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Intermedia's 2016 Crypto-Ransomware Report shows that ransomware is targeting bigger businesses and spreading within corporate networks, which spotlights a widespread gap in business continuity.
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The findings of Code42’s 2016 Datastrophe Study have been published. This data protection study surveyed 400 IT decision makers, and more than 1,500 UK-based knowledge workers between the ages of 16-55+, all of whom work in enterprise-size organizations.
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Whaling is a recent derivative of phishing which can pose a real threat to business survival. Fred Touchette explains what it is and provides a checklist of preventative actions that organizations can take.
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Damaging cyberattacks on a global scale continue to surface every day. Some nations are better prepared than others to deal with online threats from criminals, terrorists and rogue nations.
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British businesses are not taking cyber security seriously enough, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has warned, with under a third (28 percent) of cyber attacks being reported to the police.
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Bromium surveyed 100 attendees at the recent RSA Conference in an effort to understand some of the attitudes, opinions and trends among security professionals.
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ASIS International, (ISC)² and ISACA have signed an MOU to develop a Security Awareness American National Standard. This guidance standard will address the intersections of physical, cyber and information security management
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The Cyber Kill Chain describes the different stages of an attack, from initial reconnaissance to objective completion. In this article Richard Cassidy describes the different elements of the Cyber Kill Chain and how to use it.
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Nick Lowe explores how current security measures against bulk data theft from organizations are broken: and how they can be fixed.
- Risk mitigation and service management: putting in place the right controls and workflows
- Many organizations are actively planning widespread deployment of encryption due to increased risks and privacy compliance: survey
- Are Canadian businesses prepared for the new cyber threat landscape?
- Cybersecurity is still seen as a technology issue, not a business imperative: survey
