connection with our colleagues and teams. However, the tide is now shifting. As more professionals return to the office, we’re still seeing Teams or Zoom meetings being scheduled for things that could be more efficiently and effectively handled through a brief message or email – resulting in less disruption to professionals’ actual working time.” www.robertwaltersgroup.com ... INTROVERTS DO IT REMOTELY Research by Apogee Corporation suggests that remote meeting technology helps introverts to overcome their inhibitions, with nearly one-in-three (30%) saying it enables them to communicate more confidently. Almost half (43%) of introverts say they feel able to voice ideas and feelings more freely when remote, compared to 28% of extroverts. In the survey of 1,001 employees in mid-size businesses with 500+ staff, 84% of extroverts say they are unable to work productively when remote. In contrast, 86% of introverts say they see no productivity improvement when working in the office. apogeecorp.com ... REMOTE WORKERS ARE WEAKEST LINK Almost two thirds (63%) of IT security decision-makers in the UK and US expect mobile/remote workers to expose their organisation to the risk of a data breach. More than half (55%) claim remote workers have done so knowingly in the last 12 months, according to a survey by Apricorn, manufacturer of softwarefree, 256-bit AES XTS hardwareencrypted USB drives. Three quarters (73%) of decision-makers believe remote employees lack the skills and technology needed to keep data safe (up from 55% in last year’s survey). ... TENABLE BRINGS VISIBILITY TO OT AT WEST BURTON ENERGY West Burton Energy has cut threatdetection alerts by 98% and improved efficiency by 87% after using Tenable OT Security to bring visibility, security and control to its operational technology (OT). The company’s Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) plant and 49 MW battery energy storage facility delivers 1,333 MW of power to the National Grid, enough electricity to power 1.5 million homes and businesses. Since deploying Tenable OT Security, purpose-built to safeguard converged IT and OT industrial environments, West Burton Energy has reduced the time and resources needed manually to manage its asset inventory by more than 200 hours per year, while also creating efficiencies in the identification, mitigation and remediation of OT vulnerabilities. Tom Keyworth, C&I Engineer at West Burton Energy, said: “With Tenable OT Security tuned and trained to prevent false positives we’ve reduced the number of reported events by 98%, resulting in tremendous time savings. What used to take two days per week to manage now takes only a few hours, and we’ve improved efficiency by 87%. Rather than chasing false positives, the team can focus on remediating the security alerts that put operations at the greatest risk.” West Burton Energy is also using Tenable Nessus, built into Tenable OT Security, to scan Windows servers and network switches and other IT equipment. Initiating a scan across the entire Windows environment helps the team discover vulnerabilities, for example, from the impact of an OEM’s latest release or a version of software that is out of date. www.tenable.com ... SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING GUIDE FOR SMES ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accounts) has published a new guide to help SMEs with their sustainability reporting. Co-authored by Sharon Machado, head of sustainable business, and Aaron Saw, head of corporate reporting insights – financial, ACCA’s Sustainability reporting – SME guide contains advice on compiling sustainability-related data and reporting increasingly demanded by regulators and stakeholders. Sharon Machado said: “The creation and use of sustainability-related information helps SMEs, their advisers and stakeholders to see and take advantage of their opportunities and manage their risks. This will put SMEs in a much stronger position financially, making it easier to attract investment and obtain preferential terms of trade with suppliers. In the battle for talent, it will help them recruit and retain highcalibre employees.” www.accaglobal.com 5 www.managedITmag.co.uk NEWS LOGRHYTHM HELPING TO PRESERVE UK COMPUTING HERITAGE The National Museum of Computing (TNMoC), an independent charity housing the world’s largest collection of functional historic computers, has secured sponsorship from LogRhythm to help it preserve the UK’s computing heritage and inspire future generations to pursue careers in computing and cybersecurity. As part of its sponsorship, LogRhythm recently held its Customer Advisory Council and Partner Advisory Council at the museum located in the grounds of Bletchley Park and home to machines like Enigma, Lorenz the working Turing-Welchman Bombe and Colossus. Kev Eley, VP UKI & Europe at LogRhythm, said: “As soon as I stepped through the doors, I knew TNMoC was a good fit for LogRhythm. As the birthplace of British cybersecurity, it truly brings the history of computing to life and understands the importance of making the field accessible to everyone.” LogRhythm helps security teams stop breaches by turning disconnected data and signals from diverse log and threat intelligence sources into trustworthy insights. logrhythm.com continued... LogRhythm’s Kev Eley with Jacqui Garrad, Museum Director at The National Museum of Computing. SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING – SME GUIDE
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