BUSINESS FOCUS BUYER’SGUIDETO Business protection in2021

n our 2020 roundup of unified threat management (UTM) appliances (), we recommended that SMBs should cultivate a healthy sense of paranoia. That was just before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the UK in earnest – and the rest of the year proved to be a boom time for hackers. British ISP Beaming, which specialises in secure connections, reported that the average UK business was targeted by nearly 700,000 attacks in 2020, a 20% increase over the previous year. Even as social restrictions start to ease, there’s no reason to think these attacks will decrease any time in the