A
recent report by the UK
gov ernment on cybercrime
reveals 46 per cent of busi-
nesses that identified breaches or
attacks in 2020, experienced them
at least on a weekly basis.
The number of attacks has risen
considerably since 2017 – and the
nature of breaches continues to
evolve.This forces security experts
to continually play cat and mouse in a
swiftly expanding digital environment
where vulnerabilities increase with the
amount of technology connected to it.CLOUD
The bigger they are, the harder they fall,
or so it seems following the devastating
breach recently suffered by Microsoft
and the mid-December outage experi-
enced by Google, the cause of which is
yet to be officially confirmed.
While details are still emerging, the
SolarWinds attack is the most critical
of its kind in recent times. According to
Microsoft, the hackers infiltrated a server
used to build updates for the SolarWinds
Orion Platform, a product used for IT
infrastructure management.50
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