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UK small businesses are hugely underestimating the impact that a cyber attack could have on their reputation and must take steps to protect it, according to the findings of the Small Business Reputation and the Cyber Risk report, published by the Government’s Cyber Streetwise campaign and KPMG.
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Most UK business decision makers admit that their organization will suffer from a cyber security breach at some point. They also anticipate that to recover from a data breach would cost upwards of £1.2 million on average for their organization, the highest figure globally.
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Almost two-thirds of organizations are considering outsourcing all, or parts of their security operations in light of growing and diversifying cyber-security threats. This is according to a survey of 300 IT decision makers sponsored by mission critical IT services provider Advanced 365.
Barclays becomes the first financial institution to support INTERPOL efforts in combating cybercrime
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A new agreement between INTERPOL and Barclays marks an important development in public-private partnerships to more effectively combat cybercrime.
Barclays will become the first financial institution to have staff working full-time alongside police and other experts
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A Ponemon Institute survey of cyber resilience in German organizations reports that 79 percent of security executives state that their organization isn’t prepared for a cyber security incident. Furthermore, only 21 percent have the technology in place to respond to a cyberattack.
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A survey by Ipswitch has found that, while a majority of IT professionals believe that the secure sharing and transferring of files is very important, more than half are using unsecure cloud-file sharing services.
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Storage workloads in modern data centers / centres increasingly require scale-out environments to run demanding enterprise applications. These hyper-scale architectures can benefit greatly from software-defined storage (SDS) in terms of economic value, flexibility, and operational efficiency, according to experts at FalconStor Software Inc.
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Encryption can be a response to many data security requirements – but only if you choose the proper solution, implement it thoroughly and don’t overestimate its power.
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Arbor Networks has released its 11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) offering direct insights from the global operational security community on a comprehensive range of issues from threat detection and incident response to staffing, budgets and partner relationships.
