Ransomware attacks are a key cybersecurity threat for global organizations and attacks have doubled since 2017, now targeting business critical systems, warns Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
Barry Shteiman looks at the role of machine learning in cyber security and explains that, while it is not a ‘silver bullet’, it has a distinct role when augmented with human intelligence.
Microsoft says that Azure Availability Zones are now available to help organizations implement a comprehensive resiliency strategy. The announcement was made in a blog post by Azure Head of Global Infrastructure, Tom Keane.
Over a quarter of businesses that have been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack don’t think they were the intended target, highlighting that businesses can’t afford to be complacent when it comes to today’s threat landscape.
A recent survey by Ponemon Institute, commissioned by SolarWinds MSP, looked at senior security executives’ awareness of and readiness for increased malware and ransomware threats.
Biometrics are fast becoming an integral part of online security but not all biometric options are equal in security strength and usability. Elliot Thompson provides a useful overview of the options that are available.
In response to developing ransomware techniques which target backups, Asigra is calling for organizations to review their backup policies and double down on redundancy so that multiple remote copies of mission critical backups are available when the next attack occurs.
Arcserve, LLC, has released results from a new survey revealing that while the cost of downtime is the top IT concern, less than 15 percent of businesses have a high degree of confidence in recovering their data should downtime or a disaster event occur.
The mainframe is becoming more important to large enterprises, with the percentage of organizations running at least half their business critical applications on that platform expected to increase next year.
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