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Fortinet has published its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. A key finding is that cyber criminals are building ‘an army of things’ that has the potential to impact the future of the digital economy.
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Recent cloud outages highlight the need for organizations to start designing for failure on public cloud services, says Databarracks.
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Multi-cloud adoption is now the recommended approach for cloud availability. Oliver Pinson-Roxburgh providers some pointers for those who are just starting to consider this option.
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A worrying number of UK businesses have no formal plan to protect their business from a cyber-attack and the number of companies preparing themselves has not improved from a year ago. This is according to a new survey report from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Barclays.
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DDoS attacks are a greater security threat to businesses in 2017 than ever before, and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) need to do something about it according to a new survey
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PwC has published the results of its 20th Global Survey of CEOs, which focuses specifically on the threats and opportunities facing the 781 private company CEOs who participated.
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Following the recent long-running outage at Amazon Web Services Continuity Central conducted a reader-survey to ascertain the level of impact and whether it will result in business continuity professionals reviewing their business continuity plans.
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By Jon Fielding
A new survey has identified mobile working as a major area of risk, with many companies uncertain about how to enforce adequate security policies and having no viable strategies in place.
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Organizations normally understand that employees are key to improving information security, but often focus on awareness of policies and procedures. Chantelle van Wyk explains why this approach is ineffective and looks at what else organizations should be doing to strengthen the information security culture.
- Researchers find that sound waves could be the next cyber attack vector
- Organizations say regular storage capacity shortage is biggest issue when managing backups
- Enterprises are making detection and response the top information security priority
- Patch rates decreasing as organizations struggle to keep up
