CEOs ‘need technology in their DNA’ to ensure success
CEOs and executive leadership positions should be filled by people with technology career backgrounds, such as app or software development, if businesses are to be more successful, say the majority (69%) of business leaders in the UK. Research conducted by VMware has found international recognition that elevating technology team members into leadership roles drives significant […]
Financial services head to the cloud to escape security concerns
The financial services industry is accelerating its shift to the cloud, as it presses forward with digital transformation in the face of security concerns. That’s according to the Financial Services edition of F5’s 2020 State of Application Services (SOAS) report, which says 60% of surveyed organisations in the industry believe public cloud platforms will be strategically […]
McAfee advocates shared responsibility for cyber security in manufacturing
McAfee’s latest Cloud Adoption and Risk Report revealed that between January and April 2020, enterprise use of cloud in the manufacturing industry spiked by 144%, compared to the average overall enterprise increase of 50%. Likewise, external attacks on cloud accounts increased by 630%, with manufacturing verticals seeing a 679% increase in threats, making it one of the […]
Unmanaged personal devices at home threatening corporate security
More than half of UK employees working remotely during lockdown use unmanaged personal devices to access corporate systems. That’s according to a study published today by CyberArk, which found that UK employees’ work-from-home habits – including password re-use and letting family members use corporate devices – are putting critical business systems and sensitive data at risk. […]
Without automation, security gets harder during a business disruption
FireMon’s 2020 State of Hybrid Cloud Security Survey found that 69.5 percent of respondents have a security team of just 10 people or fewer. And most manage both on-premise network security and cloud security. These teams are already bogged down with manual tasks at the best of times, so when a crisis hits, it magnifies the risks of manual processes. Not only is it difficult to maintain essential network operations, but the number of misconfigurations that threaten compliance go up dramatically. Worse still, if unexpected interruptions to […]
UK’s manufacturing sector facing COVID-19 cyber threats
Manufacturing is now the most attacked sector representing almost a third of all cyber attacks in the UK & Ireland, while Technology was the most attacked sector globally. That’s according to the 2020 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from NTT, which says that despite efforts to layer up defences, many organisations are unable to stay ahead of […]
Financial services organisations ‘increasingly prone to authentication and DDoS attacks’
Financial services organisations have experienced a significant increase in the number of authentication and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the past three years. That’s according to research from F5 Labs, which says the opposite was true of web attacks, which were notably down during the same period. The analysis, which examined customer security incident response (SIRT) […]
84% of security and IT teams ‘don’t have a positive relationship’
Almost two thirds (59%) of European IT heads believe it is challenging to gain end-to-end visibility of their network, with almost half saying this lack of visibility is a major concern. That’s according to a new poll by IDC/Forrester/VMware, which says more than a third (37%) feel the challenges associated with this lack of visibility […]
McAfee flags autonomous vehicle hacking risks
IT security giant McAfee’s has successfully tricked an autonomous vehicle to accelerate up to 85 MPH in a 35 MPH zone using just two inches of electrical tape. The McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team and McAfee Advanced Analytic Team (AAT) partnered to explore how artificial intelligence can be manipulated through research known by the analytics […]
69% of SAP users: projects do not prioritise IT security
More than two thirds (68.8%) of SAP users believe their organisations put insufficient focus on IT security during previous SAP implementations, while 53.4% indicated that it is ‘very common’ for SAP security flaws to be uncovered during the audit process. That’s according to the SAP Security Research Report by risk management consultancy, Turnkey Consulting, which […]
