Cyber threats are evolving, fast. From social engineering to exploring the dark web for company specific information, even placing rogue individuals into an organization as employees, criminal gangs are embarking upon increasingly targeted attacks.
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published a new document, ‘Guidance on cyber resilience for financial market infrastructures’.
Dr. Jim Kennedy explains why managing the cyber risks posed by suppliers and partners is the weak link in many information security plans and looks at how to improve in this area.
In a new Radware survey 84 percent of US and UK information technology executives at companies that had not faced ransom attacks said they would never pay a ransom; however, 43 percent of respondents from companies that had been attacked said that ransoms had been paid.
Two thirds of respondents to a global survey by the BCI state that they experienced at least one cyber incident during the previous twelve months, and 15 percent experienced at least ten incidents during the same period.
On Wednesday 21st October 2015, there was a ‘significant and sustained’ cyber-attack on TalkTalk. Given the seriousness of the attack the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee investigated the incident and the resulting report has now been published.
Veritas Technologies has released the results of a global survey indicating that nearly three-quarters of enterprises continue to adopt multiple private and public cloud strategies. The findings highlight the need for organizations to adopt solid information management and security strategies.
Insider data theft and malware attacks top the list of the most significant concerns for enterprise security executives, a new report from Accenture and HfS Research finds.
Uptime Institute has published the results of the 2016 Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Survey. The sixth annual survey provides an overview of the major trends shaping IT infrastructure delivery and strategy.
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