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Logicalis UK&I officially named a 2022 UK’s Best Workplace™ in Tech

3 years ago By Real Wire

Logicalis UK&I’s supportive and collaborative environment is just one of the reasons why its employees believe it is a great place to work

London, UK, 30th September 2022: Logicalis UK&I, an IT solutions and managed service provider, announces it has been recognised as one of the UK's Best Workplaces™ in Tech, 2022. The list was launched by Great Place to Work® UK, ranking Logicalis UK&I 59 out of 67 medium-sized organisations.

WatchGuard Threat Lab Reports Decrease in Malware Volume, Surge in Encrypted Malware and Actively Exploited Office Vulnerabilities

3 years ago By Real Wire

The Emotet comeback continues as threat actors target SCADA systems

28 September 2022: The latest Internet Security Report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab, shows a reduction in overall malware detections from the peaks seen in the first half of 2021, along with an increase in threats for Chrome and Microsoft Office and the ongoing Emotet botnet resurgence.

OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative Announce 2023 State of Open Source Survey

3 years ago By Real Wire

MINNEAPOLIS, September 27, 2022 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, today announced the beginning of their 2023 State of Open Source Survey – a collaboration between OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a non-profit that raises awareness and adoption of open source software (OSS).

The survey, which measures the day-to-day use and management of open source software, will run through November – with the resulting data used as the basis for the 2023 OpenLogic and OSI State of Open Source Report.

SaaS Data Was the Target of 51% of Ransomware Attacks in the Last 12 Months

3 years ago By Real Wire

SAN FRANCISCO - September 27, 2022 - Odaseva, the leading enterprise data protection platform for Salesforce, today released the findings of a global survey that shows that organizations are largely unprepared for ransomware attacks on their data stored in SaaS platforms. Attacks on SaaS data are an increasingly common cybersecurity target, and they succeed in encrypting SaaS data half the time, leaving only half of the victims able to fully recover. Differentiating from other ransomware studies, the survey queried senior data professionals at large enterprises of 10,000 employees or more.

Ransomware attacks are successfully targeting both SaaS and cloud data

Paying the ransom is still the most common response to a ransomware attack

3 years ago By Real Wire

Although progress has been made, organisations are still paying out

New research from Databarracks reveals 44% of organisations that suffered a ransomware attack, paid the ransom. 34% recovered from backups, while 22% used ransomware decryption tools.

The findings come from the Databarracks 2022 Data Health Check. Running since 2008, the annual report surveys over 400 IT decision-makers in the UK on Ransomware, Cyber, Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.

Quocirca Future of Work Study Tracks Rise of the Employee-centric Hybrid Workplace

3 years ago By Real Wire

London, UK, 27th September 2022: Quocirca today published the third edition of its Global Print 2025 study, analyzing how print and digital convergence is shaping today’s workplace. ‘The Future of Work, 2025’ reveals that post-pandemic transformation is proceeding at pace and that the role and requirements of the modern workplace are undergoing fundamental changes. As the energy crisis and ‘Great Resignation’ add increasing complexity to decisions by both employers and employees on the balance between home and office working, changes are set to continue.

The in-depth study was conducted among 1021 office workers and 521 IT decision-makers in SMBs and large enterprises in the UK, France, Germany, and the US.

UK Energy Providers Inundated with Customer Calls Due to Price Hikes, Infinity Data Reveals

3 years ago By Real Wire

London, 27th September 2022: Infinity, the global call intelligence and speech analytics platform, can today reveal that it has seen significant spikes in call volumes to utilities providers using its platform relating to energy price cap increases. Infinity’s call data shows that there was a week-on-week increase of 50.1% in calls between March 20th and 27th, the week preceding the April 1st price hike. A spike of 10% could also be seen between August 28th and September 4th, the week Ofgem announced the October 1st price cap increase.

Half of customer service calls fail due to contact center background noise

3 years ago By Real Wire

London, UK; 26th September 2022: Almost half of customer service calls are abandoned due to contact center background noise, with 42% hanging up immediately when they detect the noise.

That’s according to the team behind IRIS Clarity, the AI-powered voice isolation app, which surveyed 1,000 consumers across the UK and US around their interactions with contact centers. The results are compounded by the fact that while all respondents indicated they use voice channels in some way for their customer service inquiries, more than half (54%) said they only use it for critical issues — making voice a premium that is demonstrably failing to deliver.

Skilled Staff Shortage and Cybersecurity Concerns Drive “Super Growth” In IT & Business Services M&A, Says Hampleton Partners

3 years ago By Real Wire

London, UK – 21 September 2022. The latest global IT & Business Services M&A Market report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, reveals that sector transaction volume reached a record 699 deals in 1H2022, a massive 92 per cent increase year-on-year.

Miro Parizek, founder and principal partner, Hampleton Partners, said: “Many IT services players are buying up providers in niche areas to fill in gaps in domain expertise and experienced specialists.

“In parallel, staff shortages have compelled CIOs to outsource tasks to managed service firms, which are therefore now in high demand and valuable.

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