An expert from Sophos believes that complacency is one of the biggest threats to the cybersecurity of enterprises.<\/p>\n
Karl-Heinz Warum, a vice-president at Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security<\/a>, \u00a0says companies are not taking threats seriously enough and make the mistake of thinking they are not big enough to be targeted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe major concern is companies don\u2019t take it seriously,\u201d said Warum. \u201cThe new gold is data and companies don\u2019t realise how to protect it.<\/p>\n \u201cThey leave the gold on the table and keep their fingers crossed that nobody will steal it, but that’s not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n He said some cybercriminals equip themselves with a laptop and busy themselves phishing and are quickly successful. All of a sudden they get all the data they want.<\/p>\n \u201cEven the big companies didn’t realise that cybercrime is going to the next level,\u201d said Warum. \u201cBut the criminals don’t care how or where they steal the data \u2013 it\u2019s their business.<\/p>\n \u201cThe sad thing is when you read the newspaper it\u2019s always mentioned if Microsoft is attacked or Amazon is attacked. Then everybody thinks it’s just the big ones that get hit so \u2018it won\u2019t be me\u2019.<\/p>\n He added that very often the cybercriminals are the ones using the most sophisticated approaches with the security of enterprises woefully inadequate.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bad guys are using the latest and greatest technology,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes if we look at the protection of an end-user, it looks like they are going with a knife to a gunfight.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this year in June, Sophos was named as a Leader in Gartner Inc.\u2019s \u2018Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls)<\/a>\u2019 and in July as a Visionary in Gartner Inc.\u2019s \u2018Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.<\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n In June this year, NSS Labs<\/a> rated Sophos XG Firewall<\/a> as one of the best performing in the industry in its Next Generation Firewall Group Test Report<\/a> . The XG Firewall was \u2018recommended\u2019 as one of the top three products for security effectiveness. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An expert from Sophos believes that complacency is one of the biggest threats to the cybersecurity of enterprises. Karl-Heinz Warum, a vice-president at Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, \u00a0says companies are not taking threats seriously enough and make the mistake of thinking they are not big enough to be targeted. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26614,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions\/26614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}