IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news
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The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte predicts that in 2017 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will become larger in scale, harder to mitigate, and more frequent.
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Dr Markus Jakobsson overviews four trends expected to impact cybersecurity in 2017: nation-state attacks; an increase in hybrid attacks; leveraging the cloud; and advances in cyberattack insurance.
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It’s fair to say that 2016 wasn’t a good year for data protection, with numerous high-profile breaches hitting the headlines. Unless businesses make a determined effort to improve, 2017 will be no different.
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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
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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.
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David Ferbrache, technical director in KPMG’s cyber security practice, highlights the cyber security trends that he expects to develop during 2017.
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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.
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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.
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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.
