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Why the legal sector is risking confidential information
The lack of unique logins, manual logoffs and concurrent logins is putting confidential information in the legal sector at risk, new research has revealed. A report by IS …

800 risk experts from 40 countries identify the top global business risks
The risk landscape for businesses is substantially changing in 2016. While businesses are less concerned about the impact of traditional industrial risks such as natural …

Shift in strategy around cloud adoption and security
Cloud adoption does not have to mean opening up your organization to increased security risks and threats if the right policies are in place, according to a new CSA survey. …

Compliance compounded by evolving threat landscape
As industry business models change, compliance challenges are being compounded by an evolving threat landscape and by increased scrutiny from federal agencies looking to …

Cloud Identity and Access Management market to reach $2.8 billion by 2020
A new report by Allied Market Research projects that the global cloud IAM market would garner revenue of $2.8 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 26.2% during the forecast …

Attackers use SQL injection to manipulate search engine rankings
Akamai has identified a sophisticated SEO campaign that uses SQL injection to attack targeted websites. Affected websites will distribute hidden HTML links that confuse search …

Most companies do nothing to protect their mobile apps
There’s a wide disparity between consumer confidence in the level of security incorporated into mobile health and finance apps and the degree to which organizations …

Insider threat focus on the rise
The focus on insider threats will increase and corporations will begin to penalize employees who misinterpret security policies and procedures, according to a new survey of …

Surge in endpoints drives need for security
The two most transformative trends impacting IT service providers (ITSPs) are endpoint growth and demand for security services according to a new Autotask survey of more than …

Group using DDoS attacks to extort business gets hit by European law enforcement
On 15 and 16 December, law enforcement agencies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the United Kingdom joined forces with Europol in the framework of an …

How do you ensure success with DevOps?
Only 20 percent of organizations that have attempted to implement DevOps have fully deployed it, according to CA Technologies. Research also found that these …

Have I been hacked? The indicators that suggest you have
Security professionals are constantly on the hunt for potential vulnerabilities and looking for ways to defend their networks. The term “indicator of compromise” (IOC) – first …
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