Business Continuity stories - Page 12

Barracuda warns that unpatched firewalls and weak accounts drove 90% of 2025 ransomware attacks, as threats spread in mere hours.

Alison Stone has been appointed incoming Chair of Scottish Continuity, with her role to be confirmed at this month's Resilient Scotland conference.

Cyber fears are stalling digital plans for UK SMEs, with 42% naming security as the main barrier despite strong ambitions for 2026.

UK founders tip most startups to be AI‑first by 2030 as they swallow a mounting 16% 'trust tax' on security and digital verification.

UK's cyber agency warns ageing infrastructure and SMEs face rising attack risk, urging urgent resilience upgrades and stronger regulation.

UK urges small firms to 'lock the door' on cyber crime as attacks cost businesses GBP £14.7 billion a year and basic defences lag.

F5 and Scality deepen their tie-up, fusing security and S3 object storage to bolster hybrid AI workloads across sites and clouds.

RETN has activated a resilient Tallinn-Cēsis backbone link, boosting Baltic route diversity and keeping traffic flowing during fibre faults.

Water Direct unveils WaterTight service and resilience index as report warns UK businesses face rising costs from water supply disruptions.

Most enterprises are unprepared for HPE's 'Great Virtualization Reset' even as two‑thirds plan major strategy changes within two years.

Zoho marks 30th anniversary by topping one million paying customers and 150 million users, with 2025 revenue up 20% year on year.

Big firms edge away from VMware after Broadcom deal, shifting select workloads to cloud while keeping core systems in place for now.

Spitfire launches dual-IMSI multi-network IoT SIM for UK firms, promising seamless failover, tighter security and tariffs from GBP £1 a month.

DryvIQ launches Nasuni connector to unify governance, migration and AI-ready insight across dispersed unstructured enterprise content.

Routes Healthcare links Sage 200 and cloud systems via BPA tech to automate care, cut dev effort and strengthen continuity across the North.

AI tools and shadow IT push information governance to the endpoint, forcing organisations to align policy with device-level reality.

Most ransomware-hit firms now refuse to pay, as Arctic Wolf reports an 11-fold surge in data-only extortion and booming remote access abuse.

New LockBit 5.0 ransomware hits Windows, Linux and ESXi in single campaigns, widening blast radius across mixed and virtualised environments.

ManageEngine adds causal intelligence and AI agents to Site24x7, promising faster incident triage and automated remediation for hybrid IT ops.

Data-only extortion soars 11-fold as attackers 'log in instead of break in', abusing remote access tools for faster, stealthier raids.