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A recent report by the UK gov ernment on cybercrime reveals 46 per cent of businesses that identified breaches or attacks in 2020 , experienced them at least on a weekly basis .
The number of attacks has risen considerably since 2017 – and the nature of breaches continues to evolve . This forces security experts to continually play cat and mouse in a swiftly expanding digital environment where vulnerabilities increase with the amount of technology connected to it .
CLOUD
The bigger they are , the harder they fall , or so it seems following the devastating breach recently suffered by Microsoft and the mid-December outage experienced by Google , the cause of which is yet to be officially confirmed .
While details are still emerging , the SolarWinds attack is the most critical of its kind in recent times . According to Microsoft , the hackers infiltrated a server used to build updates for the SolarWinds Orion Platform , a product used for IT infrastructure management .
FEBRUARY 2021