Government and Financial Services best equipped to defeat cyber attacks
Government and Financial Service sectors globally are the most hardened against cyberattacks in 2020. That’s according to the third edition of the Synack Trust Report, a data-driven analysis of cybersecurity preparedness across all sectors and industries, found that government and Financial Services scored 15 percent and 11 percent higher, respectively, than all other industries in […]
50% of UK universities have reported data breaches in last 12 months
More than half of UK universities reported a data breach to the ICO in the last year, while 46% of all university staff received no security training and almost a quarter of institutions (24%) did not commission a penetration test from a third party. That’s according to research conducted by Redscan on the state of cyber security […]
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 […]