CyberEdge Group has published its sixth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR). The report found that IT security’s greatest inhibitor to success is contending with too much security data.
World Backup Day 2019, a day dedicated to the importance of regular backups, took place on 31st March. This page provides updates related to the event; including useful resources, information and statistics.
Research from NETSCOUT has found that 91 percent of major UK enterprises who had experienced a DDoS attack in 2018 experienced network downtime as a direct result. That downtime lasted for 30 minutes or more for nearly half the companies questioned, and an unlucky (or ill-prepared) 9 percent found their systems impacted for more than four hours.
Barracuda has released key findings from a global research study entitled ‘Closing Backup and Recovery Gaps’. Barracuda surveyed more than 1,000 IT professionals, business executives, and backup administrators worldwide to find out more about their data protection strategies.
CyberGRX has announced the results of its inaugural ‘Cost of Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Management’ study carried out by Ponemon Institute. Surveying over 600 IT security professionals, the study illustrates a persistent theme that organizations and third parties see their third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) practices as important but ineffective.
According to a new poll by NTT Security the majority (59 percent) of respondents admit they are not confident their company could resume ‘business as usual’ after the first 24 hours, although 41 percent say they are.
It goes without saying that backing up data is one of the most important things a business can do, especially considering how data is now essentially the lifeblood of an organization. With this in mind, five IT industry professionals give their advice as to how business continuity professionals can keep up with the ever-evolving world of backup...
Mark Jow shares some points that organizations should consider when analysing whether data protection processes and strategies are sufficient to meet the differing requirements of disaster recovery and data security.
The DDoS threat landscape has developed rapidly leaving many organizations behind in both their perception of the risks and their actions to protect against them. Rolf Gierhard looks at the most dangerous and pervasive misunderstandings about DDoS attacks…
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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.
