How safe is your email?
Despite the rising popularity of other communication and collaboration methods like Zoom and Teams, email remains at the core of business correspondence. However, it also remains a popular vehicle for delivering cyberattacks and other unwelcome material.
Secure email company Avanan has produced an infographic looking at email safety.
IT outages can cause severe business damage in hours
A new survey finds that 83 percent of companies would suffer business damage during the first 24 hours of an outage and its aftermath.
The study from Dimensional Research on behalf of Netenrich also uncovers a number of contradictions in enterprises' attitude to scaling their security operations.
Cybersecurity storm threatens the hybrid workplace
A new report from HP Wolf Security looks at how hybrid work is changing user behavior and creating a 'perfect storm' of cybersecurity challenges for IT departments.
The research shows that a growing number of users are buying and connecting unsanctioned devices without the IT team's approval. It also highlights that threat levels are rising, with attackers increasingly successful at bypassing defenses and tricking users into initiating attacks through phishing.
APIs leave businesses open to attack
APIs are designed to be fast and easy pipelines between different platforms. They offer convenience and user experience which makes APIs essential to many businesses, but it also makes them attractive targets for cybercriminals.
A new report from Akamai, produced in collaboration with Veracode, highlights the frustrating pattern of API vulnerabilities, despite improvements that have been made in software development life cycles (SDLCs) and testing tools.
Revealing the industries most hit by ransomware
New research from cloud encryption specialist NordLocker looks at which industries are the most popular targets for ransomware, analyzing 1,200 companies hit by 10 infamous ransomware gangs in 2020 and 2021.
Perhaps surprisingly the construction sector tops the list with 93 attacks, followed by manufacturing on 86, finance on 69, healthcare on 65, and with education rounding out the top five on 63.
Majority of businesses not protecting their sensitive data in the cloud
The latest cloud security study from Thales shows that 83 percent of businesses are still failing to encrypt half of the sensitive data they store in the cloud.
This is despite the fact that 40 percent of organizations have experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months.
How software engineers can avoid burnout [Q&A]
Managing burnout isn't easy at the best of times, and with the extra stress created by the pandemic, it’s more difficult than ever. With the ubiquitous shift to remote working, people are more isolated and struggling to separate their home lives from work.
Grappling with this 'new normal' has been challenging across the board. For software engineers -- professionals who are historically prone to burnout -- it's been especially hard.
COVID-19 boosts digital transformation and continuous intelligence
There aren't many good things to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study from Sumo Logic shows that it has accelerated digital transformation and piqued interest in adopting continuous intelligence.
Continuous intelligence (CI) allows real-time analytics to be integrated into business operations. Sumo's study shows that 74 percent of cloud-mature companies recognize the value of providing access to real-time data in this way, while 58 percent of organizations going through cloud transformation agree.
New solution improves visibility and security in the cloud
Enterprises are increasingly turning to the cloud to boost their digital transformation efforts. But they need to address the security needs of this environment to avoid problems caused by breaches, misconfigurations and more.
Zero trust specialist Illumio is launching a new CloudSecure solution to offer organizations agentless visibility and enable teams to build and manage dynamic cloud workload policies using native controls in their public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
Innovation pressure leads to security steps being skipped
A new study shows that 70 percent of respondents 'frequently' or 'always' complete projects without carrying out all security steps, due to tight timelines and pressure to innovate.
The report from Invicti Security also shows that 78 percent of development and security respondents have suffered increased stress levels this year and 73 percent have actually considered quitting their job because of it.
Over half of healthcare apps have a serious vulnerability
A new study from the Application Security Division of NTT Ltd reveals that 52 percent of applications in the healthcare industry have at least one serious vulnerability -- rating 'high' or 'critical' on the CVSS scale -- open throughout the year.
However, healthcare has performed 14 percent better than the industry average on remediating critical risks in the past three months. This represents a positive trend for healthcare, which historically performs below average based on a rolling 12-month analysis.
62 percent of organizations not confident they can prevent data loss
Data exfiltration remains a significant threat and despite large investments in security tools, organizations are not confident they can stop it according to a new report.
The survey of 255 cybersecurity professionals, conducted by Osterman for data privacy and security company BlackFog, finds 62 percent lack confidence in the ability of their security tools to prevent data exfiltration.
The increasingly critical role of data in the enterprise [Q&A]
The importance of data has increased exponentially in recent years, for businesses of all sizes. But there are increasing challenges too, posed by privacy regulation, alternative data and more.
We spoke to Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data to find out more about the key role of data in the enterprise and how businesses can use it effectively.
AKG Ara -- a stylish and versatile USB microphone [Review]
With more and more of us working from home and conducting our business and personal lives via video calls, microphone quality on our devices has become a serious issue.
The in-built mics on laptops are OK but if you want to make presentations or create podcasts, make music, or just make a good impression on Zoom, then you really need something better. Step forward the AKG Ara.
Only a third of telcos have a clear 5G strategy
New research from IT services provider NTT DATA UK and research firm teknowlogy Group shows only 35 percent of telcoms companies have a clear strategy in place for rolling out 5G.
This is odd given that 94 percent of the senior business leaders from across Europe interviewed believe that 5G will transform the sector.
Ian's Bio
Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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