40% of Businesses Report Increased Volume, Severity, Scope of Attacks in the Last 12 Months

Despite being over a year into remote working, security remains a key concern for respondents both globally and in India.

While 38 percent of respondents from India continue to be very concerned about the security risks while working remotely, globally, this figure stands at 39 percent.

This is just one of the key insights from the 2021 Thales Global Data Threat Report, a commissioned study conducted by 451 Research, which reveals that managing security risks is undoubtedly getting more challenging, with almost 40 percent of respondents from India reporting an increase in the volume, severity, and/or scope of cyber-attacks in the last 12 months.

For respondents from India, malware (56 percent) is the leading source of security attacks followed by ransomware (53 percent), and phishing and credential stuffing (both 43 percent).

IISER Bhopal Researchers Identify Mechanism of Breast Cancer Progression

Researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal have shown the mechanism by which breast cancer cells proliferate and spread. Their findings have important implications in designing therapeutic interventions for breast cancer. 

The IISER team studied the regulation of one particular gene called ‘ESRP1’ in breast cancer. The researchers found that there is a difference in the expression of the ESRP1 gene between normal and tumor tissues of breast cancer patients. The researchers explore the regulatory mechanism behind ESRP1 up regulation in breast tumor tissues. 

In India, breast cancer accounted for 11.1 percent of cancer deaths in 2020, resulting in the need for aggressive research into understanding and treating this malady.

Slack Transforms Salesforce Customer 360 for Sales, Service, Marketing, and Analytics

Salesforce has collaborated with Slack to introduce Slack-First Customer 360, a single platform for connecting employees, customers, partners with the apps and workflows they need to get work done with a single source of truth for their business.

Nine out of 10 companies plan to combine remote and onsite work going forward, but only 33 percent feel prepared to navigate this new hybrid work world. Slack-First Customer 360 is the answer, with Slack as the hub that empowers everyone in an organization to communicate, collaborate, and take action on information from across Salesforce and all the other business apps, systems, and partners they use.

With these new pre-built integrations between Slack and Salesforce, every department — such as sales, service, and marketing — can collaborate in channels that unite teams and streamline workflows built around CRM data, giving them a single source of truth for their business and a single, shared view of the customer. Business processes can be automated in Slack to make work simple, productive, flexible, and pleasant. And with Slack Connect, companies can now work securely with external partners, vendors and customers, driving stronger relationships and faster results.