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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 …

Most IT sec pros still rely on perimeter security to stop APTs

78 percent of IT security professionals are confident that firewalls and antimalware tools are robust enough to combat today’s advanced persistent threats, say the …

100 million cloud file analysis reveals shadow data threat

Elastica conducted a security analysis of more than 100 million files being shared and stored in leading public-cloud applications. Research revealed that 20 percent of …

40% of enterprise employees use personal devices for work

Approximately 40 percent of U.S. consumers who work for large enterprises said they use their personally owned smartphone, desktop or laptop daily for some form of work …

Cyber skills shortage makes UK a soft target for hackers

A survey conducted by MWR InfoSecurity at 44Con 2014 has revealed that 75% of the information security professionals in attendance believed that a lack of cyber security …

Think before you share that file

It’s hard to read through the news nowadays without stumbling upon some type of data breach or leak. Recently, Apple’s iCloud service has been in the limelight, …

60% of Android attacks use financial malware

Malicious programs targeting Android-based devices in order to steal money were used in 60 percent of attempted attacks registered by Kaspersky Lab security products, …

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