What IT infrastructure changes can business continuity and risk managers expect to have to prepare for during 2019? Stephen Long makes four predictions – and cloud is central to them.
Link11 has released data showing DDoS attacks were at their highest levels in November on two of the busiest online trading days of the year. On Black Friday, Link11’s Security Operations Centre saw DDoS attacks on e-commerce providers increase by over 70 percent compared with other days in November. On Cyber Monday, attacks increased by 109 percent
Fingerprint authentication systems are a widely trusted, ubiquitous form of biometric authentication, deployed on billions of smartphones and other devices worldwide. Yet a new study from New York University Tandon School of Engineering reveals a surprising level of vulnerability in these systems.
The US Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICS WG) has published a new report which presents the findings of its Internet of Things (IoT) Task Group's examination of current cyber security standards for the IoT.
Despite sensitive data being increasingly moved to the cloud, research carried out by Databarracks reveals that over 60 percent of organizations have not evaluated the business continuity risks for their cloud services over the past year.
Link11 has published its Q3 DDoS Report, revealing that the scale and volume of attacks continued to grow in Europe during Q3 2018. The Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) registered a total of 15,934 attacks in the period (averaging over 175 attacks per day), an increase of 71 percent over the previous quarter.
Jonathan Meltzer examines four different options for ensuring application-level continuity through high availability and disaster recovery provisions in a hybrid or exclusively Azure cloud environment.
BeyondTrust experts Morey Haber, chief technology officer, and Brian Chappell, senior director, Enterprise & Solutions Architecture make ten predictions for developments in information security, cyber risks and data protection during 2019:
Bitglass has released its 2018 BYOD Security Report. The analysis is based on a survey of nearly 400 enterprise IT experts who revealed the state of BYOD and mobile device security in their organizations.
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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.
