprises across the U.K. and U.S. that oversee businesses with over 8,000 employees published this week by Nominet, a provider of a managed DNS security services, finds that one-third of CEOs said that they would terminate the contract of those responsible for a data breach.

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