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Veracode, a leader in protecting enterprises from today’s pervasive Web and mobile application threats, today issued findings from a joint NYSE Governance Services/Veracode survey of 276 board members revealing how cybersecurity-related corporate liability is being prioritsed in the boardroom. Nine out of 10 of those surveyed believe regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should hold businesses liable for cyber breaches if due care has not been followed, and more than 50 percent expect...

Only 39% of UK employees recognise that intellectual property (IP) could damage their company if leaked, according to new research from data loss prevention company Clearswift. This laissez faire attitude is particularly worrying, given many employees have both access and a relatively high propensity to lose or give away data. 44% of respondents say they have access to such sensitive IP, with 35% also saying they have access to organisation’ information that is above their...

Checkmarx, a global leader in software security testing and protection solutions, and  AppSec Labs, mobile application security experts, today released a report entitled The State of Mobile Application Security 2014-2015. The report showed the alarming rate of mobile application vulnerability finding that each app is exposed to an average of 9 different vulnerabilities. The report also casts doubt on the common myth that iOS is more secure than Android by highlighting that in the field...

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) – Businesses that protect their websites with a professional DDoS mitigation service are better prepared to defend against DDoS attacks.  DDOS defence preparedness alleviates the fear, stress and worry caused by being on the receiving end of an extortion or ransom note. This is one of the findings from an internal survey by Neustar, which examined the impact of ransom-type attacks on 157 of its EMEA customers. “The best defence against...

A new portal, that hopes to offer a better way for IT Admins to find Cloud Service Providers or MSPs, has launched. It has been sponsored by AppRiver, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider offering award-winning email and Web security solutions to businesses of all sizes. The portal is spearheaded by its EMEA Marketing Director, Jordi Vilanova. CloudTango.org wanted to build a better way for IT Admins to find Cloud Service Providers or MSP. This new resource intends...

PhishMe® Inc., the leading provider of phishing threat management solutions, today announced the appointment of Gary Warner as Chief Threat Scientist where he will work closely with PhishMe CTO, Aaron Higbee, and his team to provide strategic direction on PhishMe products and technology. Gary joins the team from Malcovery Security, recently acquired by PhishMe, where he served as co-founder and chief technologist, leading the company’s threat intelligence product innovation and architecture development. As the visionary,...

IID, the source for clear cyberthreat intelligence, today announced the immediate availability of the IID and Ponemon Institute survey entitled, “Exchanging Cyber Threat Intelligence: There Has to Be a Better Way.” The second annual survey includes insight from 692 IT and IT security professionals from both global businesses and government agencies, who answered more than three-dozen questions around threat intelligence sharing. The majority of organizations where those employees work have more than 1,000 employees. When...

Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, today announced the results of a Vanson Bourne study* into the true underlying nature, rationale and drivers behind a cloud migration. The study, which polled 500 UK IT and business decision-makers who have either been through or are currently planning a cloud migration project, found that the decision to migrate business applications to the cloud is now coming directly from the boardroom rather than the IT department....

A new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation has revealed that 83 percent of IT professionals do not believe advanced persistent threats are over-hyped, however they are still very naïve about the length of time it would take to identify an advanced persistent threat on their own corporate network. The study was carried out at Black Hat Conference 2015 and looked at the attitudes of nearly 150 IT security professionals.  It revealed that 10 percent of IT professionals believe it...

In its Q3 IT Threat Evolution report, Kaspersky Lab has published the details of the key security incidents of the quarter. Using statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), which obtains information from millions of Kaspersky Lab product users in 213 countries, the report sheds light on the increase in mobile threats, the attempted theft of money from online bank accounts and targeted cyber-attacks in the evolving threat landscape.  Mobile threats 323,374 new malicious mobile...