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Veracode, a leader in protecting enterprises from today’s pervasive web and mobile application threats, has released new research revealing nearly half (45%) of NHS trusts scan for application vulnerabilities just once a year, with less only 8% doing so on a daily basis. This potentially leaves them with outdated software and at an increased risk of a cyberattack, potentially exposing patient data to the wrong hands.  The new findings were gleaned from a Freedom of...

Positive Technologies has discovered a critical vulnerability in Schneider Electric StruxureWare Data Center Expert. The product from Schneider Electric, designed to monitor physical infrastructure at data centers, is used by banks, media corporations, circuit board manufacturers, insurers, medical centers, and other companies to manage the functioning of everything from cooling to backup generators at data centers. The vulnerability is rated 7.6 on the CVSS v3 scale, a high score that reflects the ability of an...

Tenable Network Security®, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity,  today makes available Tenable.io™, the industry’s first cloud-based vulnerability management platform to secure the full range of assets in the modern elastic IT environment. According to a recent Gartner report, “organizations with large or growing cloud, virtualization and DevOps deployments must select a solution with these asset demographics in mind, and must consider a vendor’s current and future commitment to these technologies.” The challenge for most...

Corporation Service Company (CSC), the leading provider of corporate domain management and online brand protection services, today announces the three biggest cyber threats digital brands will face in 2017 - and how to manage them. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are set to increase in 2017. This now common form of cyber-attack floods servers with traffic which consequently overloads networks. DDoS attack activity increased 85% year on year in 2016, whilst Deloitte recently estimated...

FireMon, the leader in Network Security Policy Management (NSPM), has released a commissioned study entitled Automate Zero Trust Policy and Enforcement conducted by independent, research-based consultancy, Forrester Consulting. The study illustrates the many benefits of using a firewall auditing tool, including increased IT staff productivity, fewer data breaches and attacks and improved visibility into network traffic.  It also points to a marked increase in the number of organizations who say they can respond to a data breach...

The security and privacy advice comparison website Comparitech.com is encouraging people that feel helpless in the wake of the Investigatory Powers Act to make their privacy concerns heard this Data Privacy Day on the 28th of January.  The Act is supposed to protect national security; however, recent FOI requests reveal that it has been used to secretly spy on UK residents as reported in the Guardian  bringing into question its abuse. Over the course of last...

F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the EMEA results of its 2017 State of Application Delivery report. The only global report of its kind is now in its third year, surveying over 2,000 IT, networking, application, and security professionals worldwide to examine the role application services play in allowing enterprises to deploy apps faster, smarter and more securely. EMEA is set for a dynamic year in this respect, as the average organisation plans to deploy...

As world leaders gathered in Davos last week, cyber security again featured high on the agenda. PwC’s CEO Survey reveals that three-quarters (76%) of UK CEOs consider cyber risks to be a significant business threat. This is second only to the availability of key skills, and ahead of changing consumer behaviour, the speed of technological change and new market entrants. The findings – based on a research sample of 1,379 global leaders, including 126 UK...

Today Intel Security released findings from a recent global study, “New Family Dynamics in a Connected World,” that reveal the extent to which technological devices are embedded in the lives of British families. The research shows families spend almost the same amount of time interacting with one another in person (37% of their time), as they spend interacting with their connected devices (35% of their time). Internet Monitoring Methods aren’t up to scratch As families...

Digital Defense, Inc., a leading provider of Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS™), today announced a new Zero Day Report from CyberSecurity Ventures that provides vulnerability trends, statistics, best practices, and resources for CISOs and IT security teams.  The report contains data and comments from industry experts from the Zero Day Initiative, Trend Micro, Black Duck, Gartner, VMWare, Digital Defense, and DARPA, among others. It paints a frightening picture for what’s on the horizon as...