Check Point has announced findings from a new survey, conducted by Dimensional Research, examining the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on enterprise security. The findings show that the rapid changes to enterprise working practices, and broader concerns about the pandemic, are both being exploited by cyber criminals
New research from Infrascale, based on a survey of more than 500 C-level executives in small and medium sized businesses, has highlighted that data protection means different things to different people and data protection priorities depend upon an individual’s unique experiences and position.
A research study by Dimensional Research, commissioned by StorageCraft, shows that many organizations’ IT decision makers are not sufficiently prepared for recovery should the need to restore from their data backup arises.
One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is the rapid uptake in the use of video conferencing, especially the Zoom platform. Recently questions have been asked about how secure Zoom is. Here, Elliott Thompson gives his view on what the real risk of using Zoom is and offers tips to mitigate.
Researchers at Check Point continue to see a dramatic rise in the number of COVID-19-related cyber attacks. In the past two weeks alone, the number of COVID-19-related cyber attacks have increased significantly from a few hundred to as high as over 5,000 on March 28th.
World Backup Day takes place on March 31st each year and 2020 is no exception. Despite the majority of organizations being occupied with pandemic planning, strategies, and survival it is important not to take the organizational eye of the ball when it comes to business continuity fundamentals. World Backup Day provides a timely reminder of this.
Acronis has published the results of a survey that shows that 42 percent of companies experienced a data loss event that resulted in downtime in 2019.
PortSys has highlighted security and capability gaps that it believes exist in the VPNs that many organizations around the world are now using for business continuity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Neustar, Inc., has announced that its Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168 percent increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180 percent increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018.
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.
