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Dimension Data, the global ICT services and solutions provider, and Cisco, have joined forces and published a white paper to help organisations stay ahead of ransomware threats. Called Ransomware: The Pervasive Business Disruptor the paper looks at ransomware trends and impacts, and how to respond before a threat becomes a business disruptor. According to a Cisco 2017 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report, ransomware is one of the main threats to digital business. Globally, around 49% of...

With the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) deadline set for 25 May next year, an independent global survey commissioned by WatchGuard Technologies, shows that many organisations are ill-prepared due to uncertainty about the criteria for compliance. The results show that a staggering 37 percent of respondents simply don’t know whether their organisation needs to comply with GDPR, while 28 percent believe they don't need to comply at all. Respondents in the UK appear better informed,...

A major shift is taking place in how organisations select their financial management applications, with a migration to cloud applications happening faster than expected, according to Gartner, Inc. A recent Gartner survey of senior finance executives found that by 2020, 36 per cent of organisations will use the cloud to support more than half of their transactional systems of record.   Gartner surveyed 439 global senior financial executives (including 410 who had implemented cloud strategic...

Webinar: Artificial Intelligence - how could it potentially help bridge the Cyber-skills Gap Date: 4th October 2017 Time: 10:30am Duration: 75 minutes Speakers include: Pete Warren, Chairman at Cyber Security Research Institute; Andrew Jones, Professor of Cyber Security at University of Hertfordshire; Mark Deem, Partner at Cooley LLP.   Throughout Security Serious Week this year, during the first week of October, it will be putting on webinars every day to tackle the theme of “Building...

Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today released its 2017 Midyear Security Roundup: The Cost of Compromise, detailing the threats from the first half of 2017, which continue to disrupt and challenge IT planning. Businesses are faced with increased ransomware, Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams and Internet of Things (IoT) attacks, and now also contend with the threat of cyberpropaganda. Trend Micro detected more than 82 million ransomware...

Webinar: Incentives to make the UK a hub for cyber-security companies Date: 3rd October 2017 Time: 10:00am Duration: 75 minutes Speakers include: Andrew Mulvenna, founder of Brightpearl; Katie Bilton at CyLon Throughout Security Serious Week this year, during the first week of October, it will be putting on webinars every day to tackle the theme of “Building Awareness and Bridging the Cyber-Skills Gap through Creativity and Diversity”. The UK has become somewhat a hub for...

According to the results of a new survey to be released by SANS Institute on the 6th September, ransomware is considered the top overall threat to businesses’ data, with user credentials and privileged accounts the most common data types involved in significant breaches.   The ‘Sensitive Data at Risk: The SANS 2017 Data Protection Survey’ questioned IT and security administrators, engineers, managers, developers and privacy experts globally, across a wide variety of industries. These front-line...

A strong performance lives long in the memory. It is the ticket that ensures audiences return wanting more. In business, every company survives on delivering complete customer satisfaction. Yet, one bad experience can undermine confidence and trade can quickly head for the nearest exit. With threat actors committing some of the largest data breaches in the last year, analysts have reported that more than one billion customer records have been accessed globally. This trend is...

Today it is revealed that cybercrime attacks have reached their highest-ever levels, both in the UK and internationally. ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company®, which monitors more than 24 billion online transactions each year, has seen a staggering 144 million attacks over the last 90 days. In the UK, attack levels have risen 150 percent since 2015 – reaching 20 million attacks by the end of the second quarter of 2017. However, it’s the fast-growing digital...

Global credit-report agency Equifax has been hit by a critical data breach, affecting the private data of around 143m customers. Cyberattacks are thought to have gained access to sensitive customer information such as names, social security numbers, dates of births, addresses and driving licenses, leaving those affected extremely vulnerable to identity theft. Additionally, Equifax has stated intruders had accessed files containing credit card numbers for roughly 209,000 US consumers as well as “certain dispute documents...