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 […]

WatchGuard’s Q2 2018 Internet Security Report uncovers cybercriminals’ heightened use of credential-focused attacks, the continued prevalence of malicious Office documents, and more. WatchGuard Technologies, a leader in advanced network security solutions, has announced the findings of its Internet Security Report for Q2 2018, which explores the latest security threats affecting small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and distributed […]

Link11 research has revealed that cloud services from leading providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba were used in 25% of all DDoS attacks in Europe from July 2017 to June 2018. DDoS attackers are increasingly abusing public cloud services to launch attacks, according to new research from Link11, the cloud anti-DDoS vendor. Data from […]

A new report from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International shows that 25% of data breaches in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in the past year have led to people losing their jobs. The study, From data boom to data doom: The risks and rewards of protecting personal data, shows that 45% of […]

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity, has announced the findings of its new 2018 Security Implications of Digital Transformation Survey, which provides insights into the state of cybersecurity in organisations around the world. The findings come from an independent survey of more than 300 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and Chief […]

Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has revealed that organisations around the world are exposing themselves to unnecessary cyber-risk by failing to give IT security teams a voice when planning Internet of Things (IoT) project deployments in enterprise environments. A survey of 1,150 IT and security decision makers in Germany, France, Japan, the […]

More than a quarter (27%) of enterprise IT departments must wait at least a month before they can install vital security updates. That’s according to a new State of Software Delivery report from enterprise content delivery company Kollective, which examines the software testing and distribution bottlenecks throughout large organisations in the US and UK. Kollective’s […]

A new study shows that workers across Europe, Middle East and Africa understand security risks and consequences, but are taking less action than global counterparts. Despite being fully aware of security risks following the introduction of high-profile legislation like GDPR, workers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have the worst cybersecurity discipline in the […]