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Corporation Service Company (CSC), the leading provider of corporate domain management and online brand protection services, today announces the three biggest cyber threats digital brands will face in 2017 - and how to manage them. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are set to increase in 2017. This now common form of cyber-attack floods servers with traffic which consequently overloads networks. DDoS attack activity increased 85% year on year in 2016, whilst Deloitte recently estimated...

FireMon, the leader in Network Security Policy Management (NSPM), has released a commissioned study entitled Automate Zero Trust Policy and Enforcement conducted by independent, research-based consultancy, Forrester Consulting. The study illustrates the many benefits of using a firewall auditing tool, including increased IT staff productivity, fewer data breaches and attacks and improved visibility into network traffic.  It also points to a marked increase in the number of organizations who say they can respond to a data breach...

The security and privacy advice comparison website Comparitech.com is encouraging people that feel helpless in the wake of the Investigatory Powers Act to make their privacy concerns heard this Data Privacy Day on the 28th of January.  The Act is supposed to protect national security; however, recent FOI requests reveal that it has been used to secretly spy on UK residents as reported in the Guardian  bringing into question its abuse. Over the course of last...

F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the EMEA results of its 2017 State of Application Delivery report. The only global report of its kind is now in its third year, surveying over 2,000 IT, networking, application, and security professionals worldwide to examine the role application services play in allowing enterprises to deploy apps faster, smarter and more securely. EMEA is set for a dynamic year in this respect, as the average organisation plans to deploy...

As world leaders gathered in Davos last week, cyber security again featured high on the agenda. PwC’s CEO Survey reveals that three-quarters (76%) of UK CEOs consider cyber risks to be a significant business threat. This is second only to the availability of key skills, and ahead of changing consumer behaviour, the speed of technological change and new market entrants. The findings – based on a research sample of 1,379 global leaders, including 126 UK...

Today Intel Security released findings from a recent global study, “New Family Dynamics in a Connected World,” that reveal the extent to which technological devices are embedded in the lives of British families. The research shows families spend almost the same amount of time interacting with one another in person (37% of their time), as they spend interacting with their connected devices (35% of their time). Internet Monitoring Methods aren’t up to scratch As families...

Digital Defense, Inc., a leading provider of Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS™), today announced a new Zero Day Report from CyberSecurity Ventures that provides vulnerability trends, statistics, best practices, and resources for CISOs and IT security teams.  The report contains data and comments from industry experts from the Zero Day Initiative, Trend Micro, Black Duck, Gartner, VMWare, Digital Defense, and DARPA, among others. It paints a frightening picture for what’s on the horizon as...

Businesses under five years old are twice as likely to compromise the confidentiality of sensitive information than more established businesses. This is one of the findings of recent research into information management and security practices in the mid-market, commissioned by leading storage and information management services company Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM). The in-depth study of mid-market businesses across Europe and North America found that staff at recently established organisations expose their businesses to information risk...

Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, announces the results of its 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, issued in conjunction with analyst firm 451 Research. Sixty-eight percent of respondents have experienced a breach with 26 percent experiencing a breach in the last year – both numbers that rose from last year. Paradoxically, overall security spending is also up; in 2017 73 percent of organisations increased IT security spending – a marked...

Developed in conjunction with cybersecurity veteran Byron Acohido, DomainTools' Cybersecurity Report Card surveyed more than 550 security analysts, IT managers, and executives, and revealed that the majority of organizations are struggling to monitor and prevent cyberattacks on their network. More than one in four organizations have been breached in the past 12 months, while shockingly 23 percent aren’t sure if they have been breached or not. When asked to grade their organization’s cybersecurity program, 43 percent...