Holding onto skilled staff against a backdrop of record inflation was singled out as the industry's biggest challenge by attendees of last night's Rising Stars dinner..
The merits and drawbacks of private equity are taking on a new resonance in the channel following an influx of PE investment into UK resellers and MSPs.
Led by the likes of LDC, August Equity and Horizon Capital, private equity houses have made at least 18 platform investments and 72 add-on acquisitions of UK resellers or MSPs since the start of 2020, with activity accelerating in 2021, according to the CRN Private Equity Report.
As a consequence, they now back at least 69 UK resellers and MSPs, with no fewer than 38 PE houses on our radar boasting at least one UK reseller or MSP investment (see the top five here).
Socura addresses NHS’s cyber security challenges in a post-pandemic world
13th January 2021
Socura has launched an insights paper exploring the changing cyber security landscape in health and care organisations in the UK, with a specific focus on the NHS. With health and care organisations struggling to gain full visibility and control of their IT assets in the post-COVID era, this insights piece outlines the key steps needed to move beyond prevention, to detection and response, that enables vital digital change.
Marc Chang, CEO and Founder of Socura, explains: “
The proliferation of connected devices is exposing health trusts to the risk of “cyber physical” attacks, where virtual threats have a real world impact on patients. Coupled with resource and funding constraints, health and care organisations face widening visibility gaps, exposing them to ever more sophisticated, targeted threats.”