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Worldwide digital transformation spending to reach $1.97 trillion in 2022
Worldwide spending on the technologies and services that enable the digital transformation (DX) of business practices, products, and organizations is forecast to reach $1.97 …
Week in review: Vaporworms, DevOps roadmap for security, ethical data management
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Cybersecurity and ethical data management: Getting it right Laura Norén, director of …
Vaporworms: New breed of self-propagating fileless malware to emerge in 2019
WatchGuard Technologies’ information security predictions for 2019 include the emergence of vaporworms, a new breed of fileless malware with wormlike properties to …
Online shoppers continue to engage in risky behavior
Findings from a new McAfee survey reveal the risky habits of online shoppers, including using unsecured Wi-Fi for online shopping and purchasing items from online retailers …
What senior finance executives think about payments security
A WEX survey of more than 1,000 CFOs and senior financial executives from the U.S., Europe and Asia/Oceana revealed that for this group, security is paramount in payments …
Cloud interoperability and app mobility outrank cost and security for primary hybrid cloud benefits
Enterprises plan to increase hybrid cloud usage, with 91% stating hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model, but only 18% stating they have that model today, according to Nutanix. …
Organizations unable to achieve business resilience against cyber threats
The Resilience Gap study, which surveyed over 4,000 business decision makers across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan found that while 96% of the …
Law firms are increasingly investing in cybersecurity programs
Logicforce released the results of its most recent Law Firm Cybersecurity Scorecard, a periodic study designed to assess cybersecurity preparedness across the legal industry …
Online shopping fraud to surge during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
New benchmark data from ACI Worldwide revealed a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 peak holiday season. Based on hundreds of millions of …
IoT related security missteps cost enterprises millions
Enterprises have begun sustaining significant monetary losses stemming from the lack of good practices as they move forward with incorporating the IoT into their business …
What’s keeping Europe’s top infosec pros awake at night?
As the world adapts to GDPR and puts more attention on personal privacy and security, Europe’s top information security professionals still have doubts about the industry’s …
60% of firms believe a major security event will hit in the next few years
Only 30 percent of 1,250 senior executives, management and security practitioners in the U.S., U.K. and Canada are confident their business will avoid a major security event …