The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has published a Final Rule directive which requires the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ‘to develop a new or modified Reliability Standard that addresses supply chain risk management for industrial control systems
A study, conducted by Countercept by MWR InfoSecurity, has found that 33 percent of IT professionals spoken with believe they do not have the skills, people or technology to identify the attacks that matter.
New research conducted by Beaming shows that cyber security breaches cost UK companies £34.1 billion last year, with bills for managing malware and data theft incidents amounting to £7.5 billion and £6.2 billion respectively.
The International Society of Automation has published the second edition of its best-selling book on industrial automation and control system security. ‘Industrial Automation and Control System Security Principles’, by By Ronald L. Krutz, PhD, PE, became ISA’s best-selling publication
Jason Collier looks at the difficulties that SMBs often experience when developing IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans and claims that switching to a hyperconverged approach will solve many of the issues.
Pokémon GO is a virtual world game app which is exploding in popularity around the world, but businesses need to make employees aware of potential security issues and need to manage its activation on work devices. Paul Ducklin explains…
Despite acute awareness of the millions of dollars in annual costs, and the business risks posed by external Internet threats, security leaders highlight the lack of staff expertise and technology as a key reason that these attacks are unchecked, according to results from a new Ponemon Institute study sponsored by BrandProtect.
Joe DiPietro shows why simple manual configuration errors are one of the biggest threats to organizations’ security, and looks at how to minimize these mistakes.
Vodafone has published its fourth annual IoT Barometer Report: a global survey of business sentiment regarding innovation and investment in the Internet of Things, the term used to describe the evolution of a new generation of devices and processes using connected network intelligence to deliver advanced capabilities.
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