Tripwire, Inc., has published the results of an extensive study conducted by Dimensional Research on its behalf. The study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the efficacy of seven key security controls that must be in place to quickly detect a cyber attack in progress.
UK small businesses are hugely underestimating the impact that a cyber attack could have on their reputation and must take steps to protect it, according to the findings of the Small Business Reputation and the Cyber Risk report, published by the Government’s Cyber Streetwise campaign and KPMG.
A new agreement between INTERPOL and Barclays marks an important development in public-private partnerships to more effectively combat cybercrime.
Barclays will become the first financial institution to have staff working full-time alongside police and other experts
The prpl Foundation, an open-source non-profit organization, has announced the availability of a new document, ‘Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Embedded Computing’, which describes a hardware-led approach to connected device security
Most UK business decision makers admit that their organization will suffer from a cyber security breach at some point. They also anticipate that to recover from a data breach would cost upwards of £1.2 million on average for their organization, the highest figure globally.
A Ponemon Institute survey of cyber resilience in German organizations reports that 79 percent of security executives state that their organization isn’t prepared for a cyber security incident. Furthermore, only 21 percent have the technology in place to respond to a cyberattack.
Paul German looks at the specific security issues with VoIP session initiation protocol and explains why the risks need to be taken seriously. It’s time to think differently about SIP security: before it is too late…
Almost two-thirds of organizations are considering outsourcing all, or parts of their security operations in light of growing and diversifying cyber-security threats. This is according to a survey of 300 IT decision makers sponsored by mission critical IT services provider Advanced 365.
A survey by Ipswitch has found that, while a majority of IT professionals believe that the secure sharing and transferring of files is very important, more than half are using unsecure cloud-file sharing services.
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