Although cyberattacks caused just 6 percent of significant outages of public electronic communications networks and services in the E.U. last year, they affected more people than hardware failure, a much more common factor in service ...
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An initiative to help manufacturers reduce security risks to control systems in response to growing cyber-security threats is being introduced by Rockwell Automation. The initiative will help automation and IT professionals more effectively ...
The German government has recommended that Federal Administration and other high profile public sector departments in the country do not use Windows 8 because, it warns, it contains security backdoors that cannot be controlled or trusted, ...
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The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) has launched two new schemes to help organisations obtain the relevant expertise in the event that they are subjected to a cyber-attack. CESG, the information security arm of British ...
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If US intelligence agencies ban the computers of a Chinese company from classified networks should companies also avoid the same products? What if the vendor is one of the world’s largest PC makers? Those questions are not academic. ...
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Insurance Services Office (ISO), a provider of actuarial and underwriting information, has enhanced its cyber liability insurance (e-commerce) product to introduce new insurance policies for firms with a media liability exposure. The new ...
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More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
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A federal court judge in New Jersey on Wednesday agreed to allow the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other organizations to seek the dismissal of a closely watched data breach lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against ...
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One of the biggest challenges facing the IT industry is determining how to boost the number of skilled cyber security professionals in order to combat an epidemic of cyber crime. That's according to Jon Ramsey, CTO of Dell SecureWorks, the ...
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More than half of mid-sized businesses across Europe would refuse to do business with an organisation which has suffered a data breach, despite the fact many see data loss as just another part of everyday business. That is according to ...
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The ‘Internet of Everything’ (IoE) is expected to enable global private-sector businesses to generate at least $613 billion in global profits in 2013, according to a study by Cisco. The IoE Value Index report — ...
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More than half (58%) of European mid-sized firms refuse to do business with a company that had suffered a data breach, despite the fact that 41% believe data loss is just an inevitable part of daily business, a new study has revealed. The ...
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According to Protiviti’s 2013 Security and Privacy Survey, a large number of companies are not adequately prepared to respond to a data breach of IT security crisis, despite a broader recognition that cyber threats are more prevalent. ...
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Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a "nexus of forces" that include big data, social networking, mobile and cloud computing, according to Gartner. Ray Wagner, managing vice president of ...
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Global retailer Walmart has selected Good Technology's Good for Enterprise solution and AirWatch's enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution to manage 10,000 employee devices. Speaking exclusively to Computing at ISACA's World ...