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A survey of 200 UK and 200 German organisations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring, has found that UK organisations are not as quick to react to potential cyber vulnerabilities as their German counterparts. Twenty-nine percent of UK organisations said they could patch significant vulnerabilities, such as ShellShock and Heartbleed, within an hour, compared to 48 percent of German organizations. To detect new software...

Pindrop Security, the leading provider of call centre anti-fraud and authentication solutions for enterprise call centres, today announced the findings of its annual Phone Fraud Report. For the report, Pindrop analysed several million calls for threats using the company’s patented Phoneprinting™ technology and Phoneypot™ monitoring technology. The research found a 30 percent rise in enterprise attacks and more than 86.2 million attacks per month on U.S. consumers. Phone fraud continues to threaten enterprises across industries...

Cryptzone, a provider of dynamic, context-aware network, application and content security solutions, today announced that it has closed a $15 million Series B round of funding. The round was led by Kayne Partners, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., an approximately $29-billion alternative investment firm. Nishita Cummings, Managing Director at Kayne Partners, will join the Cryptzone board representing the firm, which has invested in other leading-edge companies in the security...

OpenDNS, a leading provider of cloud-delivered network security, today announced that it has established its first Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in London, accelerating its global expansion efforts. The US-based company will leverage its growing international presence to help companies in the region prevent their employees from reaching out to malicious sites and block incoming advanced threats that can infect their corporate networks — securing users and data anywhere, anytime, on any...

Tripwire, Inc., the global provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, today announced the results of a study on cyber literacy challenges faced by organisations. The study, which was carried out in May 2015, evaluated the attitudes of executives as they relate to cybersecurity risk decision-making and communication between IT security professionals, executive teams and boards. Study respondents included 101 C-level executives and directors as well as 176 IT professionals from both private and...

Survey also reveals that 40 percent of ITDMs in UK firms have encountered a data breach or failed a compliance audit in the last 12 months Vormetric, a leader in enterprise data security for physical, virtual, big data, public, private and hybrid cloud environments, today announced the European findings of its 2015 ‘Insider Threat’ survey.  The survey was conducted online on its behalf by Harris Poll in fall 2014 among 818 enterprise IT decision makers...

451 Research, an information technology research and advisory company, has determined that cellular Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) connections will increase nearly fourfold globally from 252 million in 2014 to 908 million in 2019. A monumental increase in active cellular IoT/M2M connections will be driven by a number of key factors.  First, hardware and bandwidth costs have dropped to a point where nearly every enterprise can reap the benefits of virtualizing...

New research has forecast that Wi-Fi networks will carry almost 60% of smartphone and tablet data traffic by 2019, reaching over 115,000PB (Petabytes) by 2019, compared to under 30,000PB this year - representing almost a four-fold increase. Addressing the Wi-Fi Offload Benefits & Challenge The new research - Mobile Data Offload & Onload: Wi-Fi, Small Cell & Network Strategies 2015-2019- found that mobile data offload, , offers several key benefits to industry stakeholders. Offload not...

New research from RiskIQ, the Digital Footprint Security company, highlights the risks posed to UK organisation’s and their customers from unauthorised or fraudulent mobile apps and unauthorised app stores. Companies spanning retailers, travel companies, media & entertainment, gambling firms and banks have far more mobile apps owned by them or referencing their brand than they are aware of, many of which come from a new breed of hacker intent on compromising their digital assets and...

Today, Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has released its findings into the little-known malware family called Stegoloader. Appearing to have been active since 2012, this particular malware uses digital steganography – the art of hiding secret information within a digital image or graphic – to conceal its true nature and to avoid detection. Pierre-Marc Bureau, the senior security researcher leading this project, discovered that Stegoloader operators are hiding a core component of the malware...