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FireMon, the leader in Intelligent Security Management, today announced results from a survey conducted at the recent RSA Conference that gauged the attitudes of 350 IT security professionals towards the skills shortage in cybersecurity. It found that a remarkably high 93% of respondents place more importance on experience rather than qualifications when it comes to hiring. A further 73% claimed that it didn’t matter whether IT staff were college graduates when it came to getting...

F5 Networks today released the results of a new study into the UK’s app centric society and consumer behaviours. As the abundance of apps in work and personal life dominates technology usage, the research reveals over a quarter of Brits (26%) do not check app security measures before downloading them, even though almost 30 per cent believe hackers are likely to use shopping apps like Amazon and eBay to target their devices. Across the UK, 2,000...

A report looking into cyber threat to UK business warns attacks are “significant and growing.” The report, which was conducted by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), highlighted ransomware as the most common cyber extortion method. Ransomware is a malware that locks a user out of their device after it has covertly installed itself on the device. The malware then holds the data hostage, threatening to publish the victim’s information...

The IT Security Guru is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the IT Security CISO Debates and Conference with a comprehensive line up of topics from tackling the skills gap to GDPR, how to prevent a data breach from destroying your reputation and the Internet of Things. The UK's top CISOs and global IT Security Association Leaders will lead these exciting and current debating sessions and earn CPE credits towards your SSCP®/CISSP® and ISACA...

Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, today announced the results of a study conducted in partnership with Dimensional Research. The study looked at the rise of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployment in organizations, and to what extent it is expected to cause security problems in 2017. IIoT are the connected devices in critical infrastructure segments such as energy, utilities, government, healthcare and finance. Tripwire’s...

Today, new research has revealed that less than half (41%) of UK organisations believe they have the right security technologies to adequately protect information assets and IT infrastructure. The poll pinpoints an inability to control employees' use of devices and apps at the centre of current UK cybersecurity concerns. The global research - commissioned by Citrix and carried out by Ponemon Institute with 445 UK IT decision makers - provides a snapshot of UK organisations’...

Zero-day software vulnerabilities - security holes that developers haven't fixed or aren't aware of - can lurk undetected for years, leaving software users particularly susceptible to hackers. A new study from the RAND Corporation, based on rare access to a dataset of more than 200 such vulnerabilities, provides insights about what entities should do when they discover them. RAND researchers have determined that zero-day vulnerabilities have an average life expectancy - the time between initial...

At Embedded World in Nuremburg, 14-16 March 2017, prpl Foundation and several of its member companies will address of the security concerns presented by embedded computing systems as they become more intertwined in our lives. During two separate presentations on March 14 at the show, prpl’s chief security strategist, Cesare Garlati, will outline and demonstrate how a new separation-based approach anchored in hardware can create the trust needed across the IoT from node to cloud. ...

Organisations struggle to defend themselves against today’s clever cyberattacks. Often, it’s due to a combination of an overly complex web of security infrastructure with no common management platform and a lack of skills to make managing these technologies effective. It’s an orthodoxy repeated over and over, most vociferously by a horde of companies marketing the latest technology that earnestly promises to make it all go away. It’s a description of the problem that FireMon’s new CEO,...

The latest tranche of confidential documents released by WikiLeaks has demonstrated that the CIA and MI5 have developed techniques which enable them to use Internet of Things-connected devices, such as smart televisions, for surveillance purposes. This should serve as the starkest reminder yet to device manufacturers and their users that alarming security holes remain, which could have dire consequences if these techniques fall into the wrong hands. This is according to app security specialist Promon....