For modern organisations, digital transformation is increasingly the only game in town. CIOs are turning to multiple cloud providers in droves for new app-based models, driving enhanced business agility to meet ever-changing market demands. Yet security remains a constant challenge. Web applications themselves remain a major target for data theft and DDoS. A Verizon report from earlier this year claimed that a quarter of the breaches it analysed stemmed from web application attacks. So, what...
Read MoreIn this issue of Business Matters, we discuss the results of recent survey of top information security professionals with Andrey Evdokimov, Chief Information Security Officer (#CISO), Kaspersky.
Read MoreLast May marked a seismic shift in global privacy and information rights with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. In the intervening period we have seen other countries follow suit with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) scheduled for implementation in 2020 and a raft of similar regulations on the horizon across the Asia Pacific region. It’s clear that GDPR is just the opening act in a narrative that will result in a...
Read MoreDatrium has released findings from its industry report on the State of Enterprise Data Resiliency and Disaster Recovery 2019, which assesses how organizations are implementing disaster recovery (DR) to protect their data from attack or disaster.
Read MoreCybSafe invites cyber security professionals to contribute to new academic research into the impact of simulated phishing.
Read MoreFireMon has released its 2019 State of the Firewall report, the annual benchmark of current issues in firewall management. The latest report finds that enterprises are slow to abandon manual processes, despite being short staffed, as the lack of automation, coupled with increasing network complexity and lack of visibility contribute to costly misconfigurations and increased risk. The 2019 State of the Firewall report features feedback from nearly 600 respondents, including nearly 20% from the...
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