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Users of industrial robots from manufacturing to healthcare are unprepared for the real risk of a hacking attack, warns a cyber security expert. With the worldwide number of robots in smart factories now topping a million, Ross Thomson cites a lack of awareness as the reason most operators haven’t tackled the threat.
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The Business Continuity Institute, in association with Mimecast, has published the BCI Information Security Report 2017. The report provides a benchmark of how organizations handle sensitive data and how resilient they are when it comes to data protection.
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A new cyber security report from Vodafone, ‘Cyber Security: The Innovation Accelerator’, highlights a strong link between how cyber security is used and business success, with 86 percent of high-growth companies seeing information security as an enabler of new business opportunities.
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Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic techniques before the arrival of quantum computers, as cryptographers Tanja Lange (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) describe in a paper in the journal Nature.
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Network visibility is often the root cause of difficulties during information security incidents. Keith Bromley explains why this is the case and what organizations can do about the issue.
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Survey results have been published by Unisys which show a trend away from traditional on-premises data centers / centres towards cloud-based hosting.
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Councils, schools and government offices were among global public sector and education organizations hit badly by DNS attacks last year – with nearly half reporting dealing with the issue cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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NIST has announced the release of its latest practice guide, ‘Data Integrity: Recovering from Ransomware and Other Destructive Events, SP 1800-11’. As a draft NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide, comments and feedback are being sought.
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The Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security aims to help security professionals understand which emerging technologies are ready for mainstream use, and which are still years away from productive deployments for most organizations.
