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Company accredited as a Friendly WiFi Approved Provider WatchGuard Technologies is helping children to stay safe online through a new partnership with the 'Friendly WiFi' scheme, designed to identify public places such as shops, restaurants, cafes and cinemas, providing secure filtered WiFi. Initiated by the UK Government with support from the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS)  and manged by the RDI trade organisation, the scheme means that children, parents and guardians can look for the...

The likelihood of being hit by a data security breach makes businesses’ ability to respond to an attack as important as their ability to defend against it, say APMG International and Logical Operations. Enterprises must equip themselves with the correct skills to react to, and prevent, cyber attacks if they are to limit their damaging effects. Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG, said: “The unfortunate reality of the situation we find ourselves in is that the...

A report from Palo Alto Networks has revealed that UK adversaries earn an average of just £8,600 from one successful attack. This is approximately £2,000 less that their German and US counterparts, who can earn £10,400 and £10,900 respectively. On average adversaries earn just over £20,000 a year, compared with a cybersecurity professional who can earn up to four times as much. The report also found 75% of adversaries in the UK are opportunistic when...

In this video, Fred Touchette, Manager of Security Research at AppRiver, explains the techniques being used by hackers to scam organisations out of money. Using a plethora of techniques, it's evident that attackers are devising ever-more sneaky methods of duping employees and ripping off organisations. When you hear what Fred has to say about spoofing and fraud, you'll think twice when reading your emails! This video is detailing findings of AppRiver's year-end Global Security Report....

Following their year-end Global Security Report, AppRiver's Manager of Security Research Troy Gill explains their findings and tells us more about what techniques and trends they spotted in 2015. Looking at how malware and the like is being delivered to victims, Troy gives an informative summary of what we've seen in 2015 and what we can expect to come. For more information, visit AppRiver's website: https://www.appriver.com/

Iron Mountain advises on the key areas to address At the end of last year, the European Parliament and Council reached agreement on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) proposed by the European Commission. The new rules, which will come into force in early 2018, represent the greatest change to data protection legislation since the dawn of the Internet. They will affect any organisation across the world that handles data of European origin. According to...

Join Jonathan French, Security Analyst at AppRiver, as he breaks down ransomware and cuts through the jargon to explain what it really is, how people fall victim and what the latest trends are in this area of IT security. Jonathan covers some of the most prevalent and effective campaigns of recent years, so tune in to get the stats, stories and status of Ransomware as we head into 2016. AppRiver has just released their 2015...

New survey reveals that enterprise storage budgets will see strong growth in 2016 as spending transitions to public cloud environments and next-generation technologies According to the results of 451 Research’s new Voice of the Enterprise survey, organizations will continue to transform their storage environments in 2016, with most expecting to increase their storage spending over the next year. Notably, the research reveals that the proportion of spending on public cloud storage services will at least...

UK cyber security innovator Glasswall Solutions sees data security rising to the top of the corporate agenda as organisations fail to cope with new threats and regulations Glasswall Solutions, the acclaimed UK cyber security company, today issued its top five predictions for 2016. The list covers the five key developments that Glasswall’s team of experts believes will have biggest impact on cyber security over the next 12 months. “Businesses around the globe now face unprecedented...

Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNS), the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, today detailed how its DatAdvantage for Windows solution helps Havas Media, a global marketing and communications group, control its data access and permissions while ensuring data security. By using DatAdvantage, Havas Media significantly reduced the time it takes for the IT team to find out who is accessing, using, and deleting information from its Windows environments. This not only helps...