Venafi, the inventor and a leading provider of machine identity protection, has announced the results of a consumer survey on government-mandated encryption backdoors and data protection. The survey evaluated the opinions of over 4,120 consumers in the US, UK, France and Germany. According to the survey, consumers do not trust major cybersecurity talking points pushed […]

Forescout Technologies, a leader in device visibility and control, has released a new report Rise of Disruptionware: A Cyber-Physical Threat to Operational Technology Environments, that explores how the nature of cyberattacks is changing. The research found that, while the traditional concept of malware damaging operations  for monetary gain are still present, a new breed of […]

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has released Cloud-Native: The Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption and Risk Report, covering new research on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) incidents in the cloud. According to industry analysts, IaaS is now the fastest growing area of the cloud due to the speed, cost and reliability with which organisations can create and deploy applications. The results of […]

Businesses are more aware than ever of how cybercrime could impact their reputation and their bottom line. Annual reports such as the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and the Verizon Insider Threat Report continue to flag those cyberthreats and trends that should be on every organisation’s radar. However, while knowledge is essential in understanding the […]

There is a misplaced confidence in existing cybersecurity solutions and the beleaguered IT department that is leaving corporate doors wide open for attack.  The World Wide Worx State of Enterprise Security in South Africa 2019 report found that 99% of IT departments feel confident that they can protect the company and yet 45% say they […]

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly turning to innovative technologies in the fight against fraud. Simon Price, VP Sales, OpenText Legal Tech, tells us how the UK’s Serious Fraud Office is utilising OpenText solutions to investigate and prosecute cases efficiently in an age of data explosion. The latest figures from UK Finance revealed that the Dedicated Card and […]

EMEA is a global hotspot for brute force access attacks, according to research from F5 Labs. The analysis forms part of the Application Protection Report 2019, which explores the fact that most applications are attacked at the access tier, circumventing legitimate processes of authentication and authorisation. Brute force attacks are typically defined as either 10 […]

The Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has discovered that the threat group LYCEUM is targeting organisations in sectors of strategic national importance, including oil and gas and possibly telecommunications. The previously unobserved threat group has been targeting critical infrastructure for more than 12 months, with research indicating that the group may have been active from […]

Nominet has announced its Cybersecurity and the Cloud research, which revealed that 61% of security professionals believe the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in cloud environments compared to on-premise. The research, surveying nearly 300 UK and US C-level security professionals, marks a tipping point in the perception of security of […]

BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, has announced the availability of a new study that evaluates how executives understand and effectively measure their cybersecurity performance and adequately communicate it to the board, senior executives, customers and critical stakeholders. The September 2019 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BitSight titled, Better Security And […]