How safe is the cloud infrastructure of educational institutions?
83% of educational organizations confirmed they store sensitive data in the cloud. With educators and students constantly sharing that information, they are more concerned …
Most educational institutions store sensitive data in the cloud. Is it safe?
A Netwrix survey revealed that 47% of educational institutions suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure within the last 12 months. For 27% of them, incidents in …
archTIS appoints Pete Smith as VP and GM of EMEA
archTIS announced the company is expanding its presence across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the appointment of Pete Smith as the Vice President and General …
Endpoint security: How to shore up practices for a safer remote enterprise
It’s a long-held belief that enterprise IT teams are overworked. It’s also considered common knowledge that their jobs have only gotten harder in the days since workforces …
Financial organizations struggling to secure data in the cloud
In 2020, the most common incidents that financial organizations suffered regarding data in the cloud were phishing attacks (reported by 26%), targeted attacks on cloud …
IT skills shortage forces organizations to prioritize education
Netwrix conducted studies to understand how the pandemic and ensuing work-from-home initiatives has forced organizations to change their IT priorities since a similar survey …
CCPA enforcement to put pressure on financial organizations’ IT resources
Enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which begins on July 1, 2020, is going to put additional pressure on already overstretched IT resources and budgets, …
Educational organizations use cloud apps to share sensitive data outside of IT control
Many educational organizations are at risk of data security incidents during the current period of working from home and virtual learning, a Netwrix report reveals. Weak data …
Data security and automation top IT projects for 2020, AI not a priority
Data security and automation are the top IT projects for 2020, while artificial intelligence projects are not in the top 10 for IT professionals, according to Netwrix. The …
Netwrix Auditor 9.9: Mitigating the risk of data breaches
Netwrix, a vendor of information security and governance software, announced the release of Netwrix Auditor 9.9, which enables organizations to strengthen control over access …
Some IT teams move to the cloud without business oversight or direction
27% of IT teams in the financial industry migrated data to the cloud for no specific reason, and none of them received financial support from management for their cloud …
70% of educational orgs don’t have an appropriate cloud security budget
Even though cloud technologies are becoming more popular in the education sector, management is still reluctant to invest in cloud data security initiatives, a Netwrix study …