New research from Infrascale, based on a survey of more than 500 C-level executives in small and medium sized businesses, has highlighted that data protection means different things to different people and data protection priorities depend upon an individual’s unique experiences and position.
A research study by Dimensional Research, commissioned by StorageCraft, shows that many organizations’ IT decision makers are not sufficiently prepared for recovery should the need to restore from their data backup arises.
The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has released the results of the annual survey of cyber security breaches across UK organizations. The Government surveyed UK businesses and charities to find out they approach cyber security and help Government learn more about the cyber security issues faced by industry.
Researchers at Check Point continue to see a dramatic rise in the number of COVID-19-related cyber attacks. In the past two weeks alone, the number of COVID-19-related cyber attacks have increased significantly from a few hundred to as high as over 5,000 on March 28th.
World Backup Day takes place on March 31st each year and 2020 is no exception. Despite the majority of organizations being occupied with pandemic planning, strategies, and survival it is important not to take the organizational eye of the ball when it comes to business continuity fundamentals. World Backup Day provides a timely reminder of this.
Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Keith Lunden, Nthan Brubake, and Jeremy Kennelly provide an update on ransomware which targets industrial production and critical infrastructure organizations.
PortSys has highlighted security and capability gaps that it believes exist in the VPNs that many organizations around the world are now using for business continuity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Neustar, Inc., has announced that its Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168 percent increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180 percent increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018.
Positive Technologies has published its ‘security assessment of Diameter networks’ report. The Diameter signalling protocol is used to authenticate and authorise messages and information distribution in 4G networks.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
