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Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data protection, today announced the results of its survey into attitudes towards organisations that have experienced data breaches. The survey showed that 84 percent of respondents would reduce or eliminate the use of an organisation’s products or services following breaches, and only 16 percent of respondents would continue to use an organisation’s products or services as usual. If you found out an organisation whose products or...

Analytic software firm FICO today launched the FICO® Enterprise Security Score, a metric that reveals the likelihood an organisation will be breached due to a cyber attack. This score can be used by an enterprise to understand and shore up its defence gaps, and by third parties such as cyber insurance providers, potential partners and customers who need an objective measure of a firm’s cyber risk. The FICO Enterprise Security Score is an upgrade of...

Tenable Network Security, Inc.®, announced today that it has acquired FlawCheck, becoming the first vulnerability management company to provide security for Docker containers and support organizations’ modern DevOps processes. “Information technology is undergoing a profound change due to DevOps, containers and the mass migration of operations and infrastructure to the cloud,” said Renaud Deraison, chief technology officer and co-founder, Tenable Network Security. “Tenable understands that next-generation technologies bring with them a range of new security...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has found that the number of postings in the UK for positions requiring skills in Internet of Things (IoT) related technologies has increased by 70% over the past year, rising 120 places in the ranking of IT jobs. The figures from UK jobs statistics website IT Jobs Watch, as of 18th October, show that the growth in connected devices and implementation of smart city projects are fuelling demand...

Today, Citrix announced new research which revealed that an average of £27,818 is now spent by many local authorities on health and safety training, nearly double the spend in 2015 (£14,061 per local authority). This is considerably more than the amount being committed to data protection and IT security training - just £3,378 per local authority. This new data was obtained by a Freedom of Information (FoI) request issued to 129 local authorities, with 109...

Corero Network Security , a security solutions provider against DDoS attacks, has disclosed a significant new zero-day DDoS attack vector observed for the first time against its customers last week.  The new technique is an amplification attack, which utilizes the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): one of the most widely used protocols for accessing username and password information in databases like Active Directory, which is integrated in most online servers. While Corero’s team of DDoS mitigation...

Today, Huawei released its 2016 cybersecurity white paper ‘The Global Cyber Security Challenge -- It is time for real progress in addressing supply chain risks’ at the Information Security Forum (ISF) held in Berlin from October 22 to 25. The Huawei 2016 cybersecurity white paper reveals the continuous efforts of information and communications technology (ICT) providers across the globe in addressing supply chain security threats and in building end-to-end, reliable cybersecurity systems. It also highlights the...

A new online privacy study from internet security firm ESET has revealed that UK social media users are finally starting to recognise the importance of their online security, with two-thirds of Brits taking important steps to protect their privacy online. The study, which was carried out in October 2016 and looked at the attitudes of 1000 social media users in the UK, revealed that encouragingly 68 percent of respondents have already taken steps to protect...

FireMon, a Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) provider, today announced its acquisition of FortyCloud, a field-proven cloud infrastructure security broker. The move advances FireMon’s cloud management capabilities across all major cloud platforms providing a comprehensive view and consistent control of the complex hybrid environments enterprises must manage. According to Gartner’s 2017 Planning Guide for Cloud Computing, “Through 2020, 95% of cloud security issues will be the organization's fault, not the cloud provider's.” FireMon recognizes that managing...

Sophos discusses whether it's worth reporting ransomware. Victims of ransomware have a lot to cope with. After they’ve recovered from the shock of losing access to files, there’s the small matter of whether to pay the ransom to get them back. Regardless of the outcome, victims are left worried about how best to clean their computer to avoid being hit by a follow-up attack. In most cases reporting any of this probably doesn’t figure high...