Ransomware attacks on organisations have grown significantly over the last 12 months, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report being presented at it-sa 2018 this week. Employees are falling victim to social attacks, such as financial pretexting and phishing, which represent 98% of social incidents and 93% of all breaches analysed by the report. […]
Sectors such as healthcare have a driving need for action in IT security – and are also doing more than other industries to increase their investments in better protected IT infrastructure, according to new research from the it-sa 2018 IT security expo and congress (October 9-11, Nuremberg).
The 2018 IT Risks Report from Netwrix has found that while 50% of UK respondents consider external hackers as ‘the most dangerous threat actors’ in terms of being the source of a potential data breach, the response results indicate that ‘insiders’ are the cause of security incidents in 73% of cases.
The latest edition of Verizon’s Payment Security Report has identified a ‘concerning downward trend’ for companies to fail compliance assessments and – perhaps more importantly – not maintaining full compliance with necessary standards. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) helps businesses that offer card payment facilities protect their payment systems from cyber […]
