06 September 2024

Netskope Threat Labs’ latest research report, which focuses on cloud app threats in the manufacturing sector, highlights an increase in AI usage within corporate environments, and an increasing diversity in the methodologies of attackers targeting the sector.

When compared with the 2023 manufacturing report, in 2024, the popularity of Microsoft OneDrive in the manufacturing sector grew from 43% to 58%, however, its impact in terms of malware distribution decreased to 22% from 34%. While the top three cloud applications for malware downloads remained the same, the malicious exploitation of GitHub doubled in 2024, compared to 2023.

06 September 2024

John Diamond, Solutions Architect, Park Place Technologies

In this digitally enabled hybrid and remote working world, it’s hard to recall the days when fixed Wide Area Networks (WAN) universally delivered our everyday enterprise network user experience by solidly moving data over a single, private network fixed grade connection.

Back in the early 2010s when online collaboration tools, video conferencing and VOIP were in their infancy, some forward-thinking vendors including Viptela (now part of Cisco) and SilverPeak (Aruba/HP) started pioneering a Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) as an alternate decentralised approach for networking that would allow for intelligent routing of traffic over multiple connections.