IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news

UK businesses experienced a total of 82 million hours of Internet downtime in 2017

Details: Published: Tuesday, 27 March 2018 07:49

UK businesses lost 82 million hours to Internet outages in 2017, according to research conducted by Opinium.

More than three-quarters of businesses lack a formal cyber security incident response plan

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2018 09:01

IBM Security has published the results of a global study exploring the factors and challenges of being a cyber resilient organization. The study was conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM and found that 77 percent of respondents admit they do not have a formal cyber security incident response plan (CSIRP) applied consistently across their organization.

Memcached DDoS attack ‘kill switch’ discovered

Details: Published: Friday, 09 March 2018 09:57

Corero Network Security has disclosed the existence of a practical ‘kill switch’ countermeasure for the Memcached vulnerability, responsible for some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.

Cyber attacks: five key steps for an effective response

Details: Published: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:31

Cyber incident response preparation is often a weak area in many organizations. In this article, Peter Alexander looks at how to develop an effective incident response plan and overviews five steps that should be taken during an incident.

Many organizations are moving to the cloud without evaluating the impact of a cloud outage

Details: Published: Friday, 16 March 2018 08:13

New findings from a Vanson Bourne study indicate that the majority (60 percent) of respondents have not fully evaluated the cost of a cloud outage to their business and are therefore ill prepared to deal with the impact of an outage.

Complexity is the enemy of security

Details: Published: Friday, 09 March 2018 07:44

According to recent findings from the Ponemon Institute, a considerable 83 percent of respondents believe their organization is at risk because the intricacy of business and IT operations. Andrew Lintell looks at the issue and how organizations can improve security in complex networks.

Understanding Windows Server cluster quorum options

Details: Published: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 08:57

David Bermingham looks at ways to ensure that business critical information held within SQL Server deployments can be protected via cluster quorums, including looking at the role of various ‘witness’ options.

Organizations are still not doing enough to protect data privacy

Details: Published: Tuesday, 13 March 2018 09:00

Many organizations are not taking all the necessary steps to protect data privacy, according to new findings released from PwC’s 2018 Global State of Information Security Survey (GSISS).

Emerging cyber threats: first native IPv6 DDoS attack strikes

Details: Published: Wednesday, 07 March 2018 09:22

A first of its kind IPv6 DDoS attack hit servers over the weekend, ‘raising a red flag for the future era of cybercrime’, according to global web security firm, Neustar.