Human behaviour still the biggest threat to company security
Nuix, a security intelligence and information management technology company, had in-depth conversations with chief information security officers and directors from Fortune 500 …
Finance teams becoming involved in cyber risk mitigation oversight
CFOs and their finance teams are toughening policies on suppliers and increasing insurance coverage as they are asked take on a larger role in defending their companies from …
How BitTorrent activity impacts security ratings
BitSight examined BitTorrent P2P file sharing activity of over 30,700 companies. They looked at the percentage of P2P downloads containing malware, the top torrented …
Infosec pros are moving beyond traditional passwords
Businesses nationwide are increasing their cybersecurity budgets and exploring alternative authentication techniques to passwords, according to a SecureAuth and Wakefield …
IT teams expect a nightmare during the holidays
Dealing with potential data loss will be the number one headache confronting IT professionals in the run up to the 2015 holiday season. Over one-third of IT professionals in …
IT use of cloud surges to record heights
The cloud has reached the point where businesses are no longer debating whether or not to use cloud, but how pervasively they will use it. A new North Bridge survey shows …
Will 2016 be the year of the 100G network?
100G Ethernet networks will be deployed much faster and more broadly than previously expected. Based on the influence of new paradigms currently emerging like SDN, NFV, Big …
Surge in global cloud application adoption
Cloud application adoption across all industries increased more than 71 percent in 2015, according to Bitglass. Their global report was compiled through an automated, …
Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?
According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of …
SQL injection has surfaced as the no. 1 attack in 2015
A new survey from Ponemon Institute finds that nearly 80 percent of enterprises say that their organization’s portfolio of applications has become more vulnerable to …
The impact of data breaches on customer loyalty
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of consumers worldwide say they are unlikely to shop or do business again with a company that had experienced a breach where financial information was …
Do CEOs know enough about cyber security?
One-third of CEOs and 43 percent of management teams are not regularly briefed on cyber security issues, according to Dimensional Research. Additionally, while 79 percent of …