Orange Cyberdefense, Europe’s largest managed security services provider, has announced the findings of its inaugural Security Navigator, which reveals a huge 23% decline in the number of recorded malware incidents in 2019, a year which also saw an increase in the total number of security events. Security Navigator 2020 combines the unique perspective of Orange, […]

The media industry suffered 17 billion credential stuffing attacks between January 2018 and December 2019 according to a new report from Akamai, the intelligent Edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences. The Akamai 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in the Media Industry report found that 20% of the 88 billion total credential stuffing attacks […]

The fourth annual report from Mimecast finds greatest new concern is email and web spoofing.   Mimecast, a leading email and data security company, has unveiled its fourth-annual State of Email Security 2020 report. This report summarises details from 1,025 global IT decision makers on the current state of cybersecurity. Providing year-over-year comparisons, along with […]

May 7 marks World Password Day – a day designed to encourage individuals and organisations across the world to re-evaluate their password security. Often described as the ‘keys to the kingdom’, if a password is able to get into the wrong hands, it can cause chaos. And with more and more of our activities – […]

A new survey sponsored in part by Nozomi Networks has found that as critical infrastructure organisations converge their IT, OT, IoT and physical systems to improve overall performance, employees are the biggest threat to cyber and physical security. The independent report, Weathering the Perfect Storm: Securing the Cyber-Physical Systems of Critical Infrastructure, queried over 400 C-level […]

Findings cast a spotlight on the growing pressures faced by information security workers and the need for more to be done to protect their mental health. More than 40% of respondents in a Twitter poll run by Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s number one information security event, singled out human skill and expertise as the most important […]

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, has released the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report in the GCC. The report shares statistics and insights gleaned from FireEye Mandiant investigations around the globe in 2019. Key findings include: Organisations are detecting and containing attacks faster In the 2020 M-Trends report, the global median dwell time, defined as the […]

A survey from SANS Institute has revealed how Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has evolved in EMEA. The SANS 2020 CTI Survey has reported that CTI has evolved from small, ad-hoc tasks performed disparately across an organisation to, in many cases, robust programmes with their own staff, tools and processes that support the entire organisation. “In […]

Mimecast, a leading email and data security company, has announced the availability of the Mimecast Threat Intelligence Report: RSA Conference Edition. The report is designed to provide technical analysis from Mimecast threat researchers on major campaigns carried out by threat actors, trends that are emerging from these attacks and an assessment of likely future trends […]

According to the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report – Global Edition, with research and analysis by IDC, organisations reached a global cloud tipping point causing them to struggle with security challenges of Digital Transformation (DX). Today, half (50%) of all corporate data is stored in the cloud and nearly half (48%) of that data is […]