With an article prepared for Business Continuity Awareness Week, Ryan Weeks, chief information security officer at Datto shares five tips that business managers and IT teams should follow to help ensure that disaster recovery testing efforts are effective.
Cloud anti-DDoS vendor Link11 has released its DDoS statistics for Europe for Q1 2019. The data shows that the quarter saw the number of attacks decline by nearly 20 percent compared with Q4 2018, to 11,177 from 13,910.
Every month at least one major hack or data leak takes place in which millions of records, including passwords, are exposed or stolen. This article looks five years into the future to see whether the password has been replaced by other technologies.
C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, according to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.
The Santa Fe Group has published the results of the Third Annual Ponemon Institute’s study on Third Party Risk for the Internet of Things (IoT). Ponemon reports an increase in IoT-related data breaches specifically due to an unsecured IoT device or application.
In the wake of a reported ransomware attack on global manufacturing firm Aebi Schmidt, Peter Groucutt outlines the steps companies should take to prepare for such incidents. A clear cyber incident response plan and maintaining frequent communication are critical.
A new report highlights trends and patterns in open source use. It finds that many organizations are not effectively managing open source applications and components, resulting in significant vulnerabilities.
Research from Bitglass has found that organizations are enabling bring your own device (BYOD) without putting proper security tools, training, and best practices in place. This represents a significant threat to the safety of corporate information.
Node4 has published its Mid-Market IT Priorities Report, which surveyed 300 mid-market IT decision-makers, including IT managers, CIOs, IT directors and Heads of IT. It identifies how IT leaders in organizations from a range of industries are managing both their existing and new technologies.
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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.
