Security + Compliance

IBM, HyTrust, and Intel help ensure cloud security and data compliance

Strengthening adaptive authentication

Leveraging User Behavior Analytics (UBA) to make dynamic risk assessments in real-time is the most effective way of strengthening security without sacrificing usability.

30 percent of malware attacks are zero day exploits

Thirty percent of malware can be classified as new or zero-day because it cannot be caught by legacy antivirus solutions, according to research published in WatchGuard’s first Quarterly Internet Security Report, which explores the latest computer and network security threats affecting SMBs and distributed enterprises. The results from Q4 2016, confirm that cyber criminals’ capability to automatically repack or morph their malware has outpaced the AV industry’s ability to keep up...

Confusion over Cloud security

AlienVault RSA survey finds that one third of respondents describe the state of security monitoring within their organization as “complex and chaotic”.

Industrial computers under attack

On average two-in-five computers, related to the technological infrastructure of industrial enterprises, faced cyberattacks in the second half of 2016. This is a finding from Kaspersky Lab’s report “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems. The second half of 2016.” The percentage of industrial computers under attack grew from over 17 per cent in July 2016 to more than 24 per cent in December 2016, with the top three sources of infection being the Internet,...

The impact of hybrid IT

SolarWinds’ annual study on the state of the IT industry dives deeper into the effects hybrid IT has had on UK organisations.