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remote working . This meant staff members could no longer quickly check or validate the legitimacy of an email , which in turn opened up a new area of vulnerability for [ attackers ] to exploit ,” he explains , adding that , with people working from home , where they would often be surrounded by family and children in particular , “ we have seen a surge in social engineering attacks focusing on the children of target individuals . For example , attackers are sending messages to children where they offer to buy them certain items in games such as Fortnite in exchange for running a file on a parent ’ s computer .”
It ’ s a level of vulnerability that the data centre industry ( and pretty much any other industry where enterprises host their information in the cloud ) certainly hasn ’ t been 100 % prepared to meet and , as a result , the breaches and successful cyber espionage campaigns have kept on coming .
“ While the firewall actively mitigates threats , it is not immune to successful attacks from bad actors , and once hackers have navigated that protection layer , they can access sensitive corporate and customer data ,” says Fredrik Forslund , VP of Cloud and Data Centre Erasure Solutions at Blancco . “ Data privacy is a mega trend and high-profile data breaches have become a far too common occurrence .”
In the scramble to meet this newly evolved threat landscape , cyber security teams are leveraging new , more powerful tools - particularly those that leverage artificial intelligence ( AI ) - in order to neutralise more threats from more sources and manage an ever-expanding
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