Latest Thales study reveals that organisations across the world are still do not provide adequate protection to their sensitive data in their cloud environments despite regulatory compliance risks.
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Senior executives at c-suite and board level are now responsible for Business Continuity (BC) plans at 25% of UK organisations, up from 21% in 2015, according to the Databarracks Data Health Check 2019 study. However, while IT involvement is decreasing gradually, but IT leaders are still by far the most likely to oversee BC plans, […]
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The executive and the IT security teams must do more to reduce the communications gap between them: it starts with recognition of the value each ally brings to the defence campaign. By Jens Monrad, Head of Intelligence EMEA, FireEye.
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Ransomware returns!
Reports of the demise of ransomware have been grossly exaggerated: businesses have to redouble their defences as new variants become ever more devious. By James Hayes.
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Study reveals scale of conflict business leaders are subjected to when technology disruption hits their business.
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Securing Industry 4.0
To meet their fullest potential, Industry 4.0 programmes must now apply holistic cyber-savvy thinking to all aspects of the industrial processes to be digitally transformed.
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Top managers being increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches – correlating to a rise of social-engineering attacks with ruthless financial motivation.
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Senior-level executives at some of the UK’s biggest companies still do not fully understand the potential impact of a cyber attack according to a report from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.
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More than 59,000 data breach notifications have been reported across the European Economic Area by public and private organisations since the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – came into force back on 25th May 2018.
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Senior executives are still often the ‘weakest link’ in the corporate cyber security chain and encourage cyber criminals to target their vulnerabilities to commit serious data breaches. A new report from outsourced infrastructure and data storage specialist The Bunker reveals many senior executives ignore the threat of hackers and cyber criminals, and often conceitedly feel that security policies in their organisations ‘do not apply to their unique position’.
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Security heads say operational/productivity loss and negative customer experience and data theft are now primary impacts of cyber attacks – 86% looking at AI/ML to aid fightback.
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Internet of Things – IoT – devices are have become cyber criminals’ top attack target, and now surpass web and application services, and email servers as attack targets.