6 01732 759725 NEWS is home to 300 military machines including Little Willie, the world’s oldest surviving tank. Head of Finance Paul Dolan said: “We have been a Sage 50 user for over 20 years but wanted to modernise our accounting systems and reporting. We carried out an extensive appraisal of accounting systems and found iplicit to be the best in terms of functionality and cost. The fact that a number of the team are based nearby in Poole is a real bonus.” Named Best Mid-Market and Enterprise Software at the Accounting Excellence Awards and Enterprise Accounting/ERP System of the Year at the AccountingWEB Best Products Awards, iplicit boasts several features useful to nonprofits such as flexible financial reporting for different stakeholders, the ability to track grants and funds and the automated application of partial VAT. www.iplicit.com … Opportunistic hackers looking for ‘open windows’ Ben Owen, intelligence expert and star of the TV show Hunted, says that businesses are in an ‘arms race’ with hackers and need to make sure they use advanced technology like AI to bolster their defences. The former spy issued his warning at BT’s Secure Tomorrow cybersecurity festival where BT was showing quantum secure communications and AI cyber defence capabilities that it says will help businesses stay one step ahead of hackers. These include BT’s security platform Eagle-i, which uses AI to predict, detect and neutralise cyberattacks, and machine learning to help improve its knowledge of threats. Owen said: “Businesses are connecting more devices and adopting new AI tools every day; but hackers are using the same tech to break their defences. It’s an AI arms race that companies can’t afford to lose.” BT says that it now logs 2,000 signals of potential cyber-attacks every second, equating to 200 million per day, and that the number of new malicious IP scanners carrying out digital surveillance of UK organisations recorded across BT’s networks grew by more than 1200% in the 12 months from July 2023 to July 2024. Tris Morgan, Managing Director – Security at BT, said: “Today, every business is a digital business, and our data shows that every 90 seconds hackers are checking connected devices to find a way in – like opportunistic burglars looking for an open window. Tools like AI provide new routes of attack, but they can also be the first line of defence. At BT, we’re constantly evolving our network security to stay one step ahead and protect more than a million businesses, day in, day out.” www.bt.com/about The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset Ben Owen continued...
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