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A new study reveals that nearly two thirds (61 percent) of IT decision makers believe their employees regularly circumvent company security policies.
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Companies are increasing technology investments to protect against external data breaches, but employees pose a bigger threat than hackers according to CEB; to mitigate the rising costs of breaches, organizations need to reduce the burden of complying with privacy policies.
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A new security survey from Accenture has found that, in the past twelve months, roughly one in three targeted cyber attacks resulted in an actual security breach, which equates to two to three effective attacks per month for the average company.
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A group of technology companies have announced that they have joined together to establish a ‘Zero Outage’ industry standard to safeguard quality and reliability of IT infrastructure. The common goal of the group is to maximize availability and customer satisfaction
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Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has formally launched the UK Government’s new National Cyber Security Strategy and promised £1.9 billion of investment to underpin it.
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IDG Enterprise’s 2016 Cloud Computing Survey has found that 70 percent of organizations now have at least one application in the cloud; and adoption is still ramping up. More than half of organizations (56 percent) are still identifying IT operations for cloud hosting.
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Application containerization is gaining traction given its potential to increase efficiencies and data security options, and decrease cost, according to new expert analyses from ISACA; but it also brings its own risks.
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The US Federal Trade Commission has published new resources to help businesses respond to data breaches. Data Breach Response: A Guide for Business, an accompanying video and business blog set out the steps to take and whom to contact.
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Kaspersky Lab has released a report on botnet-assisted DDoS attacks for the third quarter of 2016 based on data received from Kaspersky DDoS Intelligence. Activity by attack servers located in Western Europe and the number of the resources attacked in the region have both increased.
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