SES Secure's Blogs

According to the 2018: Risk Value Report published by NTT Security, half of UK firms are still not prepared to invest in proactive measures to secure their organisation against cyber threats.

It’s easy to discount Escrow without fully considering the risks of not protecting your most critical applications. If you were unable to access your CRM, Logistics or Finance applications, what would the implications be to your business?

Cyber attacks and breaches can happen to any organisation at any time, causing significant damage. Therefore, it is essential that your incident response plans are effective enough to respond to, contain and eradicate a breach as quickly as possible, limiting their impact.

Here at SES we see Software Escrow as a fundamental protection, ensuring your business’s continuity. Escrow provides assurances that you can retain access to your business critical applications and that your business will remain operational in the event the supplier of your applications is unable to support them.

Over the past 12 months we’ve experienced solid growth and it wouldn’t have been possible without the continued support of you, our valuable customers.

Cyber criminals are always searching for easy targets, prodding and probing organisations to find weaknesses in their security which can be used to gain access.

As your organisation procures more third party applications to perform critical business functions and streamline operations, it is increasingly important for you to ensure that these applications are protected with Escrow.

It is common practice for your clients to request Escrow as part of contract negotiations with you when licensing your applications to perform critical business functions and streamline their operations because Escrow supports the licence and protects their investment.

To your clients, Escrow is seen as a prerequisite when licensing critical applications from you as it secures their investments and guarantees access to the critical applications they depend on.

The majority of businesses in 2018 rely on applications to provide critical business functions such as managing customers, logistics and finances etc. These key applications have become integral to the way businesses operate.

Despite an overall decrease in fraud and computer misuse figures for 2017, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that incidents involving computer misuse and malware against businesses are way up.

With just 11 weeks to go until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, this article aims to banish the GDPR jargon and give you the basic information you need to ensure you are prepared for the incoming regulations.