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 […]

A majority of European and Middle East cybersecurity professionals at organisations using DevOps practices in the public cloud believe that their organisations are trading speed for security. That’s according to a newly published cloud security study commissioned by Palo Alto Networks, a global security leader, in which 72% of cybersecurity professionals indicated that the speed […]

Research from Aruba and Ponemon institute shows security teams view Machine Learning and network visibility for users and IoT devices essential for battling stealthy threats inside IT infrastructures. As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, […]

Egypt has seen a 2% drop in its software piracy rate to reach 59%, according to a study released by US-based Business Software Alliance. It revealed that Egypt has managed to decrease the commercial value of the unlicensed software, which declined significantly from US$157m in 2015 to US$64m last year. The survey quantified the volume […]

Venafi, a leading provider of machine identity protection, has announced the results of a survey of 515 IT security professionals’ views on cyberwar and nation-state security. The survey was conducted at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. According to the survey, 86% of IT security professionals say the world is currently in the middle […]