As the holiday season starts to ramp up businesses are being warned about the need to secure their IT defences against the onslaught of hackers who are ready to take advantage of skeleton staff running IT departments over the holidays.
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According to Michael Hamelin, chief security architect with Tufin Technologies, the security lifecycle management specialist the Christmas and New Year - holiday periods are the times when the heavyduty hackers come out to play.
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