Cloud applications put your data at risk — Here’s how to regain control
By Yaki Faitelson, Co-Founder and CEO of Varonis Cloud applications boost productivity and ease collaboration. But when it comes to keeping your organisation safe from cyberattacks, they’re also a big, growing risk. Your data is in more places than ever before. It lives in sanctioned data stores on premises and in the cloud, in online collaboration […]
Normalising data leaks: A dangerous step in the wrong direction
It was only recently, in early April, when it came to light that the personal data from over 500 million Facebook profiles had been compromised by a data leak in 2019. And since then, an internal Facebook email has been exposed, which was accidentally sent to a Belgian journalist, revealing the social media giant’s intended strategy for dealing with […]
The data dichotomy and the vital importance of effective self-regulation
The data privacy debate that has raged for the past decade has patently failed to meet the needs of either industry or consumers. Legislative change continues to challenge digital marketing models – and has had little impact on consumer trust: Edelman’s 2021 Trust Barometer cites an era of “information bankruptcy”, with global trust levels at […]
Security software revenue to hit $45.5B in 2021
The digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic and the growing number of data breaches and cyberattacks has forced online users, companies, and organizations to increase their spending on security software solutions. According to data presented by StockApps.com, global security software revenues are expected to hit $45.5bn in 2021, a 20% increase in two years. For the purposes of the study, […]
Escaping from Data Lockdown with a Digital Evolution
With data amassing at an exponential rate, digital transformation continues to be throttled as businesses struggle to achieve the insight they need from the data. To achieve value from data, businesses need to be able to access what they need, when they need, by the right people, in a usable format. Peter Ruffley, CEO, Zizo, has […]
Meeting the Tests to get out of Data Lockdown
Digital transformation of any business has always been hampered by making sense of underlying data. And that data has been growing in volume at an unprecedented rate driven by the growth of IoT. It’s the perfect storm – the need for real-time information being increasingly distanced by the rate at which the data volume is […]
User Access Review – What’s That?
By Tenfold Security Users come, they stay, they leave, they move around between departments and they collect privileges on the way. That’s OK, they need privileges to do their jobs. But do they need all the privileges they have, always? That’s a question you need to ask yourself, for every user, repeatedly. This article covers what is meant by a user access […]
Solving the data centre skills shortage
By Stephen Whatling, Chairman at BCS The growth in demand for data centres worldwide has posed many challenges in recent years and this has now been expedited by the Covid-19 pandemic. Following a major uplift in demand for data services since March, the need for a resilient data infrastructure has never been greater. However, this year BCS’ independent […]
These are the key data privacy issues in 2020
Tuesday January 28th marked Data Privacy Day, the annual international day aimed at raising awareness of privacy and data protection issues and promoting best practices. Here we’ve gathered up the thoughts of some leading figures from across the sector, covering everything from GDPR to biometrics and compliance, and what 2020’s priorities need to be… Chase […]
NCSC details key wins in cyber security war
A scam to defraud thousands of UK citizens using a fake email address spoofing a UK airport was one of a wide range of cyber attacks successfully prevented by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the last 12 months. Details of the criminal campaign are just one case study of many in Active Cyber Defence […]
