Defence Online

The importance of cybersecurity – and why ‘back to basics’ is the best approach

Homeland November 4, 2019

Writing for Defence Online, Jon Fielding, Managing Director EMEA, Apricorn examines why keeping things simple and doing the basics represents the best solution in the world of cybersecurity. Organisations in the defence sector may, by the very nature of their business, be more security-centric than those in other industries, but they ...

Remote working: don’t block, enable

Homeland May 8, 2019

Jon Fielding, Managing Director, EMEA at secure data storage company, Apricorn, writes for Defence Online about the security risks posed by remote working and what steps can be taken to avoid potential security breaches.  Like businesses in other highly regulated industries, defence organisations are having to tread an increasingly precarious line between data availability and data security. More and more people are ...

Digital transformation: where are the chinks in your armour?

November 9, 2018

This year’s data spillage at the US Marine Corps Forces Reserve, which laid bare personal details of 21,000 marines, sailors and citizens, and the leak at India’s defence ministry that exposed sensitive data on a number of soldiers, are a stark reminder that even organisations in the most security conscious ...

‘Extreme’ USB supports effective C2 in a jungle environment

Land May 23, 2018

“Jungle is neutral. It attacks everything, and attacks it very effectively. Having kit that works as well in that environment as in the office is priceless.”  Steve Heaword, Trials Director, Crib Gogh  Keeping mission data secure, while equipping soldiers with the timely and accurate intelligence needed to carry out mission-critical actions, is a significant challenge in jungle environments.   Interested parties in the UK recently completed a unique tropical trials project, run ...