What’s driving security budgets and technology purchases?
IT security and IT leaders and their staff members do not agree on security objectives, according to findings from a new global Ponemon study.One of the key findings from the …
Social media security is still a low priority
80 percent of IT professionals believe social media is an easy way for hackers to gain access to corporate networks because it is often neglected in terms of security, and …
Most vulnerabilities on enterprise networks are two years old
The NTT Innovation Institute and NTT Group security combined an analysis of over six billion attacks observed in 2014 with an interactive data review and ongoing daily global …
Stagnant budgets and rising insider security threats
A Vectra Networks survey of more than 500 cybersecurity professionals in the Information Security Community on LinkedIn reveals that insider threats are rising, but IT …
70% of breaches are detected by a third-party
46 percent of organizations that have suffered a data breach took more than four months to detect a problem, and more than three months to mitigate the risk. Worryingly, the …
Risk managers most worried about loss of information confidentiality
Almost 70 percent of businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the last year, according to a study of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam …
Shadow IT is prevalent in government agencies
Despite clear benefits of cloud services – greater collaboration, agility, and cost savings – federal agencies are slow to migrate to the cloud due to security concerns. As a …
A fundamental shift in security spending
Firms are shifting their cyber security spend away from traditional Prevent & Protect approaches towards Detect & Respond operations, according to Pierre Audoin …
Confusion regarding strategic defenses for network security
RedSeal uncovered a high level of confusion regarding security issues in the network infrastructure. Nearly 60% of the 350 C-level executives surveyed believe they can …
Complex security solutions are exposing companies to risk
Companies are putting their customers’ data at risk because IT teams do not have the expertise or time to deploy today’s complicated IT security products, a new survey from …
Phishers register domain names, hammer traditional targets
The number of domain names used for phishing reached an all-time high, according to a new report by the the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Many of these were registered …
Total cost of average data breach reaches $3.8 million
The average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million, according to a Ponemon Institute study of 350 companies spanning 11 countries.The study also found that …
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