Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organizations continue to believe that perimeter security technologies are effective against data breaches.
An overwhelming majority of business executives (81 percent) believe that successful adoption of the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is critical to their company’s future success, but only 25 percent have a clear IIoT strategy
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.
More than half of UK office workers say their employers have provided no cyber security awareness training, according to ISACA’s 2016 Cyber Security Perceptions study of more than 2,000 UK consumers online.
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.
Continuity Central interviews Capital Continuity managing director Lee Exall, who gives his views on disaster recovery as a service, how it is a much more versatile tool than often appreciated, and how it is likely to develop.
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.
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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.
