Seasonal shopping days, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, while great for consumers, can be manically stressful for IT teams, who are tasked with keeping IT systems running smoothly and securely despite sometimes unprecedented surges in traffic. Any downtime on Black Friday could cost a retail business huge amounts, and lead to disgruntled customers.
APRA, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, has released the final version of its new Prudential Standard CPS 234, which is focused on resilience against information security incidents.
Tenable, Inc., has published its latest Vulnerability Intelligence Report, which provides an overview of real-world current vulnerability trends and insights into how organizations assess and respond to new cyber risks.
It’s the time of year where we start looking ahead to the New Year and the possible changes that may occur in the threat landscape. In this article, Ian Kilpatrick makes ten predictions for changes that may occur in the cyber security environment.
Responsibility for information security is not falling to any one senior executive function, according to the 2018 Risk:Value report from NTT Security, which surveyed 1,800 senior decision makers from non-IT functions in global organizations.
Syncsort has published results from a survey exploring current and future use of cloud computing. Responses revealed that, while adoption is high with 78 percent using or planning to use cloud in the future, most organizations lack a formal strategy to realize the full benefits.
Datto, Inc., has published the findings of its third annual Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report, which found that ransomware continues to be the leading type of cyber attack experienced by small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and business continuity and disaster recovery technologies are the most effective methods for ransomware protection.
2019 could see major changes in the way that organizations manage their mission critical applications. Jerry Melnick looks at developments that he expects to see in the areas of cloud, high availability, DevOps, IT operations analytics and artificial intelligence.
McAfee has released its Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, which analyzed billions of events in anonymised customers production cloud use to assess the current state of cloud deployments and to uncover risks.
The entire Continuity Central website is scanned daily by Sucuri to ensure that no malware exists within the site. This means that you can browse with complete confidence.
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.
