By Brandon Tansey, security research engineer, Lancope.
The seemingly endless barrage of attacks on government and enterprise networks has made it clear that organizations need to be much more proactive when it comes to security.
Citrix and Terminal Servers provide highly valuable functionality for session-based access, but to date have had an Achilles heel when it comes to privileged account management across multiple users. It’s time for organizations to secure this potential threat vector.
Tripwire has announced the results of a survey of over 270 attendees at Infosecurity Europe 2015 in Olympia, London in the United Kingdom.
Logicalis US says that there is a growing misperception that data that resides in the cloud is automatically protected just because it’s in the cloud. This, the company warns, is absolutely not the case.
Weaker security at professional services firms than their larger and better-secured clients can offer back-door entry into clients’ systems, says Ian Kilpatrick.
A Ponemon Institute survey, conducted on behalf of Informatica, has revealed that only a quarter of UK businesses believe their organization could detect a data breach at any time, and just 33 percent say their organization is very good to excellent at detecting and containing breaches.
Centrify Corporation has published the findings from a recent survey it commissioned to determine penetration and security compliance of Apple devices in the workplace.
Business continuity consultant, Charlie Maclean-Bristol FBCI, recently conducted a response exercise using cyber attack as the scenario. In this article he captures ten lessons learnt from conducting the exercise:
Some businesses decide that the risks of regular patching are too high. In this article, Toby Scott-Jackson asks whether this can ever be an acceptable approach.
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.
