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FireMon, the market leader in security management and risk assessment software, has today announced the appointment of Satin H. Mirchandani as President & CEO. Satin will lead the company as it continues to grow faster than the market and increase the already substantial enterprise customer list. “FireMon created the network security policy management market and continues to lead through innovation and a strong focus on customer satisfaction. The talent, professionalism, and discipline I’ve seen the...

The latest research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has raised concerns about the safety of over-55s online. The findings of the research, in a report entitled: ‘Older and wiser? A look at the threats faced by over-55s online’, demonstrates that this age group can behave insecurely online and often become victims of fraud. The research, which questioned 12,546 Internet users across the globe, suggests that the older generation is a very attractive target for...

Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, today released research showing that 82 per cent of IT decision makers admit they are hoarders of data and digital files. Following its Data Genomics* project that analysed tens of billions of files and their attributes from many of its customers’ unstructured data environments, Veritas conducted a study to analyse the data storage habits of IT decision makers and global office professionals. The research, commissioned by Veritas, was...

71% of UK board directors want companies to be penalised for failing to meet basic cyber security requirements, according to new research from global cyber security and risk mitigation expert NCC Group.  In what appears to be a sea change in business opinion, over three quarters (77%) believe that regulators should take a tougher stance against companies that are found to have insufficient cyber defences.  NCC Group commissioned research consultancy ComRes to survey 200 board...

Yahoo has confirmed that  more than 500 million account holders' details have been compromised in a data breach. The breach occurred in late 2014, and was likely carried out by a state-sponsored actor, Yahoo said in a statement. Personal information compromised in the breach includes usernames, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and hashed passwords, as well as encrypted and unencrypted security questions and answers.  Though there is no evidence to suggest the hackers responsible...

While 82 percent of respondents believe the IT security industry is making progress against cyber attacks, those gains are undercut by egregious security practices in critical areas such as privileged account security, third-party vendor access and cloud, according to results from a new global survey commissioned and released by CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR). The 10th annual CyberArk Global Advanced Threat Landscape Survey 2016, themed “Cyber Security: Past, Present & Future,” examines whether global enterprises are learning...

New research by OneLogin, a leader in cloud-based Identity & Access Management (IAM), reveals a lack of trust in UK businesses and their remote workforces, with half of those in full-time work believing that employees below mid-manager level should not be granted remote access to the corporate network, from both work-owned devices (47 per cent) and personally-owned devices (54 per cent). In addition, 27 per cent believe remote access should only be granted to senior...

Employee access to social media (43%) and bring your device to work (35%) are considered to be the biggest obstacles to preventing security breaches and fraud according to fraud prevention managers and directors. The biggest fraud prevention priority for the majority of organisations is creating a fraud aware culture (86%). Yet, this is also considered the hardest priority to address (18%). The survey of more than 200 fraud prevention managers and directors was commissioned by...

AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management™ (USM) and crowd-sourced threat intelligence, today released the results of a study that looks at the current state of threat intelligence. AlienVault polled 222 security professionals at Black Hat 2016 to learn how their security teams have changed over the last two years, how the security landscape has evolved over the past 12 months, and how they are incorporating threat intelligence into their malware defence strategies.  Investment...

The non-profit prpl Foundation today unveiled its global study on the use of smart devices in a domestic setting entitled, “The prpl Foundation Smart Home Security Report.”  The one-of-a-kind study, which was conducted through OnePoll, covers the proliferation of smart device use and security within the home.  It surveyed 1,200 respondents across the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan to discover the measures people take to secure their smart homes and their attitudes about...