The Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS) at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, has released a Discussion Paper, entitled “Australia's Response to Advanced Technology Threats: An Agenda for the Next Government”.
The consequences of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack extend far beyond financial loss. These attacks also damage a company’s relationship with its customers, according to research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International.
A study of over 350 IT professionals reveals that 70 percent of employees are using cloud technologies that are not managed or supervised by their company.
Dataguise has announced the findings of a new survey entitled ‘Strategies for Securing Sensitive Data.’ In the survey senior IT decision makers were questioned on the topic of sensitive data security, including technologies in use, impacts to businesses when failures occur, and accountability after such events.
Nick Pollard outlines the key steps that will help organizations not only understand the value of their data, but can also help to build a more risk-based and tailored incident response plan.
Organizations remain unprepared and without a formal plan to respond to cyber security incidents, according to the annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) published by NTT Com Security, an NTT Group company. Analysing global threat trends since 2013, the 2016 report reveals that there has been little improvement in preparedness
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry must establish a common set of security standards, according to Oscar Arean, technical operations manager at disaster recovery provider Databarracks. Arean also argues that IoT risks should feature in organizations’ continuity plans if they want to be protected.
By Mike Langdon
Downtime. It is dreaded by all organizations. With so many business-critical applications distributed across networks, even a short period of downtime can be costly.
A new report published by TheCityUK and Marsh argues that firms across the UK financial and related professional services industry need to take urgent action on cyber risk.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
