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UK organisations are ill-equipped to mitigate today’s increasingly complex threat landscape, according to new research from Node4, the Cloud, Data Centre and Communications specialist. The survey of 100 UK-based IT decision makers reveals 41% do not know how many security breaches their organisation has suffered in the last 12 months. The survey, carried out with IT decision makers (ITDMs) in organisations of 50 or more employees, reveals a lack of protection against increasingly sophisticated security...

The proliferation of cyber threats against UK enterprises has resulted in the British government demanding organisations do more to protect their corporate network and the data that sits within it. While the majority of cyber attacks originate from the outside, Julian Cook, Director of UK Business at M-Files Corporation, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, highlights the critical importance of businesses also understanding and defending against security risks and threats that originate from...

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today published the Q1 2016 State of the Internet – Security Report. The quarterly report provides a detailed view of the global cloud security threat landscape and in-depth analysis and insight into malicious activity observed across the Akamai Intelligent Platform™. Download the latest State of the Internet – Security Report at stateoftheinternet.com/security-report. “We have continued to witness significant growth in the...

As much as a fifth (19%) of UK organisations avoid notifying customers of data breaches, according to research from Trend Micro. When asked if their business has a formal process in place to notify the data protection authority within 72 hours* in the event of a data breach, 57% of organisations said yes and that they always do. However, almost a fifth (19%) said they have a process in place but purposely avoid notifying customers...

PhishMe, a global provider of phishing-defense solutions for the enterprise, today revealed that its analysis of phishing email campaigns from the first three months of 2016 has seen a 6.3 million increase in raw numbers, due primarily to a ransomware upsurge against the last quarter of 2015. That is a staggering 789% jump. Published today, PhishMe’s Q1 2016 Malware Review identified three key trends previously recorded throughout 2015, but have come to full fruition in...

Kaspersky Lab’s latest report shows that children around the world spend most of their time online using communication tools such as social networks, email, chats, etc. (accounting for 67 per cent of online activity). Gaming portals (11 per cent) and websites containing information about alcohol, narcotics and tobacco (9 per cent) came second and third, respectively. At the same time, there is a noticeable difference between children’s interests in different countries. The report shows anonymised...

NSFOCUS, a global network and application security provider, today announced the launch of NSFOCUS Cloud, a world-wide cloud-deployed security platform.  NSFOCUS Cloud provides customers with easy access to advanced security services and offers comprehensive, end-to-end protection from a single source when used in combination with NSFOCUS’ on-premises equipment. The initial offering, NSFOCUS Cloud DPS (DDoS Protection Solution), underscores the company’s commitment to protect enterprises against large-scale, debilitating and costly cyber attacks. The product is a...

The Guru was lucky enough to get this Q&A with ex-NSA analyst and current VP of cybersecurity at Masergy David Venable - here's what we found out. Can you tell me a little about insider threats – how much of a problem are they? While the entire threat landscape is changing dramatically with the increased sophistication of adversaries, nation state and state-sponsored actors, and rapidly evolving attack surfaces, one of the few things that hasn't...

The Internet of Things (IoT) industry must establish a common set of security standards of which to adhere, according to Oscar Arean, technical operations manager at disaster recovery provider Databarracks. Arean also argues that IoT risks should feature in organisations’ continuity plans if they want to be protected. Research carried out by Gartner has forecasted that 6.4 billion connected devices will be in use worldwide in 2016. Further research from Gartner predicts worldwide spending on...

The news that more than 65 million Tumblr users could find their passwords and usernames for sale online, is just the latest in a long line of data breaches that should serve as a reminder to both individuals and organisations that the password represents a major security flaw. This is according to Dave Worrall, CTO of Secure Cloudlink, who argues that incidents like this are to be expected, as passwords are simply no longer fit...