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Just how safe is cloud security?
Many organisations not only feel more secure about migrating all of their sensitive data into cloud-based services: some, in fact, believe it’s the safest place.
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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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Chief Information Security Officers – CISOs – surveyed by Nominet cope with high levels of stress that are causing nearly 20% of those polled to turn to medication or alcohol to deal with job pressures. The survey of 408 CISCOs in the UK and US found 91% report that they suffer ‘moderate’ or ‘high stress’, […]
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Commercial organisations could incur $5.2trn in additional costs and lost revenue by 2024 due to cyber attacks, as dependency on complex digitally-enabled business models outpaces the ability to introduce adequate safeguards that protect critical assets.
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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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Frontline workers in the retail, hospitality and entertainment industries are increasingly turning to unauthorised messaging apps for work-related communications – without their HR department’s knowledge. According to the Bridging the Internal Communications Gap: What Frontline Employees Really Want & Need research study from Speakap, some 53% of global frontline workers admit they use messaging apps […]
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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.
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Some 60% of European organisations suffered two or more business-disrupting cyber attacks – causing data breaches and/or disruption/downtime to business operations, plant and operational equipment – in the last 24 months. Some 91% of respondents to a study from the Ponemon Institute, on behalf of cyber exposure management provider Tenable, suffered at least one such […]
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A review of how well boards and management committees understand and manage the cyber risks their firms face has revealed that many should take more proactive steps to foster a security-centric culture which transforms cyber from an IT issue to an organisation-wide priority.
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There are few instances of workplace jargon that crop-up in both the business leader’s and information technologist’s lexicons; ROI – return on investment – is one such. But the fact that it carries different shades of meaning for its respective usage often proves unhelpful when it comes to establishing common terms of reference inside a digitally-transformed organisation.