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Start-up cybersecurity brand launched to provide global protection services to SMEs
Kyocera Cyber – a new, specialist business operating from Kyocera UK’ s headquarters in Reading – has been launched. Backed by the wider Kyocera family, the boutique brand has invested from the ground up in enterprise-grade architecture to build an ultra-resilient, next-generation managed security operations centre( M-SOC), which will protect customers against new adversaries.
Kyocera Cyber focuses on a tailored, comprehensive offering with an emphasis on managed security services and personalised, collaborative, value-driven relationships with customers. This ensures a powerful alternative to generic, onesize-fits-all cybersecurity provision.
The new brand brings together Kyocera’ s existing suite of security services, alongside a number of new offerings. The backbone of this is the AI-driven, hyperautomated M-SOC, which offers 24 / 7 global coverage and covers all bases, from proactive defence through to incident management and recovery. Its remit includes monitoring, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability assessment, among a range of other responsibilities, with the goal of delivering a stronger security posture for its customers.
To accelerate their services, Kyocera Cyber has formed a collaboration with Torq, an innovative cybersecurity provider that delivers an AI-powered hyperautomation platform for security operations teams.
The Torq autonomous AI platform integrates with Kyocera Cyber’ s proprietary architecture to ensure richer security operations. Torq delivers highly effective and precise automated alert handling and response, ensuring maximum protection for Kyocera’ s enterprise customers and frees-up Kyocera’ s security analysts to focus on proactive threat hunting and case escalations.
Majority of UK workers demand flexible hours as four-day week goes mainstream
The UK workforce is bending the workplace rulebook, expecting greater autonomy, innovative technology and benefits like the four-day week, according to hybrid meeting technology leader, Owl Labs, in its annual State of Hybrid Work Report.
The report, based on a nationally representative survey of 2,000 full time employees across the UK, demonstrates that a flexibility-first approach is the main driver of career decisions and satisfaction at work. The majority( 93 %) of UK workers would take action if they were no longer allowed to work remotely or hybrid, while the top reason employees are looking for a new job is in pursuit of a better work / life balance, consistent with 2024( 50 %) and up from 41 % in 2023.
The traditional 9-to-5 office routine is no longer the default for the UK workforce. Instead, employees are calling for more flexible schedules and jobs that fit with the realities of their lives, with almost half( 44 %) prepared to reject any role that does not offer flexible hours. This boundary has become stricter in the last year; in 2024, 39 % of employees said they would reject a job without flexible hours.
More than half( 51 %) now schedule personal appointments during work hours, with most( 41 %) taking up to an hour daily for these. Of those doing so, employees with caring responsibilities are more likely to consciously schedule appointments regularly during work hours( 26 %) compared to those without such responsibilities( 17 %).
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