The annual cybersecurity report from Acronis has arrived, showing companies, IT managers, remote workers and more seriously struggling with cyber fitness, packing on the security vulnerability kilos after 18 months on the COVID couch.

Aruba, a division of HPE, is bringing networking fabric as a platform to the data centre near you with the world’s first distributed services switch. What this means is big savings, greater agility, superior networking, and more.

Ransomware has emerged as one of the defining cybersecurity threats of 2021, witth attacks increasing tenfold over the past year and the trend set to continue as cyberattackers see lucrative paydays from ransomware operations.

Cohesity's new security and governance services aim to help protect agains ransomware threats.

ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho, has announced the addition of data loss prevention for endpoints, anti-ransomware, and endpoint compliance capabilities to its unified endpoint management solution, Desktop Central.

Data management specialist Cohesity now offers disaster recovery as a service, with the option of using AWS as the recovery location for failover and failback.

Companies’ efforts to attract and recruit from a diverse talent pool are proving more successful than internal efforts to sustain diversity within the organisation, highlighting the complex challenges businesses face in order to build a diverse workforce – from a junior hire to tenured leadership, according to research by specialised talent solutions provider Robert Half.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire