IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news
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The Internet could be on the brink of a ‘capacity crunch’ that would force us to rethink the way we use it, according to Professor Andrew Ellis of Aston University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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The average budget required to recover from a security breach is $551,000 USD for large enterprises, and $38,000 for small and medium businesses (SMBS) according to a new report by Kaspersky Lab.
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CloudPassage has announced the results of research indicating that lack of visibility into cloud deployments and associated provider security practices and controls is a source of major dissatisfaction amongst IT professionals.
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With an ever increasing number of everyday objects from our workplaces getting connected to the Internet, known as the 'Internet of Things (IoT), researchers from the University of Southampton have identified easy-to-use techniques to configure IoT objects, to make them more secure
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Gemalto has released the findings of its Breach Level Index for the first six months of 2015, revealing that 888 data breaches occurred, compromising 246 million records worldwide.
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Kroll Ontrack has reported that it is receiving a growing number of enquiries from corporates about how to recover from ransomware attacks.
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Businesses must prepare for a new generation of cyber risks which are fast evolving, moving beyond the established threats of data breaches, privacy issues and reputational damage to operational damage, business interruption and even potentially catastrophic losses, says a new report.
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Over 20 percent of enterprises will have digital security services devoted to protecting business initiatives using devices and services in the Internet of Things (IoT) by year end 2017, according to Gartner
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A new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation finds that 83 percent of IT security professionals are still confident that their perimeter security tools, like firewalls, can react quickly enough to defend against today’s sophisticated cyber attacks.
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