IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news

Why insider threats are succeeding

Details: Published: Thursday, 28 May 2015 06:52

Many companies still lack the means or motivation to protect themselves from malicious insiders; but the effects of insider threats are simply too big to ignore.

DDoS attacks: why denial of service is not always the attacker’s aim

Details: Published: Tuesday, 19 May 2015 07:47

Dave Larson, CTO at Corero, explains why DDoS attacks are often a diversionary tactic, allowing other attack vectors to be placed on the network unnoticed.

The Fifth Annual State of Software-Defined Storage Survey

Details: Published: Wednesday, 13 May 2015 08:32

DataCore has published the results of its Fifth Annual State of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) survey. The 2015 poll explored the impact of SDS on organizations across the globe

Five key questions about enterprise IT monitoring

Details: Published: Tuesday, 26 May 2015 07:54

To ensure the availability of high performance, mission critical IT services, IT departments need both solid monitoring capabilities and dedicated IT resources to resolve issues as they occur. But even with the right tools in place, when an abundance of alerts and alarms start streaming in, it can quickly become overwhelming

IT service providers are the first port of call for IT departments when a business-critical issue arises but are misaligned with their customers’ needs

Details: Published: Thursday, 14 May 2015 08:02

LogicNow has published the results of its Global IT Service Providers Harmony Report, an annual healthcheck of the global IT Service Management market.

Cybercrime will cost businesses over $2 Trillion by 2019

Details: Published: Wednesday, 13 May 2015 08:22

New research from Juniper suggests that the rapid digitisation of consumers’ lives and enterprise records will increase the cost of data breaches to $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, increasing to almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015.

The State of Cybersecurity 2015

Details: Published: Wednesday, 20 May 2015 07:41

A survey of 200 UK organizations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, Inc., has found that one in ten organizations do not think that cyber security is a priority for them, with a further 61 percent confirming it is not seen as a top three priority.

Six tips to help managed service providers ensure that downtime is kept to an absolute minimum

Details: Published: Thursday, 14 May 2015 07:26

Any business – whether big or small – can be damaged as a result of even a few hours of downtime. Lost revenue equates to loss of customers, not to mention permanent loss of data. Managed service providers (MSPs) are no exception to this rule and have a responsibility to put a strong back-up policy in place