In a business world where everything is dependent on applications and digital data, connectivity becomes even more crucial to maintain in the face of potential IT failures, human error and malicious attacks. By now, most business owners have heard the perils of a website outage and its impact on revenue, and therefore solutions that enable continuous uptime become essential.
Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its investigation into the activity of Hajime – a mysterious evolving Internet of Things (IoT) malware that builds a huge peer-to-peer botnet. The botnet has recently been propagating extensively, infecting multiple devices worldwide.
Over 80 percent of security professionals identify ‘people’ as the industry’s biggest challenge compared to technology and processes, according to the results of the second annual survey from The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP).
Rudimentary attacks, such as intrusion attempts, information gathering, and policy violations pose the greatest risk to midsized organizations, according to a recent cyber threat report by eSentire, Inc.
Vitaly Mzokov looks in detail at five emerging trends which are starting to effect virtualization security.
Disaster recovery is the number one application that organizations plan to migrate to the cloud (36 percent). DR is followed by file sharing (30 percent), data backup (30 percent) and data storage (29 percent). These are among the findings of ‘Cloud Adoption in 2017’, a research study conducted by Zetta.
Anurag Kahol examines the problems faced by cloud encryption solutions and discusses how to achieve data protection without sacrificing cloud app functionality.
Your cloud infrastructure security will be managed by your cloud provider but the applications, workloads, and data are your responsibility. Oliver Pinson-Roxburgh looks at four areas that should be considered.
FireMon has released the results from a survey that assessed the views of 350 IT security professionals on the importance of firewalls in the fight to prevent data breaches.
The entire Continuity Central website is scanned daily by Sucuri to ensure that no malware exists within the site. This means that you can browse with complete confidence.
Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
