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Security issues in collaboration platforms

CipherPoint revealed the results of its second annual survey on security issues in collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, and Google Apps. …

Nearly 50% have been a victim of a data breach

RSA released the results of a new survey in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute highlighting consumer attitudes toward online security. Surveying more than 1,000 consumers …

227,747 new malware samples are created daily

The growth of malware appears unstoppable. In total, some 20 million new strains were created worldwide in the third quarter of the year, at a rate of 227,747 new samples …

Targeted attacks around the globe will escalate

Experts from Trend Micro believe that targeted attacks campaigns will continue to multiply in 2015, after cybercriminals had noteworthy breaches via targeted attacks in the …

Risky file sharing practices can cause data loss and compliance violations

Organizational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and that employees routinely breach IT …

SIEM doesn’t reduce security incidents, say IT pros

A survey of IT professional has shown that most organisations don’t audit their IT infrastructures and those that do don’t have complete details of who changed …

The security threat of unsanctioned file sharing

Organisational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and employees routinely breach IT policies …

Post Snowden, most users have changed Internet habits

On the heels of Edward Snowden’s advice to switch from Dropbox, Facebook and Google to services that place a high priority on security and privacy, F-Secure is releasing …

Over a third of orgs have no real-time insight on cyber risks

Most organizations (67%) are facing rising threats in their information security risk environment, but over a third (37%) have no real-time insight on cyber risks necessary to …

Orgs choose network performance over security

An alarming number of organizations are disabling advanced firewall features in order to avoid significant network performance degradation, say the results of the Network …

10% of employees unaware if they have an IT department or not

A transatlantic survey of 2000 employees has found that only a fifth of UK workers think their data is more secure at work than at than at home, whereas the majority of US …

IT is losing the battle on security in the cloud

A majority of IT organizations are kept in the dark when it comes to protecting corporate data in the cloud, putting confidential and sensitive information at risk. This is …

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