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Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, today announced the availability of its 2017 Cloud Security Report. The report analyses customer data from more than 3,800 Alert Logic cloud, on-premises and hybrid cloud customers over an 18 month period, from August 1, 2015 to January 31, 2017.  Report findings are based on an analysis of more than 2 million security incidents captured in Alert Logic intrusion detection systems and escalated by...

  At last year’s Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, Andrew Hardie, Chair of the BCS DevSecOps Group, was awarded the title of Cloud Security Superhero. I chased him up to see what his overview thoughts on the event were and ask why is it important to support and encourage people to take part. What is the significance of the Unsung Heroes Awards for the cybersecurity community? “It’s to recognize those who make those contributions that are below...

The continued proliferation of mobile applications can only be maintained if security considerations make up a key part of the design and implementation process. This is according to DOGFI.SH Mobile who suggests that as the mobile app market continues to mature, any flaws in an app’s security architecture will become clearer, with users becoming increasingly intolerant to these weaknesses. Research from McAfee has revealed that mobile malware has grown by 79 per cent in the...

IBM today unveiled IBM Z, the next generation of the world’s most powerful transaction system, capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day. The new system also introduces a breakthrough encryption engine that, for the first time, makes it possible to pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service or database all the time. IBM Z’s new data encryption capabilities are designed to address the global epidemic of data breaches, a...

The leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, Alert Logic, has announced the results of their recent survey, revealing the latest data points and trends in cybersecurity. The survey was conducted in the UK, Benelux and Nordics, amongst 317 professionals in the security industry. Cybersecurity is all about preventing, detecting and remediating both internal and external threats which companies and government organisations face daily. A continuous stream of new technologies, in various forms, have emerged as a...

FireMon today announced that its market leading Intelligent Security Management, which helps organizations worldwide centrally manage their on-premises firewalls, is available for cloud and native cloud firewalls. From traditional, on-premises or cloud firewalls such as Juniper Networks®, Palo Alto Networks® or Cisco®, to native cloud security controls like Amazon Web Services, regardless of what an enterprise’s security environment looks like, FireMon can manage it. In its recent State of the Firewall Report, a global benchmarking...

Just over a year ago, the European Commission approved and adopted the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR is the biggest change in data protection laws in Europe since the 1995 introduction of the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive, also known as Directive 95/46/EC. The GDPR aims to strengthen the security and protection of personal data in the EU and will replace the Directive and all local laws relating to it. AWS...

These might be boom times for anyone involved in application containerisation but lurking just under the surface are a host of security issues that development teams are only now starting to get to grips with. It’s an old story for the security industry that has played out numerous times in the past: a new technology arrives on the back of big promises and for a while security gets pushed to the side in the excitement....

A recent survey has found that one third of respondents describe the state of security monitoring within their organisation as “complex and chaotic”. AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management™ (USM™) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, has released results of a survey showing that cloud security remains a thorn in the side of security professionals, with many still struggling to monitor this environment effectively. Conducted at RSA 2017, 974 conference participants weighed in on cloud...

Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team has discovered a new sophisticated wiper malware, called StoneDrill. Just like another infamous wiper, Shamoon, it destroys everything on the infected computer. StoneDrill also features advanced anti-detection techniques and espionage tools in its arsenal. In addition to targets in the Middle East, one StoneDrill target has also been discovered in Europe, where wipers used in the Middle East have not previously been spotted in the wild. In 2012,...