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Security Serious Week 26-30 October What’s it all about and how can you get involved? For a number of years October has been dubbed Cyber Security Awareness Month. The problem is that not many people know that, and fewer do anything about it. Well, it’s time to change that. The last week of October (26th to 30th)we’re launching a campaign called Security Serious – five days dedicated to businesses who take security seriously and want...

Hackers come in many shapes and forms. Many of them are located thousands of miles away working for criminal gangs, or even as part of some state-sponsored army bent on stealing your secrets. Those remote hackers will always be there, and you will never come into physical contact with them. But there are also the hackers who wheedle their way into your organisation and undermine your security from the inside. They are potentially the more...

e-Spirit UK Ltd., a leading supplier of content management solutions, today unveiled the Corporate Content Cloud initiative to help organisations achieve true digital transformation by using content more effectively and consistently to improve the customer experience across all touch points and throughout the entire customer journey. Components of the initiative include on-site planning sessions, the content engine and technical support for building a Corporate Content Cloud along with integration resources and future proof integration technologies....

OPSWAT, provider of solutions to secure and manage IT infrastructure, today announced the next generation of Metascan, that can be deployed on Linux. Metascan is a multi scanning solution for ISVs, IT admins and malware researchers that detects and prevents known and unknown threats. Metascan for Linux offers improved security and scalability, as well as enhanced usability and a new user interface. Metascan for Linux supports many different 64-bit Linux distributions, including Debian, Red Hat...

Research conducted by Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNS), the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, found that over 50% of IT security professionals are not surprised that end users have access to more company data than they should have. The survey, undertaken recently at the largest security conferences in Europe and the U.S., Infosecurity Europe in London and RSA Conference in San Francisco, followed a Ponemon Institute study that revealed 71%...

How to succeed in information security In just a few years, information security has developed from being a sideline of the IT department to a fully-fledged profession in its own right. And with that development have come a whole host of qualifications and certifications covering most aspects of security, from the very technical to the strategic and managerial. So how should a newcomer to the industry plan his or her career? What are the keys...

A new report on 5,500 companies comprising 15,000 website and network scans, performed on over 1.9 million files, finds nearly half (46%) of the web applications scanned contained a ‘high security’ vulnerability such as XSS or SQL Injection, while almost 4 in 5 (87%) were affected by a ‘medium security’ vulnerability. Also many scans found the main superbugs of 2014 have not been patched, especially POODLE. Just published, the Web Application Vulnerability Report 2015 from...

In the midst of the most significant changes to data protection in the EU since 1995, ninety-seven per cent of UK consumers still don’t know what happens to sensitive information they give to call centre operatives over the phone, according to a new survey by Elitetele.com. When asked to describe what happens, over a third (36 per cent) stated they had no idea and almost two thirds (61 per cent) incorrectly identified what information operatives...

Bromium©, Inc., the pioneer of threat isolation to prevent data breaches, today announced that it is working closely with Microsoft to ensure Bromium micro-virtualization and Windows 10 work better together to provide the most secure endpoint available on the market. The partnership will bring together the new security capabilities coming with Windows 10 and Bromium’s leading micro-virtualization technology to secure enterprises against data breaches. Bromium technology complements the security features of Windows by isolating and...

With cost efficiency and collaboration big themes in higher and further education, Jisc has undertaken a study to look at where cloud can meet the needs of the education sector and if there is an appetite for it - the results were divided. The study - which surveyed IT and library leads in UK higher education (HE) and further education (FE) – found that although 45% were using cloud for business applications, such as payroll...