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Despite the growth in data breaches, senior executives at UK firms think their cybersecurity protection is top-notch, according to a new survey conducted by research and consultancy firm Ovum for Silicon Valley analytics firm FICO. Three out of four executives from UK firms said their firm was better prepared than their competitors, and 43 percent said their firm was a top performer. While this overconfidence was seen across the eight regions surveyed, Canada was the...

A Kaspersky Lab study revealed that news of data breaches and pressures to manage multiple online accounts are causing German employees increased levels of stress. The study revealed that 69 per cent of people admit to being stressed by news of data breaches 73 per cent of people reveal the number of passwords they have to manage is causing them undue stress 72 per cent of people having feelings of stress when it comes to...

Auth0, a global leader in Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS), today announced key findings on how companies are approaching the Customer Login Experience as new technologies like Passwordless, Multifactor Authentication, and social login options become more prevalent. According to anonymized data collected in May from a large sampling of Auth0 customers across all verticals, including financial services, media, retail, transportation, SaaS, and more, Auth0 found that companies are eager to embrace and adopt methods for streamlining the login...

RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today revealed that its researchers have discovered that the recent breach of Ticketmaster was not a one-off event as initially reported, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming campaign by the threat group Magecart affecting over 800 e-commerce sites around the world. The report highlights how Magecart has evolved tactically from hacking sites directly, to now targeting widely used third-party components. This approach grants them access to...

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ:MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced it has acquired Ataata, Inc. Ataata is a cyber security training and awareness platform designed to reduce human error in the workplace and help enable organizations to become more secure by changing the security culture of their employees. The acquisition will allow customers to measure cyber risk training effectiveness by converting behavior observations into actionable risk metrics for security professionals. The addition of security awareness...

85 percent of businesses we surveyed will use voice technology – such as Amazon’s Alexa or Microsoft’s Cortana voice-activated assistants - to communicate with customers within the next year according to research from Pindrop, the pioneer in voice security and authentication. Currently only 28 percent of businesses do so, reflecting great ambitions within industry to create a “Conversational Economy” – an ecosystem where voice, not touch, is the main technology interface for customers. Based on...

On the back of what was a fantastic first round of questioning with insightful responses from leading figures in the IT security industry, the CISO Chat segment on the IT Security Guru has returned for the second round of questioning. We have caught up with a host of CISO’s and senior security experts to get their thoughts and ideas on the 2018 cyber landscape and will include advice, guidance & problems faced. We will leave...

According to OnePoll research for Ultima, a modern infrastructure and automation services provider, 88 per cent of SMEs are considering using robotic process automation (RPA) to improve their IT security and data compliance. Robotic process automation is the use of software robots to automate business processes, for example, in back-office functions or other core areas. With the new GDPR regulations upon us, RPA is a good way of ensuring greater accuracy of processing, and thereby...

Business leaders are becoming increasingly conscious of the impact cybersecurity can have on business outcomes. Gartner, Inc. said that security leaders should harness this increased support and take advantage of six emerging trends, to improve their organisation's resilience while elevating their own standing. Trend No. 1: Senior Business Executives Are Finally Becoming Aware That Cybersecurity Has a Significant Impact on the Ability to Achieve Business Goals and Protect Corporate Reputation IT security is a board-level...

With recent news reporting that over 800 cryptocurrencies are now considered dead, is the end of Bitcoin upon us? Are cryptocurrencies a fad that will be obsolete within 5 years? Cryptocurrency Experts give their insight into whether the death of crypto is upon us. Max Kortrakul Founder and CEO of social crypto trading platform Carboneum, says: “Whilst there is uncertainty over the future of Bitcoin, the fact remains that there is a large amount of...