Election infrastructure security: Should we use Internet voting?
To protect the integrity and security of U.S. elections, all local, state, and federal elections should be conducted using human-readable paper ballots by the 2020 …
How metrics can enhance the effectiveness of security programs
For anyone responsible for maintaining their organization’s security posture, the findings from the SANS 2018 Security Operations Center (SOC) Survey should come as no …
How leadership implements cyber resiliency across their organizations
A majority of executives around the world feel they face a “specialist-generalist” dilemma as to whom leads on cyber resiliency due to its critical nature across …
IT security teams are being locked out of IoT projects
Trend Micro revealed that organizations around the world are exposing themselves to unnecessary cyber risk by failing to give IT security teams a voice when planning IoT …
Software-defined networking is turning concern about security in the cloud on its head
In an era when enterprises always have to grapple with processing large amount of information through big data technology, security has emerged as the most important measure …
Less than a third of companies have dedicated cybersecurity insurance
Only one third of senior executives in UK organisations admit their company insurance currently covers them for a security breach and for the financial impact of data loss, …
Number of smartphone users relying on software-only biometric security to grow 250%
A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the biggest shift in mobile payment security will be the move towards software-based methods, which rely on standard …
The anatomy of fake news: Rise of the bots
Spreading misinformation has become a mainstream topic to the extent that even the term ‘Twitter bot’ is a well-recognised term establishing itself into the modern lexicon. …
80% of enterprises struggle to protect machine identities
Ninety-six percent of companies believe that effective protection of machine and human identities are equally important to the long-term security and viability of their …
Cybercriminals shift tools, tactics and procedures to improve infection rates
Trend Micro released its Midyear Security Roundup 2018, revealing that cybercriminals are moving away from attention-grabbing ransomware attacks to more covert methods …
IoT failures plague most users worldwide
52% of consumers worldwide are now using Internet of Things (IoT) devices, yet 64% of those have already encountered performance issues – according to Dynatrace. On average, …
23% of UK SMBs still use USB drives as their primary data storage solution
Mny British companies are finding it hard to store and manage their company’s data effectively. Seagate polled a representative sample of 1,006 UK SMB employees, asking them …