While successful Internet of Things (IoT) implementations can bring big benefits, many projects fail with associated business impacts. Jörg Hecke looks at how businesses can make the most of IoT, without impacting on business as usual.
Global organizations have stalled in their progress towards cyber security best practice and are facing paralysis as cyber criminals become more advanced. This is the conclusion drawn from the findings of the 2019 Risk:Value report – ‘Destination standstill. Are you asleep at the wheel?’ – from NTT Security.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has developed the Cloud Octagon Model, a new approach to overcoming the challenges involved in cloud computing environments.
Databarracks has shared new data from its soon-to-be-released Data Health Check survey which highlights that ransomware remains a serious issue for UK organizations. From a sample of 400 IT decision-makers, the data shows that 28 percent of organizations in the UK have been affected by ransomware in the past year.
Positive Technologies has released a new research report, ‘Attacks on Web Applications: 2018 in Review’, which looks at the main threats to modern web resources. The analysis, covering over a million attacks, used web attack statistics collected by Positive Technologies Application Firewall.
Endace has announced the results of its latest research study, Challenges of Managing and Securing the Network 2019, conducted by independent, US-based research company, Virtual Intelligence Briefing (VIB).
The Financial Education & Research Foundation (FERF), the independent non-profit research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI), has released the ‘Protection vs. Preparation: The Critical Difference Between Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience’ report sponsored by Microsoft.
Unitrends has published survey findings from its fifth annual Cloud and Disaster Recovery Survey. This year’s survey offers insights into the challenges and trends that IT departments and admins face when protecting data from downtime and disasters as data volume and importance grow.
The 2019 Global DNS Threat Report, conducted by IDC and sponsored by EfficientIP, states that over the past year, organizations faced on average more than nine DNS attacks, an increase of 34 percent. Costs went up 49 percent, meaning that one in five businesses lost over $1 million per attack.
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