Fastly adds the power of edge computing to Google BigQuery
Companies continue to be keen to exploit the power of big data analytics, and one of the most popular platforms for doing this is Google's BigQuery.
Edge cloud platform Fastly is announcing a new integration that allows the real-time streaming of logs to BigQuery. This, the first of a number of planned integrations with Google's Cloud Platform, aims to deliver better performance and faster real-time insights.
90 percent of organizations will adopt VMware in the cloud by 2018
A new study from cloud data management company Druva shows a strong trend among businesses towards moving virtual workloads to the cloud.
It reveals that in the VMware market 90 percent of companies are aiming to migrate their workloads by 2018, with a clear preference for AWS (47 percent), followed by Microsoft Azure (25 percent).
72 percent of security pros say encryption backdoors won't stop terrorism
A new survey of information security professionals carried out at last month's Black Hat conference suggests that the majority think encryption backdoors are ineffective and potentially dangerous.
The study carried out by machine identity protection company Venafi finds that 72 percent of respondents don't believe encryption backdoors would make their nations safer from terrorists.
On-premises workloads have more security incidents than those in the public cloud
According to a new survey, workloads run on in-house systems suffer 51 percent more security incidents than those on public cloud services.
The study from cloud security and compliance company Alert Logic analyzed more 2 million security incidents captured by its intrusion detection systems over 18 months.
Enterprises still struggle with password policies
Passwords and their effectiveness is a subject that continues to come under the spotlight, particularly with the publication of a recent United States National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) document recommending a move to passphrases.
Security awareness training specialist KnowBe4 has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords and determine how the proposed passphrase concept stacks up against methods currently in use.
Over a third of IoT medical device organizations suffer security incidents
As the internet of things spreads into more and more areas, increasing numbers of medical devices are now connected, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks that could shut down medical processes, expose critical hospital and patient data, and ultimately put patient safety at risk.
Many medical devices are not built with cybersecurity in mind, yet a survey by Deloitte Cyber Risk Services of over 370 professionals organizations operating in the medical device/IoT arena shows that 36.5 percent have suffered a cyber security incident in the past year.
Companies are losing ground against cyber threats
Businesses are struggling to keep pace against the rising level of cyber security threats, according to a new study.
The Threat Monitoring, Detection and Response Report from Crowd Research Partners -- produced in partnership with a number of leading cyber security vendors -- finds that the biggest concern is dealing with advanced threats in three key areas, ransomware (48 percent), phishing attacks (48 percent) and attendant data loss (47 percent).
Why hackers love privileged accounts
Accessing privileged accounts is the hacker's number one choice of the easiest and fastest way to get access to critical data according to a new study.
Privileged account solutions specialist Thycotic carried out a survey of more than 250 hackers at 2017's Black Hat conference and found that 32 percent of respondents see privileged accounts as the best way of getting hold of sensitive data, with 27 percent preferring access to user email accounts.
New platform looks to plug gaps in enterprise security
When enterprises have a range of different IT systems and integrated supply chains it can lead to gaps in security coverage which are easily overlooked.
Fortress Information Security is launching a new Emerging Security Risk Management platform to provide an enterprise-wide visualization capability allowing organizations to spot and address gaps.
Fear of missing out is driving cloud investments
Businesses are increasingly keen to move ahead with cloud strategies and, according to a new survey, one of the reasons may be simply that they don’t want to miss out.
The study from backup and archiving company Commvault with CITO Research finds that 81 percent of C-level and other IT leaders are either extremely concerned or very concerned about missing out on cloud advancements.
McAfee launches virtual security platform for AWS
Workloads on AWS can be vulnerable to a number of different threats including cross-site scripting, SQL injection and botnets, and if one virtual server is compromised malware has potential to move to a customer's other machines.
To secure this McAfee is launching its Virtual Network Security Platform for AWS to provide advanced security in the public cloud.
Phishing is the top threat faced by organizations
Both users and their endpoint devices are the primary target for cyber criminals with phishing being the most prevalent threat according to a new report.
The study from research and education specialist the SANS Institute finds security professionals rate phishing at 72 percent, spyware at 50 percent, ransomware at 49 percent, and Trojans at 47 percent as being the top threats today.
The top five cloud security myths debunked
Increasingly businesses are moving their data and applications to the cloud. But there are always concerns about how secure the information is.
Network security company Portnox has put together an infographic looking at some of the myths surrounding cloud security and explaining why they're ill-founded.
One in five people put corporate data at risk via unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots
Employees are putting corporate data at risk by using unsecured hotspots and over sharing on cloud services, according to a new report.
The study from cloud security specialist Bitglass set up Wi-Fi hotspots in random public spaces for two hour time slots, and captured and analyzed traffic, finding that of the 834 people in the public spaces, 187 unique devices (around 20 percent) connected.
Enterprises lack resources to respond to targeted attacks
The number one priority for security executives is achieving complete breach intolerance according to a new study from endpoint security company Endgame in conjunction with Forrester Research.
The study of over 150 security decision makers in large US enterprises also finds 64 percent of executives are concerned that the next breach or attack they experience could be severe, a fear that is heightened by the fact that decision makers don’t know the system or the vector that will be attacked next.
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