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In the wake of changes to data liability regulations as part of the GDPR, companies face the challenge of unravelling their cloud supply chains in order to get the information they require to ensure compliance. A failure to audit suppliers regularly and probe the supply chain will have severe consequences. Transparency is therefore a key factor in ensuring that all parties involved have the required security mechanisms in place, says The Bunker. One of the...

With more than 9 in 10 organisations reporting a data breach in the last five years, businesses need to rapidly put measures in place to prevent the loss of Personal Identifiable Information (PII), especially with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to transform cyber security regulation in Europe with significant financial and legal (not to mention reputational) implications. A recent report from Lloyd’s, on what European businesses are doing to tackle cyber security, shows...

Latest research from online security firm Trend Micro revealed that although a vast majority (82%) of UK organisations consider ransomware a threat, a fifth (20%) of UK IT decision makers are unsure how the malware actually works. A further 11% have never heard of it. Only a third (33%) of UK IT decision makers rightly believe that the majority of ransomware infections originate from opening an attachment in an email, while a quarter (24%) believe...

The rhetoric that the data centre industry is dying is one of the biggest misconception within the IT industry, according to Greg McCulloch, CEO of Aegis Data. In fact, he states the opposite saying the colocation space is increasingly at the forefront when it comes to supporting new and innovative technology trends including cloud services and growing data volumes, across a host of dynamic and progressive markets. Speaking on a panel discussion at IP EXPO...

Employees and IT professionals in German organisations are more confident about their ability to resist the growing risks of cyberattacks and insider threats than their counterparts in the US, UK and France. Those are among the findings from a new study of more than 3,000 end-user employees and IT practitioners across the U.S. and Europe. The report was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), a leading provider of software solutions...

Veracode, a leader in securing the world’s software, today released results from a survey of 500 IT decision makers working in cybersecurity, revealing that 83-percent of respondents have released code before testing or resolving security issues for bugs. Additional findings show that while the majority believe their organisation’s software and applications are secure, nearly half (44-percent) have still spent more than a million dollars on bug bounty programmes to catch vulnerabilities. Proactive, automated vulnerability detection...

According to the Corporate IT Security Risks 2016* study conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, a single DDoS attack can cost a company over $1.6 million, depending on how quickly the attack is detected. Companies of various sizes affected by DDoS attacks over the last 12 months were asked what costs they incurred as a result. It turned out that the biggest expenses for medium and large companies (20 per cent and 19 per...

This weekend Cyber Security Challenge UK hosted the final face-to-face competition of 2016, which saw 24 candidates use their cyber security and coding skills to rescue the CEO of a fictitious energy company, who’s company had been held ransom by cyber criminals. The competition saw candidates battle against the clock and enter virtual reality using VR headsets to track down the perpetrator of the crime. The attack mimicked one of today’s most prevalent cyber vulnerabilities...

A groundbreaking partnership between DCMS, GCHQ and the nation’s top tech start-ups to develop new technologies aimed at protecting the UK from cyber attacks has been announced. Wayra UK, part of Telefónica Open Future, has been chosen to run a new cyber accelerator facility with the aim of helping UK start-ups grow and take the lead in producing the next generation of cyber security systems. The tie-up is the first step in the development of two world-leading innovation centres as part...

New research from RiskIQ, the leader in external threat management, reveals that the number of malicious apps leveraging top UK brands has grown by 130% year on year. The study by RiskIQ, examined mobile apps owned by or leveraging the brands of 45 top UK companies across five vertical sectors, to give a snapshot of the threats facing UK organisations and their customers from 2015 to today. RiskIQ discovered 107,367 brand-associated blacklisted apps, representing 43%...