EU to invest €450 million in cybersecurity research
The European Commission launched a new public-private partnership on cybersecurity that is expected to trigger €1.8 billion of investment by 2020. The EU cybersecurity …
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Industrialisation of cybercrime is disrupting digital enterprises
Only a fifth of IT decision makers in large multinational corporations are confident that their organisation is fully prepared against the threat of cybercriminals. The vast …
Half of SMBs experienced a breach in the past year
More than 50% of SMBs have been breached in the last 12 months, according to a North American study by the the Ponemon Institute. No business is too small to evade a cyber …
As threats evolve, faster response times are essential
Two thirds of respondents to a global survey by the Business Continuity Institute reported that they had experienced at least one cyber incident during the previous twelve …
Businesses are unprepared for emerging threats
Organizations are failing to appreciate the growing challenges of protecting their data and, as a result, are experiencing the economic impact of data loss, according to EMC. …
Cyber threats today: Significant and diverse
Insider data theft and malware attacks top the list of the most significant concerns for enterprise security executives, according to Accenture. Of those surveyed, 69 percent …
Looking for trouble: How predictive analytics is transforming cybersecurity
Leading organizations recognize that stringent cybersecurity processes and strong infrastructure, while essential, are not enough to eliminate today’s disparate and ubiquitous …
A third of organizations experienced a data breach in the past 12 months
Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter …
Maslow’s pyramid of cyber deception needs
In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow published his theory of human motivation, which turned into a consensual method to analyze a person’s needs. Maslow’s theory …
Do companies take customers’ security seriously?
75 percent of adults in the UK would stop doing business with, or would cancel membership to, an organisation if it was hacked. This suggests, however, that a quarter would …
Proactive threat hunting: Detect, isolate and eradicate
Organizations worldwide wait until they fall victim to a damaging cyber attack before engaging a provider of managed security services, or MSS, according to Raytheon. …
Security delays digital adoption in banks, billions at stake
$405.3 billion, that’s the Digital Value at Stake (VaS) retail banks have the potential to realize from 2015 to 2017. Yet, in 2015, financial services as a whole captured just …