Steve Blow explains that while businesses must remain consistently focussed on digital transformation in order to not fall to the back of the pack, digital transformation efforts could be futile if businesses don’t address and improve their IT resilience.
Don Boxley looks at some important questions that need to be asked to ensure that business continuity and data security are considered during digital transformation projects.
Taking a security-first approach involves prioritizing security in all areas of the business, including its people, processes and applications; and requires moving away from a simple ‘protecting the perimeter’ approach. Justin Calmus highlights four key areas that organizations need to consider when moving in this direction.
According to Positive Technologies, the number of new vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) grew by 30 percent between 2017 and 2018. The US still has a lead in the number of Internet-accessible ICS components, with 95,661 IP addresses for ICS components found in 2018 compared to 64,287 in 2017.
Bitglass has released ‘Threatbusters’, its 2019 Insider Threat Report. In partnership with a cyber security community, Bitglass surveyed IT professionals about insider threats, as well as what their organizations are doing to defend against them.
It may not be the most interesting aspect of protecting your business but optimizing policy configuration for firewalls and other security devices is an important consideration. Asher Benbenisty examines four common security policy errors, and shows how organizations can avoid them.
Keysight has published the third annual Security Report from Ixia, its cybersecurity and visibility business. The 2019 report analyzes the biggest security findings over the past year from Ixia’s Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Research Center.
The Cyber Security Breaches Survey is a quantitative and qualitative survey of UK businesses and charities which is published each year by the Government, providing a useful record of how cyber attacks have developed.
Venafi has released the results of a study of the scale and frequency of certificate-related outages on critical business infrastructure. Over 550 chief information officers from the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia participated in the study.
The entire Continuity Central website is scanned daily by Sucuri to ensure that no malware exists within the site. This means that you can browse with complete confidence.
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.
