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CrowdStrike warns UK businesses of impending
cybersecurity crisis
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CrowdStrike, has issued
a stark warning to British
businesses, telling them to crack
down on lax remote working policies
now or risk catastrophic exposure
at the hands of adversaries after
lockdown is over.
Its latest research, in co-operation
with YouGov, has found that over half
(52%) of people in the UK working
from home do so on their own
personal devices, creating potential
backdoors into corporate systems
for adversaries. CrowdStrike has
also seen a 100x increase in
COVID-19 related malicious files
circulating in February and March,
yet two thirds (65%) of remote
workers in the UK say they had no
extra training against cyberattacks.
Mike Sentonas, CTO at CrowdStrike,
said: “Most companies had to
improvise in order to keep their
operations running during lockdown.
But the rush of creating a fully
remote workforce has meant that
proper cybersecurity practices
have fallen by the wayside. We have
seen a rapid increase in attempted
cyberattacks by criminals taking
advantage of the situation.”
Despite the rapid evolution and
expansion of the cybersecurity threat
landscape during the pandemic, only
a third (33%) of respondents believe
that cyberattacks are more likely now
than before the lockdown. Similarly,
only 6% of respondents believe their
personal devices are less secure
than corporate ones.
SENTINELONE IS HIGHEST RATED AND MOST
REVIEWED VENDOR FOR THE OVERALL RATING
CATEGORY IN 2020 GARTNER REPORT
entinelOne, an autonomous
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cybersecurity platform
company, has announced
that it has received the highest
overall rating and most verified
reviews for the overall rating category
in the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights
‘Voice of the Customer’: Endpoint
Detection and Response Solutions
report, based on 123 responses.
On a scale of one to five,
SentinelOne received the highest
overall rating of 4.8 and most
reviews among all vendors listed
in the overall rating category in the
report. SentinelOne also received
the highest score in individual
categories including product
capabilities (4.8 out of 5, based on
122 responses), evaluation and
contracting (4.8 out of 5, based
on 111 responses) and integration
and deployment (4.8 out of 5,
based on 123 responses), which
SentinelOne believe validates
the company’s unprecedented
customer satisfaction and global
market traction as the cybersecurity
platform of the future.
SentinelOne has experienced
record growth over the past
calendar year, increasing global
revenue by more than 104% and
capturing 134% net customer
retention rate as customers upsell
into more platform components.
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