The average cost of the most severe online security breaches for big businesses now starts at £1.46 million: up from £600,000 in 2014, according to the UK government’s annual Information Security Breaches Survey.
Many companies still lack the means or motivation to protect themselves from malicious insiders; but the effects of insider threats are simply too big to ignore.
Dave Larson, CTO at Corero, explains why DDoS attacks are often a diversionary tactic, allowing other attack vectors to be placed on the network unnoticed.
Companies are putting their customers’ data at risk because IT teams do not have the expertise or time to deploy today’s complicated IT security products, a new survey report from Lieberman Software Corporation claims.
To ensure the availability of high performance, mission critical IT services, IT departments need both solid monitoring capabilities and dedicated IT resources to resolve issues as they occur. But even with the right tools in place, when an abundance of alerts and alarms start streaming in, it can quickly become overwhelming
LogicNow has published the results of its Global IT Service Providers Harmony Report, an annual healthcheck of the global IT Service Management market.
The Ponemon Institute has released its annual Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, sponsored by IBM. According to the benchmark study of 350 companies spanning 11 countries, the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million1 representing a 23 percent increase since 2013.
A survey of 200 UK organizations, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tenable Network Security, Inc., has found that one in ten organizations do not think that cyber security is a priority for them, with a further 61 percent confirming it is not seen as a top three priority.
Any business – whether big or small – can be damaged as a result of even a few hours of downtime. Lost revenue equates to loss of customers, not to mention permanent loss of data. Managed service providers (MSPs) are no exception to this rule and have a responsibility to put a strong back-up policy in place
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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.
