With semi-conductor shortages expected to last until 2023 and the global supply chain feeling the pinch as the demand for “chips” surges in an increasingly smart world, there are very few industries left unaffected.

Cyber-criminals are increasingly viewing education institutions as easy prey. No surprise then that the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently warned of a spike in the targeting of schools, universities and colleges.

An unwelcome repercussion of employees snapping up laptops for home working ahead of the coronavirus lockdown has been an even bigger spike in cyber-criminal activity.

Cyber hackers are preying on the public’s fear of Covid-19 to spread their own harmful viruses. According to multiple cybersecurity experts, the spike in phishing techniques, fraudulently claiming to come from an official source is the worst in years.

Updated: Reading 7 April 2020 – Up to a fifth of the UK’s workforce are likely to be off sick at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Government’s best estimations.

Reading, 17 January 2020 – Since the early 2000s, medical professionals have increasingly been choosing electronic patient records over paper. Although digital records are certainly easier to access and harder to lose or destroy, they are by no means immune to disaster – and organisations have more to worry about than just fires and floods.

Disaster recovery (DR) has historically been out of reach to some organisations. The need for expensive equipment or services outweighed the perceived…