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Shortage of security staff over Christmas

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Consumers growing less forgiving: only 4% would unconditionally stay with a business that failed to inform them of a cyber-attack.

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Rampant growth of DDoS attacks in 2016

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Neustar has published “DDoS & Cyber Security Insights,” an in-depth research report that provides statistical analysis of the distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack and mitigation data collected through Neustar SiteProtect. The report examines the growth of DDoS attacks during 2016, providing specific in-sight into multiple attack vectors, such as DNSSEC amplification and Internet-of-things (IoT) botnets.

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With state-sponsored hacking now a mainstay of the global threat landscape and cybercriminals pushing into new, powerful forms of ransomware, 2017 is shaping up to be a challenging year for the security community. By Adam Vincent, CEO, ThreatConnect.

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Seven Security predictions for 2017

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Device Security Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

Security researchers at WatchGuard Technologies warn of ransomworms, IoT botnet zombies, civilian cyber cold war casualties and the use of AI in attacks in the next 12 months.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Device Security Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

By Jeff Kukowski, Chief Operating Officer, SecureAuth.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Device Security Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), an international, non-profit organization focused on addressing systemic cyber risks, has appointed Troels Oerting, Group Chief Security Officer & Group Chief Information Security Officer of Barclays, as the 2017 Chairman of the Board. His one-year term begins on January 1, 2017.

Distology bolsters growing vendor portfolio with Vercara partnership

Distology, the specialist IT cybersecurity distributor, has announced a new strategic partnership...

Ziften expands its use of proprietary machine learning

Ziften’s endpoint protection platform uses proprietary machine learning in all phases of the...

Average cost of a cyberattack exceeds $1.6 million

A third of business still don’t have an emergency response plan in place, despite 78% of...

Safeguarding IT environments

Subscription-based managed service provides around-the-clock access to security experts, endpoint...

Only two-fifths of UK IT leaders would feel confident in their ability to respond to a cyber incident today

New research from Rackspace Technology delves into the state of UK businesses’ cybersecurity...

Human error to blame for 8 in 10 data breaches in 2021

80 per cent of data breaches in 2021 were caused by user error, according to new analysis of data...

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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