IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news
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Opportunistic threat actors are leveraging trusted tools to retrieve and execute malicious code from remote sources. According to a new cyber threat report from eSentire, Inc., 91 percent of endpoint incidents detected in Q1 2018 involved known, legitimate binaries, such as PowerShell or mshta.exe.
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ClearSky Data has released the results of a recent survey into the state of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). The findings reflect the experiences of more than 500 senior-level IT leaders.
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New research from business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks, has revealed that organizational confidence in IT backup capabilities has risen over the past decade. Over 50 percent of organizations feel ‘very confident’ in the state of their backup solutions, which is up from 33 percent in 2008.
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EfficientIP has revealed the European results of its 2018 DNS Threat Report. Research for the report explored the technical causes and responses towards DNS-based threats and their potential effects on businesses across the world.
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Radware has published its 2018 Executive Application and Network Security Report. For the first time in the survey’s five-year history, a majority of executives (53 percent) reported paying a hacker’s ransom following a cyber attack.
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New research released by WinMagic shows that 87 percent of IT decision makers (ITDMs) limit their use of the cloud because of the complexity of managing regulatory compliance. A quarter (24 percent) said, it meant as a result, they only work with a single cloud vendor
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A new report from Exabeam highlights key challenges faced by those who manage and work in security operations centres (SOCs). The inaugural ‘State of the SOC’ report highlights the challenges which have the potential to limit the ability of SOCs to tackle ever increasing volumes of security alerts and potential cyber attacks.
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One third of global business decision makers report that their organization would try to cut costs by considering paying a ransom demand from a hacker rather than invest in information security.
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Nearly half (44 percent) of data breaches in the last year involved privileged identity according to a research report from Balabit. The report entitled ‘IT Out of Control’, also revealed that only two out of five (41 percent) of these privileged accounts are assigned to permanent employees
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