The Netwrix 2015 State of IT Changes Survey has revealed that nearly 70 percent of organizations continue to make undocumented changes and only 50 percent audit their IT infrastructures.
NIST has announced the release of NIST SP 800-161, Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems and Organizations.
The US Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has released two statements about ways that financial institutions can identify and mitigate cyber attacks that compromise user credentials or use destructive software (malware).
Choosing a colocation partner is a mission critical decision which needs care, thought and research. Roger Keenan offers some advice.
Venafi has published new research reevaluating the risk of attacks that exploit incomplete Heartbleed remediation in Global 2000 organizations.
Neustar, Inc. has published the findings from its third annual DDoS attacks & impact report. Entitled ‘The Rise of Hybrid Prevention Strategies to Outperform Attackers,’ the report is based on a survey of IT professionals from across the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Legacy applications and older IT platforms can be a business continuity headache: Ian Masters offers some advice for those struggling with the issue.
A change is necessary in the mind-set about how we protect IT to an approach that sees attacks as a part of doing business.
The Ponemon Institute and Venafi have released the results of the 2015 ‘Cost of Failed Trust Report’, which examines the Internet’s system of trust. The report is based on interviews of over 2,300 IT security professionals based in the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, and the United States.
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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.
