The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a statement confirming that a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data may have compromised the personal information of many current and former Federal employees.
Companies are putting their customers’ data at risk because IT teams do not have the expertise or time to deploy today’s complicated IT security products, a new survey report from Lieberman Software Corporation claims.
To ensure the availability of high performance, mission critical IT services, IT departments need both solid monitoring capabilities and dedicated IT resources to resolve issues as they occur. But even with the right tools in place, when an abundance of alerts and alarms start streaming in, it can quickly become overwhelming
In a new IDC Energy Insights survey 74 percent of utilities indicated that public cloud is their dominant, long-term platform strategy to meet IT needs. The 2014 CloudView Survey study provides context for understanding why cloud remains an area of heightened attention at the highest levels of utility organizations.
The Ponemon Institute has released its annual Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, sponsored by IBM. According to the benchmark study of 350 companies spanning 11 countries, the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million1 representing a 23 percent increase since 2013.
A survey of 200 UK organizations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, Inc., has found that one in ten organizations do not think that cyber security is a priority for them, with a further 61 percent confirming it is not seen as a top three priority.
The average cost of the most severe online security breaches for big businesses now starts at £1.46 million: up from £600,000 in 2014, according to the UK government’s annual Information Security Breaches Survey.
Many companies still lack the means or motivation to protect themselves from malicious insiders; but the effects of insider threats are simply too big to ignore.
Dave Larson, CTO at Corero, explains why DDoS attacks are often a diversionary tactic, allowing other attack vectors to be placed on the network unnoticed.
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