More than two-thirds (70%) of UK businesses have been the victim of a successful network security attack in the last year and 65% have been the victim of at least one ransomware attack in the last 12 months, according to new research from Barracuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These findings were released in a new report titled: The state of network security in 2021<\/em>.\u00a0Commissioned by Barracuda, the research surveyed 100 UK IT decision-makers responsible for their organisation\u2019s networking, public cloud and security to get their perspectives on cloud adoption, working from home, security concerns and a variety of issues and challenges related to cybersecurity risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tim Jefferson, SVP, Engineering for Data, Networks and Application Security, Barracuda: \u201cOrganisations are experiencing a high level of network breaches and facing ongoing connectivity and security challenges as they adapt to hybrid work environments.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The data revealed that a significant 80% of respondents with company-issued devices share their home Internet connection with other members of their household, posing a significant security risk. Furthermore, 34% of UK companies do not issue company devices and instead operated a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy and an additional 43% of companies do issue company devices, but still allow BYOD for some use cases such as email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than two-thirds (70%) of UK businesses have been the victim of a successful network security attack in the last year and 65% have been the victim of at least one ransomware attack in the last 12 months, according to new research from Barracuda. These findings were released in a new report titled: The state of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":57755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,140,93],"tags":[14311,14280,4969,564,278,2318,54,16486,5006,7465],"class_list":["post-57754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-networking","category-top-stories","tag-barracuda","tag-barracuda-networks","tag-cyberattack","tag-cybersecurity","tag-network","tag-network-security","tag-security","tag-the-state-of-network-security-in-2021","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57758,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57754\/revisions\/57758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}