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.
A10 Networks has published the findings of a new report into the state of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack weapons and targets, showcasing the growing use of IoT devices in synchronised attacks on targets globally.
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…
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has announced the release of its new IoT Controls Framework, which introduces the base-level security controls required to mitigate many of the risks associated with an IoT system operating in a range of threat environments.
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.
Many organizations struggle with developing and implementing security training and awareness programs within their organizations that actually make an impact and are measurable.
The cost to companies from malware and ‘malicious insider’ related cyber attacks jumped 12 percent in 2018 and accounted for one-third of all cyber attack costs, according to new research published by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute.
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