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Bomgar, a leader in secure access solutions, today announced its secure access solutions can help organisations comply with the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates. The amount, sources, and types of data that are collected and used by organisations today has grown exponentially, along with the value that can be gained from obtaining this data. How and where companies store and process data has moved from inside the traditional IT perimeter to hybrid...

Written By  John Titmus, Director, EMEA - Sales Engineering, CrowdStrike The need to be GDPR-ready may be attention-grabbing right now, but turn this on its head; would you rather be compliant or protected against breaches? If you more concerned about compliance without understanding the role of security and protection, you may face the ticking of the breach notification clock – 72 hours and counting and the related penalties associated .    Compliance does not equal...

Written By Harlan Carvey, Director of Intelligence Integration, Nuix.  The cybersecurity industry tends to focus its attention on what to do after a breach or a hack occurs. After all, this is the topic of discussion for the media, or an organisations’ partners and customers. “What does the victim do now?” But shouldn’t we at least be as interested, if not more so, in what the organisation should be doing before a breach ever occurs? This...

If you’re planning a weekend binging on Netflix while relaxing with loved ones be warned - the brand is being used by scammers to screw over unsuspecting users!   Phishers have been spoofing this popular brand for a year, trying to trick users into handing over their credentials and payment information, but this week the scammers upped their game.   Users have been reporting messages purporting to be from the popular video streaming service that...

Wombat Security Technologies (Wombat), the leading provider of cyber security awareness and training, today announces the release of its annual State of the Phish™ research report. The report findings demonstrate that the war against phishing is still on, with 76% of organizations experiencing phishing attacks in 2017 and nearly half of information security (infosec) professionals saying that the rate of attacks increased from 2016. The impacts of phishing were also more broadly felt than in 2016, with...

Wombat Security Technologies (Wombat), the leading provider of cyber security awareness and training, today announces the release of its annual State of the Phish™ research report. The report findings demonstrate that the war against phishing is still on, with 76% of organizations experiencing phishing attacks in 2017 and nearly half of information security (infosec) professionals saying that the rate of attacks increased from 2016. The impacts of phishing were also more broadly felt than in 2016, with...

Non-malware attacks have experienced what you might call a renaissance over the past couple years. As we speak it is being reported that hackers have been targeting the upcoming Winter Olympics using fileless malware. Non-malware attacks, also known as fileless attacks, use trusted programmes, native to operating systems, to gain control of computers. Virtually every organisation examined by the Carbon Black Threat Analysis United (TAU) was targeted by non-malware attacks in recent research. And since...

A new study from LastPass and Ovum reveals that despite the clear and present danger that passwords pose to organizations, many remain focused on implementing technology based on features and policy, not the user, to address the problem. More than half of IT executives surveyed rely on employees alone to monitor their own password behavior, subsequently leaving the company at risk, shining a light on the disconnect between IT policy and human behavior. The report,...

One Identity, a Quest Software business and proven leader in helping organisations get identity and access management (IAM) right, today announced the acquisition of Balabit Corp., a leading provider of privileged access management (PAM), privileged account analytics and log management solutions that help businesses reduce the risk of data breaches associated with privileged accounts. Balabit’s PAM solution provides protection from threats posed by high-risk, privileged accounts, while its privileged account analytics solution provides an additional...

A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a Secure Application Services™ company, today announced the A10 DDoS Protection Cloud, powered by Verisign™, and the A10 Thunder® 1040 TPS appliance offering advanced on-premise protection. With the availability of the latest A10 DDoS protection solutions, A10 delivers full spectrum enterprise protection to detect and mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.   A10 Networks’ hybrid approach to DDoS defences combines surgical precision on-premise protection with orchestrated cloud scrubbing, delivered in...