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When it comes to fighting cyber crime, the emphasis is overwhelmingly on prevention. 

However, as the volume of attacks against businesses grows significantly, organisations are struggling to prevent wave after wave of attacks

Business applications are essential in today's world of work. In a world that’s always on, always pushing for the next insight, the next edge and the next innovation which gives us an advantage over our competition, business applications have helped us reimagine the workplace.

Over the previous couple of weeks, we have released a mini-series of articles which aimed to highlight the benefits of taking a new perspective on your organisations cyber security.

Over the course of the previous few articles SES has outlined the strategies attackers use to breach your systems and networks to steal your valuable data.

Following on from the previous article detailing Cyber Security terminology (if you missed the article you can find it here). This article details eight of the most popular attack types malicious individuals use to breach their targets.

It’s within everyone’s reach to read up on the vulnerabilities affecting their organisation, there are numerous articles all over the internet exploring vulnerabilities and breaking down the latest attacks.

In this day and age, the continuity of your business is constantly at risk from factors outside of your control. Data security incidents are on the rise and attackers are continuously searching for new ways to bypass your defences and breach your systems causing damage and disruption.

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) involves a prolonged and targeted cyber attack in which a malicious individual gains access to your network whilst remaining undetected for a significant period of time.

In a recent study conducted by insurance broker Gallagher, UK councils have reported being targeted by more than 263 million cyber attacks in the first half of 2019 alone, equating to 800 attacks every hour.

Worrying figures released recently by data security firm Egress revealed that 52% of UK businesses are still not fully compliant with GDPR regulations, more than 18 months on from their introduction.

For nearly two decades, SES has been protecting over 2,000 software developers, IP Owners, distributors and end users in over 40 countries across the world, and our levels of Customer Service, Cost Effectiveness and Security have enabled us to become the fastest growing Software Escrow Provider in Europe.

When we talk to people, two of the first questions we always get asked are: “what is escrow?” and “do I need it in my business?”.