One of the clear impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has forced many organizations into embracing remote working; and this may have an irreversible influence on future working practices – and cyber resilience. Tiago Dias explains…
Bitglass has released its 2020 BYOD Report, which analyses enterprise use of bring your own device (BYOD) as well as the state of personal device security within organizations.
Throughout history, deception has been a critical component of military activities. Now that most organizations are continuously targets of cyber attacks deception provides a way to stay ahead of cyber attacks instead of feeling like we’re always one step behind. Carolyn Crandall explains further...
Researchers at Check Point have identified a security flaw in Windows DNS, the domain name system (DNS) services provided by Microsoft in Windows operating systems. Hackers could use this vulnerability to gain Domain Administrator rights over servers, and seize control of organizational networks.
In a paper scheduled to be published in the IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, various researchers have set out what they see as key challenges for effective cyber resilience and steps that can be taken for improvement.
According to research by Kaspersky ICS CERT experts a number of industrial companies are currently experiencing targeted attacks involving the Snake encryption ransomware. This article explains how to identify whether your organization is being lined-up for an attack.
Organizations need to embrace a mindset of continuously identifying - and closing - gaps in their cyber security posture to ensure the organization is as secure as it can be. To achieve this a person, or team, needs to be appointed to this role says Matt Cable.
Exabeam has published the results of a new survey of UK security practitioners, which tracks the adoption and use of cloud-based security tools. This latest survey showed a marked increase in the adoption of these security tools compared to an earlier study carried out in March 2020 prior to the COVID-19 lockdown.
Enterprises that halted their cloud migration journey during the current global pandemic are two and a half times more likely than those that continued their move to the cloud to have experienced IT outages that negatively impacted their SLAs.
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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.
