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CLOUD & CYBER at a rate of almost 20 % per year . One of the key benefits of a hybrid approach is the aforementioned ability to link or upgrade legacy systems with cloud services , for instance to leverage increased computing power for existing problems or , crucially , to back them up should the worst happen .
Disaster resilience through the cloud Companies face threats through a number of avenues , from cyber attacks to natural disasters or data centre accidents . Emboldened by COVID-19 and remote working , ransomware attacks in particular have become commonplace . Hafnium , for instance , exploits flaws and stolen passwords to gain access to attackers , while video game developer CD PROJEKT RED suffered an attack that forced it to cut off access to internal resources , severely hampering the release of updates for its latest game . While authorities eventually catch up to attackers ( as we saw with the disruption of the EMOTET malware ),
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