Data breaches cost hospitals billions
Data breaches of patient information cost healthcare organizations nearly $6 billion annually, and that many breaches go undetected, according to a study by the Ponemon …
Employees will take bigger risks during this holiday season
Employees in the US plan to spend less time shopping online from a work-supplied computer this holiday season than they did a year ago, but more of them are engaging in risky …
Mismanaged data encryption causes financial loss
Venafi invited the 150-plus survey participants from the world’s largest companies to give their views on the problem of downtime caused by increasing encryption …
Who is responsible for database security?
A culture of complacency hampers information security efforts, and as a result of lax practices and oversight, is leaving sensitive corporate data vulnerable to tampering and …
Customers vote against banks that don’t take security seriously
A report claiming to show that one in ten bank customers have moved banks owing to privacy and security concerns is a clear example of how banks need to start taking …
One in five card holders use birth date as PIN
Remembering passwords may seem the biggest problem you have when managing your e-mail or social network account, but that’s only because you don’t really believe …
25% of all targeted attacks hit the retail sector
Analysis reveals that targeted attacks have increased significantly since they were first discovered five years ago from one to two attacks per week in 2005 to 77 attacks per …
Americans feel safer on a computer than a mobile device
Americans feel their home computers are protected from malware and attackers but that confidence does not translate to their mobile devices with 87 percent of people surveyed …
Most Americans support an Internet kill switch
Sixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according …
80% of firms don’t know who should secure cloud data
The cloud is still akin to the Wild West when it comes to the security of the data hosted there, according to Courion. In fact, 1 in 7 companies admit that they know there are …
Protect your online privacy and identity
While consumers were very aware of the risks associated with being online and engaging in ecommerce, the majority of respondents relied on inadequate measures to protect their …
78% of organizations experienced downtime due to mismanaged encryption
Encryption key and digital certificate inventories are rising, according to a study by Venafi. Poorly managed encryption leads to system downtime, non-compliance and audit …