Link11 has published its Q3 DDoS Report, revealing that the scale and volume of attacks continued to grow in Europe during Q3 2018. The Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) registered a total of 15,934 attacks in the period (averaging over 175 attacks per day), an increase of 71 percent over the previous quarter.
It’s the time of year where we start looking ahead to the New Year and the possible changes that may occur in the threat landscape. In this article, Ian Kilpatrick makes ten predictions for changes that may occur in the cyber security environment.
Responsibility for information security is not falling to any one senior executive function, according to the 2018 Risk:Value report from NTT Security, which surveyed 1,800 senior decision makers from non-IT functions in global organizations.
Bitglass has released its 2018 BYOD Security Report. The analysis is based on a survey of nearly 400 enterprise IT experts who revealed the state of BYOD and mobile device security in their organizations.
Datto, Inc., has published the findings of its third annual Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report, which found that ransomware continues to be the leading type of cyber attack experienced by small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and business continuity and disaster recovery technologies are the most effective methods for ransomware protection.
2019 could see major changes in the way that organizations manage their mission critical applications. Jerry Melnick looks at developments that he expects to see in the areas of cloud, high availability, DevOps, IT operations analytics and artificial intelligence.
Seasonal shopping days, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, while great for consumers, can be manically stressful for IT teams, who are tasked with keeping IT systems running smoothly and securely despite sometimes unprecedented surges in traffic. Any downtime on Black Friday could cost a retail business huge amounts, and lead to disgruntled customers.
APRA, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, has released the final version of its new Prudential Standard CPS 234, which is focused on resilience against information security incidents.
Tenable, Inc., has published its latest Vulnerability Intelligence Report, which provides an overview of real-world current vulnerability trends and insights into how organizations assess and respond to new cyber risks.
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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.
