News in the Channel - issue #39

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Fighting back

The number of ransomware attacks continues to rise in the UK, presenting threats to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. This means resellers and MSPs need to make this a priority in security provision.

In any statistics you look at regarding cybersecurity, the one constant is that the number of attacks is rising across the board. The advent of AI has helped to accelerate this, making it easier for would-be criminals to set up an attack. Of the myriad types of threats out there, ransomware is often cited as the most common. Ransomware is common because of its rate of success – in terms of breaching a business’ defence and getting a

enough – and more are turning to hybrid cooling solutions as a result. Read more on p38. Elsewhere in this issue, we look at the opportunities that infrastructure- as-a-service for small- to medium-sized businesses provides to resellers. As

Dan Parton

digital operations become more complex, so does managing the

infrastructure of it – and this can go beyond the skills that are in a SMB, which often don’t employ IT specialists. As a result, more a turning to IaaS for cost efficiency and to support remote work, business continuity and faster application deployment.

ransom paid. This is why resellers and managed service providers need to give this priority when providing security for customers.

Read more on p26. Another growing opportunity for resellers revolved around digital employee experience (DEX). Increasingly, DEX is seen as a must have to ensure that employees are as productive as possible wherever they are working and to keep talented employees happy. Read more on p22. As always, I hope you enjoy the issue. News in the Channel is for everyone in the channel, so if you have a topic you would like to see covered in a future issue of the magazine – or have a press release or opinion piece you would like to submit for publication – please drop me a line at dan@newsinthechannel.com. n

But there are various approaches that can be applied to help ensure that customers are kept safe from a ransomware attack – and to mitigate the effects of one should a breach occur. Read more on p32. While AI has helped to fuel the number of cybersecurity attacks, it has also brought benefits to businesses too and many are now adopting it to help provide efficiencies and greater speed to operations. But to do this requires a lot of computing power, which puts pressure on data centres. As a result, it also means that how the data centre is cooled needs to be thought about as traditional air cooling may not be

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