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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...

Despite most of the population lazily clinging onto the remnants of summer, in the world of data breaches it was as busy as ever. In the firing line this week was the “Reddit of Latin America” Taringa, who were pwned in spectacular fashion, allowing nearly all of their 28 million users to have their login credentials compromised.   Social media attacks can be potentially devastating for the victims. As so much of someone’s everyday life...

There are some things you can count on when it comes to new Android operating systems. First, they’re all named after sweet treats such as Gingerbread and Lollipop. Also, each one includes progressively better security features. Below, we’ll examine five security enhancements associated with Android Oreo. Restrictions on System Alert Windows Android Oreo, like other operating systems before it, includes what are known as System Alert Windows. As you might guess from the name, they...