Microsoft and Vodafone announce a collaboration to offer Italian companies Microsoft 365 Business, the solution of Modern Workplace, designed for small and medium enterprises, which integrates the Office 365 and Windows 10 technologies, with advanced solutions for managing the devices in complete safety, to ensure maximum protection of company data and support for adaptation to the new general regulation for the protection of personal data (GDPR).
A coherent collaboration with Vodafone's strategy to help SMEs in their process of digitization and adaptation to the new regulation, which combines the reliability and quality of the Vodafone network, with Microsoft's managed security solutions, to offer customers maximum protection in traffic and data management.
Vodafone is the first operator to make available in its marketplace the Microsoft 365 solution, whose goal is precisely to meet the needs of the new way of working of employees of small and medium-sized businesses, based increasingly on collaboration, on mobility in full security with evolved tools and devices, increasing productivity and creativity not only individual, but also collective, anywhere and at any time (https://cloud-apps.vodafone.it/home).
The data of the last report Clusit (Italian Association for Informatics Security) are clear: cyberattacks have grown on a global scale of 240% compared to 2011 and affect more and more crucial sectors, such as politics, finance and private citizens, who in the 2017 they were victims of cybercrime on a very large scale. In Italy there are about 10 billion euros in damages caused by cybercrime, every 5 minutes an Italian is a victim of cybercrime, and SMEs are often completely unaware of the risks they run.
Hence the need to help companies in our country to guarantee the security of their customers' data, especially at a time when, in view of the European application of the GDPR, in Italy it is estimated that only a out of ten companies will comply with the new regulation by the date of its application, that approximately 50% of companies have taken action to comply with the new regulation, and that 87% of companies plan to increase their cybersecurity budget in the next three years. (Source: Information and Privacy School Management Observatory of Politecnico di Milano, 6 February 2018).
