Study from VMware and Forbes uncovers ‘outdated’ defences, and growing ‘chasm’ between polled organisations’ business executives and techies.
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‘Bad bots’ will screw up your business operations from several directions at once, so it’s important to know the different types of bots intent on cramping your commerce, reports James Hayes.
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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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Cyber security expenditure is proving costly for European organisations. So is cyber security regulation. Tax credits for companies with proven GDPR compliance would offset the overhead, suggests James Hayes.
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Effective enterprise Threat Intelligence programmes must make information sharing – at all levels of an organisation – a top priority for full-function cyber defence strategies, says Digital Shadows’ Isidoros Monogioudis.
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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 relevance of cyber security to the business bottom line has exploded in recent years. Cyber attacks have grown more sophisticated and more ubiquitous, and regulatory scrutiny more intense. This phenomenon has created unprecedented demand for cyber security talent for which the labour market was largely unprepared. In February 2017, industry body (ISC)² predicted in […]
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FACE TO FACE WITH… BEN RUSSELL, NCA
At the Cyber Crime Unit in the National Crime Agency, Ben Russell leads the UK’s fightback against the digital criminal adversaries. By James Hayes.
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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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Build a ‘human firewall’
With training that turns threat awareness into a learning game, organisations can transform their employees into a first line of defence against routine cyber attacks, explains Louise Pasterfield at Sponge.