Bitglass, the next-gen CASB, has released its 2018 Financial Breach Report. The study uncovers information about the top threats in financial services and the industry’s latest and largest breaches among other findings. 2018 has been far more dangerous than 2016, the last year that Bitglass conducted such a report. In this year’s study, there were […]
After documenting improvements in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance over the past six years (2010 – 2016), Verizon’s 2018 Payment Security Report (PSR) now reveals a concerning downward trend with companies failing compliance assessments and perhaps, more importantly, not maintaining – full compliance. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI […]
Symantec, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has released research about cryptojacking – one of the biggest trends of 2018. Cryptojacking involves cybercriminals surreptitiously running coinminers on victims’ devices without their knowledge and using their Central Processing Unit (CPU) power to mine cryptocurrencies. This has been such a big trend this year that Symantec has […]
Synopsys has released BSIMM9, the latest version of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) designed to help organisations plan, execute and measure their software security initiatives (SSIs). The ninth iteration of BSIMM reflects data collected over a 10-year study of real-world SSIs across 120 firms. BSIMM9 highlights the impact of cloud transformation, the emergence of a […]
The cybersecurity market has reached an infection point whereby organisations need to shift their strategies and have a new, proactive approach to their cybersecurity, according to a report by 451 Research. Panaseer, a cybersecurity software company that enables organisations to become Cyber Security Risk Intelligent, commissioned the analysis to get insight into industry opportunity for […]
Alert Logic, a leading provider of security-as-a-service solutions, has released its latest cybersecurity analysis, Critical Watch Report: The State of Threat Detection 2018, which shows cyberattackers are gaining vastly greater scale through new techniques such as kill-chain compression and attack automation, expanding the range of organisations under constant attack regardless of industry or size. To […]
New research highlights the cost of web browsing to businesses as WebCache files slow logins, cause network performance and bandwidth issues and increase storage needs. New research from user profile and web data management specialist Avanite has revealed that bloated WebCaches are causing significant losses to businesses in terms of productivity, IT costs and data […]
McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: September 2018, examining the growth and trends of new cyberthreats in Q2 2018. In the second quarter, McAfee Labs saw the surge in cryptomining malware growth that began in Q4 2017 continue through the first half of 2018. McAfee also saw the continued […]
IoT devices were attacked with more than 120,000 modifications of malware in the first half of 2018 – more than triple the amount of IoT malware seen in the whole of 2017. That’s according to the Kaspersky Lab IoT report, with the cybersecurity vendor warning that the snowballing growth of malware families for smart devices […]
A recent survey by Gartner has revealed that saving time and money are the top reasons why consumers would use Artificial Intelligence (AI). “AI is among the technologies that consumers consider using for tangible and more ‘serious’ benefits, as opposed to socialising, projecting self-image and having fun – three common reasons for using other personal […]
