Radware’s Global Application and Network Security Report 2016-2017 has found that hackers and companies agree on one thing: data is lucrative. According to the report, 49 percent of European businesses confirmed that ransom was the top attack motivation in 2016, an increase of nearly 100 percent
In a new cyber predictions report, Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company, predicts that 2017 will usher in intensified cyber attacks, new regulations and a shift in how businesses approach cyber risk management.
From record-breaking data breaches to widespread ransomware attacks, 2016 was the year that hacking went mainstream. But what does 2017 have in store for us? Continuity Central spoke to five security experts for their take on the biggest threats we’ll face in 2017...
The growing cybersecurity skills gap presents a very real long-term risk to organizations. In this article, Joanne Godfrey examines what organizations can do to address the issue.
Even more serious than the ever increasing financial and reputational risks affecting the corporate and commercial sectors are the very real possibilities of cybercrime being used to execute large scale terrorist attacks, assassinations and even murders.
In an increasingly virtualized world, recovery time objectives (RTOs) are becoming more and more difficult to measure, as conventional disaster recovery testing is almost impossible to do in a live environment on operative systems. Peter Godden looks at the issue…
David Ferbrache, technical director in KPMG’s cyber security practice, highlights the cyber security trends that he expects to develop during 2017.
Research from Kaspersky Lab has found that businesses are not ready to protect themselves against DDoS, with four in ten (39 percent) businesses unclear about the most effective protection strategy to combat this type of attack.
Check Point has released the findings of a survey showing that security concerns are the biggest barrier to businesses migrating to cloud environments.
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