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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...

Technology, such as encryption and firewalls, can only go so far to protect an organisation’s data; culture is just as important, if not more so. This is according to Phil Bindley, CTO of The Bunker, who warns that organisations are fighting a losing battle if they fail to get company culture right. Data streams throughout organisations and is often used by everyone in some way. This means that without a cultural appreciation of how data...

With nearly three quarters of UK CEOs regarding cyber security as one of the top three risks to their organisations, along with over-regulation and geopolitical uncertainty1, it’s clear that increasing cyber threats and the number of recent public breaches is moving cyber security up the list of top business priorities. But if systems were breached and time was ticking, would boards and leadership teams be ready to respond? PwC’s Game of Threats™ – an interactive...

New research commissioned by IP EXPO Europe, Europe's number one enterprise IT event, has uncovered that 47% of UK IT decision makers (ITDMs) are more worried about cyber terrorism attacks now than they were 12 months ago. This was identified as the biggest cyber security risk in the future (27%), followed by attacks to national infrastructure (13%). In light of this newly perceived risk, more ‘traditional’ cyber threats such as malware, ransomware and DDos are...