IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news
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Researchers from Binghamton University - State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems vulnerable to malicious attacks.
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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has announced the establishment of the Financial Systemic Analysis & Resilience Center (FSARC.)
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Tim Bandos explains how a thorough incident response plan can be one of the most effective means to protect a business against the growing threat of cyber attack and outlines the essential characteristics of such a plan.
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Gartner has published a checklist of the top technology trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2017. Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with substantial disruptive potential that is just beginning to break out of an emerging state into broader impact
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A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised - with several hundred of the ‘buckets’ actively providing malware.
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A further 13 police forces have joined the No More Ransom project, which aims to provide practical support to companies and individuals impacted by ransomware. Currently, five decryption tools are available via the project’s website.
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Veracode has published the findings of its annual State of Software Security Report (SoSS). The seventh edition of the report presents metrics drawn from code-level analysis of billions of lines of code across 300,000 assessments performed over the last 18 months.
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Cloud backup has been absorbed into the disaster recovery plans of many organizations; and while much has been written about its benefits, there are also potential difficulties that organizations should be aware of. Phillip de Bruyn takes a closer look.
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According to new research published by CTERA Networks, while enterprises continue to migrate workloads to the cloud at a rapid pace, protection of cloud-based servers and applications has not fully evolved to meet enterprise requirements for business continuity and data availability.
- The State of IT Resilience: survey results
- Rapid intelligent systems adoption is causing difficulties in threat assessment and risk management
- ENISA publishes annual report on downtime and incidents in the European electronic communications sector
- Cyber attackers master ‘false flags’ tactics to deceive security teams
