In the light of recent news showing that $1bn (£648m) has been stolen since 2013 in cyber-attacks on up to 100 banks and financial institutions worldwide Konrads Smelkovs of KPMG’s cyber security team says that it is time for financial institutions to be more proactive when it comes to information security.
Whilst SSD usage is up, the technology is still a cause of downtime: one third of respondents to a Kroll Ontrack survey confirm they have experienced some sort of SSD technology malfunction.
New research from the UK Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has found that despite three fifths (60 percent) of small firms questioned using cloud computing services, the remaining two fifths (38 percent) remain sceptical about the benefits of the technology in the face of perceived risks.
HP has published the 2015 edition of its annual Cyber Risk Report, which looks at the security threat landscape through 2014 and indicates likely trends for 2015.
If an organization’s backup system was designed before data volumes began to grow exponentially – or before IT infrastructures became highly virtualized – the company may find itself in a tight spot. Modernization is the key, and Logicalis US has identified six benefits CIOs can realize by updating their organization’s data storage and backup infrastructure.
Software glitches are at the root of many business continuity incidents: SQS highlights ten high profile software failures which happened in 2014.
Although the frequency of a cybersecurity attack on a large scale is low, by 2018, 40 percent of large enterprises will have formal plans to address aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attacks, up from zero percent in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc.
DDoS attacks are now one of the most common and affordable cyberweapons. They are used by unscrupulous competitors, sinister extortionists or just everyday cyber-vandals. More and more companies, regardless of their size or business, are encountering this threat.
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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.
