Despite risks, organizations embracing cloud-based email
Many organizations are holding off on migrating email to the cloud in order to first assess the security, compliance and other risks against uncertain cost benefits, according …
SMBs not concerned about cybersecurity
U.S. small business owners or operators have a false sense of cybersecurity as more than three-fourths (77 percent) say their company is safe from cyber threats such as …
Cloud provider assurance: Trust but verify
Can an organization trust an IT service provided through the cloud? A survey by KuppingerCole showed that “Cloud security issues (84.4%) and cloud privacy and compliance …
Security as an enabler of innovation
For years, many enterprises have viewed IT security as a costly extra that has to be endured as a way to reduce risk, without providing any other value to the business. Recent …
Mounting risks from mobile devices in the enterprise
At RSA Conference Europe 2012, RSA released a new research report from the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) that addresses the continued surge of consumer …
Cybercrime costs rise nearly 40 percent
HP today unveiled new research indicating that the cost and frequency of cybercrime have both continued to rise for the third straight year. According to the third annual …
Cloud Security Alliance outlines top mobile threats
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Mobile Working Group released findings from a new survey that calls out the specific security concerns enterprise executives say are the real …
Why more bandwidth won’t save your network
A Vanson Bourne Omnibus survey of 100 IT managers in large UK enterprises revealed the trends that will affect the WAN over the next few years as the performance of the WAN, …
One in three companies take compliance risks
Despite having corporate security and compliance policies and solutions in place, there is a widespread lack of confidence in their effectiveness. According to a DataMation …
Concerns about employee privacy for BYOD exposed
Business users are alarmed about employers’ ability to access and collect personally identifiable information (PII) through mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads and …
Top 10 issues eroding cloud confidence
Findings from a joint Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA survey show that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the Top 10 areas …
Analysis of nearly 1.7 billion shortened URL links
Web of Trust (WOT) completed an analysis of nearly 1.7 billion shortened URL links and found that the URL shortening services are often used to drive traffic to suspicious …