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01732 759725 4 BULLETIN Threatened by cyber incidents According to data gathered by PreciseSecurity.com, nearly 40% of companies feel threatened by cyber incidents and find it the most concerning business risk in 2020. The recent figures confirm that the global concern about cybercrime, IT failure and data breach has increased 2% over the last year. Business interruption is the second most important risk in 2020 with 37% of companies worrying about this kind of uncertainty, revealed the Allianz Risk Barometer. Changes in legislation and regulation, like trade wars and tariffs, economic sanctions, Brexit and Euro-zone disintegration, ranked third on the list, followed by natural catastrophes and market development. The survey revealed that businesses all over the world recognise cybercrime as a more significant problem than loss of reputation, macroeconomic developments, political risks, or shortage of skilled workforce. www.precisesecurity.com Driving value from data Independent IT advisory Coeus Consulting, has announced new research into the approaches organisations are using to drive value from their data. The report – Beyond Technology: How can organisations drive sustainable value from their data investments? – highlights that many organisations are potentially failing to realise the potential value, or monetise, their data despite 74% acknowledging it as a key priority. The survey found that 80% of the large organisations surveyed believe accountability for data strategy rests with technology leaders such as IT Director, CIO or CTO. Additionally only a quarter of organisations currently elect to have a Chief Data Officer, and even less place accountability with others in the C-suite. Emphasis is being placed on speed (32%), cost (28%), and competition (30%), but less so on more fundamental underlying value, the insights it offers, or decision-makers’ ability to develop new products and services from those learnings. Richard Graham, Associate Director said: “Many investments in data and analytics have been started from a technology perspective with little alignment to business value or desired outcomes that can be measured against a business strategy. Businesses need a change of mind-set and approach right across the organisation, and the challenge is more than simply collecting data and making it available.” www.coeus.consulting Salaries set to increase Professional salaries in the UK are expected to increase by at least 3% in 2020 – following two years of pay freezes, according to global recruitment constancy Robert Walters. With over half of UK professionals believing that their pay is not an accurate reflection of the work they do – news of salary increases above 2020 inflation rates (1.94%) will be warmly welcomed. The biggest pay increases for white collar professionals will be in the Midlands (+4.46%), the North (+3.31%), followed by south east (+2.90%) and Merseyside (+2.86%). Whilst business confidence returns to most regions within the UK, London will experience the slowest growth in salaries at +2.15% - less than half of the increase expected in the Midlands. www.robertwalters.com Businesses under pressure According to IT managers recently surveyed by Epson, the need to invest in new technology (58%), reducing costs (51%) and investing in new talent (42%) were cited as the top three business pressures placed on organisations in the past two years. While 38% stated they were under considerable pressure to improve CSR performance, tight budget restrictions have left 37% unable to employ new staff. Epson argues that switching from one type of printer technology to a modern alternative could unlock invaluable resources within the corporate sector. The company says that a simple move away from laser printing to business inkjet technology has the potential to save European corporations over 1 billion Kwh in energy consumption, cut costs by €134 million and reduce CO2 emissions by 409 million kg each year. Phil Sargeant of IDC, said: “Over recent years we have seen the rise of the business inkjet, from manufacturers such as Epson and HP and to a lesser extent, Canon and Brother. The penetration for inkjets is increasing almost 2% a year. Inkjets have become a solidly mainstream choice. Now one in three devices being sold into an office environment is a business inkjet. If you look at some markets in Europe, the penetration is as high as 40%.” www.epson.co.uk Availability matters LogicMonitor’s latest research, the IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Report examined the impact of digital transformation on availability for organisations. The company surveyed 300 global IT decision-makers at organisations with 2,500 or more employees. 80% of respondents indicated that performance and availability are important issues, ranking above security and cost- effectiveness. Despite the clear importance of availability, 96% of IT decision-makers surveyed across the globe had experienced at least one outage in the past three years. These IT decision-makers also said that 51% of outages – when an organisation’s services are systems are unavailable – are avoidable. Further, 53% of brownouts – when an organisation’s services remain available but aren’t operating at an optimal level – are also avoidable. 75% of IT leaders said performing preventative maintenance was one of the most important ways to prevent downtime and 74% said proactive monitoring is key to detecting and addressing problems immediately. www.logicmonitor.com Information security Netwrix’s 2020 Data Risk & Security Report revealed that data storage is the most problematic stage for British organisations. The study aimed to find out how organisations treat their sensitive and regulated data during each stage of its lifecycle to identify potential security gaps. Even though the vast majority of respondents (91%) were sure that their sensitive data was stored securely, 27% of organisations discovered it outside of designated secure locations in the past 12 months. The data was left overexposed for days (33%) or weeks (22%). http://netwrix.com AWARDS 2020 08 October 2020 See page 44

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