Cloud anti-DDoS vendor Link11 has released its DDoS statistics for Europe for Q1 2019. The data shows that the quarter saw the number of attacks decline by nearly 20 percent compared with Q4 2018, to 11,177 from 13,910.
Every month at least one major hack or data leak takes place in which millions of records, including passwords, are exposed or stolen. This article looks five years into the future to see whether the password has been replaced by other technologies.
A sharp increase in the number and cost of cyber attacks is the key finding in a study of more than 5,400 organizations across seven countries, commissioned by insurer Hiscox.
The Santa Fe Group has published the results of the Third Annual Ponemon Institute’s study on Third Party Risk for the Internet of Things (IoT). Ponemon reports an increase in IoT-related data breaches specifically due to an unsecured IoT device or application.
In the wake of a reported ransomware attack on global manufacturing firm Aebi Schmidt, Peter Groucutt outlines the steps companies should take to prepare for such incidents. A clear cyber incident response plan and maintaining frequent communication are critical.
Steve Blow explains that while businesses must remain consistently focussed on digital transformation in order to not fall to the back of the pack, digital transformation efforts could be futile if businesses don’t address and improve their IT resilience.
Research from Bitglass has found that organizations are enabling bring your own device (BYOD) without putting proper security tools, training, and best practices in place. This represents a significant threat to the safety of corporate information.
Node4 has published its Mid-Market IT Priorities Report, which surveyed 300 mid-market IT decision-makers, including IT managers, CIOs, IT directors and Heads of IT. It identifies how IT leaders in organizations from a range of industries are managing both their existing and new technologies.
According to Positive Technologies, the number of new vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) grew by 30 percent between 2017 and 2018. The US still has a lead in the number of Internet-accessible ICS components, with 95,661 IP addresses for ICS components found in 2018 compared to 64,287 in 2017.
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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.
