A new study from WinMagic has found that organizations are largely unprepared for when support of older versions of Microsoft’s Windows OS will be withdrawn in January 2020.
Researchers, from the University of Kent’s School of Computing and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, set out to define and codify the different ways in which cyber incidents can have negative outcomes.
Disaster recovery is a headache that every IT department has suffered and in this arena, as in so many others, the cloud offers a better choice, says Laz Vekiarides. In fact, not only is a secondary data center for DR no longer needed, it’s actually no longer a sustainable option...
New research from Kaspersky Lab has found that CISOs lack influence in the boardroom, making it difficult to justify the budgets they need to properly protect their organizations.
Neustar, Inc., has released the most recent International Cyber Benchmarks Index, which maps the changing attitudes to various security vulnerabilities. The report highlights current fears that artificial intelligence may prove a potent future threat.
Patrick Smith traces the history of IT disaster recovery and explains why he believes that it is time for the discipline to be pensioned off alongside RTOs and RPOs.
Web applications are increasingly a gateway to successful cyber attacks. In this article Aatish Pattni looks at the threats posed to web application security - and how these can be successfully addressed.
DataCore Software has published the results of its latest market survey, ‘The State of Software-Defined, Hyperconverged and Cloud Storage,’ which explored the experiences of 400 IT professionals who are currently using or evaluating software-defined storage, hyperconverged and cloud storage to solve critical data storage challenges.
Third parties are the fastest growing of the many significant cyber risks, finds a new global study from ESI ThoughtLab and WSJ Pro Cybersecurity, in partnership with Opus. The study, ‘The Cybersecurity Imperative’, benchmarks the cyber security practices and performance of over 1,300 organizations around the world.
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