Why it's critical to have an incident response plan [Q&A]
Recent research carried out by IBM found that organizations with regularly tested incident response plans had a $2.66 million lower data breach cost than organizations without them.
We spoke to Adam Scamihorn, product director at InterVision, to find out why every enterprise needs to have a strong incident response plan in order to face up to growing security threats.
Only 14 percent get back all their data after a ransomware attack
New research shows that only 14 percent of businesses get back 100 percent of their data following a ransomware attack -- even if they agree to the ransom demand.
The study sponsored by Zerto and conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group also reveals that nearly 60 percent of organizations reported an impact to regulated data, such as personally identifiable information, in successful ransomware attacks.
IBM helps put AI into space
AI seems to be just about everywhere at the moment and it seems that there's no escape from its reach, even beyond the confines of the Earth.
IBM is announcing a new partnership with space AI leader, Ubotica Technologies, that will use IBM cloud infrastructure and watsonx.ai components, to simplify the process for developers to deploy AI applications to satellites and generate insights from data on the edge in space.
Nigerian princes are back -- now with the help of AI
Emails from supposedly wronged and robbed Nigerian nobility asking for help in exchange for a payout of millions were one of the very earliest email scams.
For a while 'Nigerian prince' emails, also known as '419 scams' in reference to part of the Nigerian Criminal Code relating to fraud, were a regular feature in most people's inboxes.
90 percent of testing professionals are concerned about AI bias
A new survey of over 3,000 digital testing professionals reveals concerns about bias, copyright issues and privacy.
The study from testing specialist Applause shows that 90 percent of respondents expressed concern, with 25 percent 'very concerned' that bias may affect the accuracy, tone or relevance of the content produced by AI.
AI for one and SaaS for all
The rapid adoption and proliferation of SaaS apps has in many cases served to make the job of IT teams more complicated as they seek to manage threats and control costs.
SaaS management specialist Torii is launching a new SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that offers IT teams a one-stop-shop to automate time-consuming tasks, cut their SaaS spend, and obtain quicker, actionable insights.
The changing role of the CTO [Q&A]
Between the rise of competition, the changing regulatory landscape, the evolution of AI and the rise of new threat actors, the role of the CTO can be a challenging one.
What characteristics are needed for the role and how can incumbents ensure that it remains relevant? We spoke to Ajay Keni, CTO at OneSpan, to find out.
Data governance is top enterprise priority when introducing AI
IT and business leaders are largely allowing employee use of generative AI but the majority (66 percent) are concerned about the data governance risks from AI, including privacy, security and the lack of data source transparency in vendor solutions.
The latest 2023 State of Unstructured Data Management survey from Komprise is based on responses from 300 global enterprise storage IT and business decision makers at companies with more than 1,000 employees in the US and UK, and finds 90 percent of organizations allow employee use of generative AI.
Developers turn to generative AI despite security risks
According to 800 developer (DevOps) and application security (SecOps) leaders surveyed, 97 percent are using GenAI technology today, with 74 percent saying they feel pressured to use it despite identified security risks.
The research from software supply chain management company Sonatype shows 45 percent of SecOps leads have already implemented generative AI into the software development process, compared to only 31 percent for DevOps.
Uncovering the market in vulnerability exploits
It won't come as any surprise that there's a thriving market among threat actors for the latest vulnerability exploits. A new report from Flashpoint lifts the lid on this world and reveals the exact vulnerability exploits that were listed for sale, purchased, and/or traded in the first half of 2023.
One of the most expensive was a remote code execution exploit for Adobe Commerce -- the eCommerce platform formerly known as Magneto -- which was listed for sale at $30,000. A Citrix ShareFile exploit was priced at $25,000.
Data theft overtakes ransomware as IT pro's biggest worry
Of over 200 IT security decision makers surveyed, data theft is cited as the biggest concern by 55 percent, followed by phishing (35 percent) with ransomware taking third place on 29 percent.
The study from Integrity360 shows that in terms of actual incidents phishing is the most common (46 percent), with data theft second on 27 percent. Ransomware, at only 15 percent, is ranked among the least common incidents being seen by businesses.
Over half of Brits are okay with government breaking cybersecurity law
Over half of the UK population (53 percent) would be supportive of the UK government and its allies breaking international cybersecurity law.
A new survey by Censuswide, on behalf of International Cyber Expo, also shows 45 percent have admitted they would be supportive of, or engage in online cybercriminal activity themselves, in the right circumstances.
Why enterprises must modernize their apps [Q&A]
Most organizations have some level of legacy apps. These can be hard to maintain and inhibit initiatives like data sharing. But the modernization process is challenging due to staffing, tools, training, and other issues.
We spoke to EvolveWare CEO Miten Marfatia to find out how enterprise IT can ease this complex process and ensure they get it right.
The top five capabilities SIEMs should have for accurate threat detection [Q&A]
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms are the centerpiece of many organization's security controls, but if these products aren't configured correctly they will produce too many false positives to be useful, and can even make overall threat detection worse.
Security analysts need to trust that their SIEM is detecting threats accurately. We spoke to Sanjay Raja from security analytics company Gurucul to discuss how SIEMs can be configured to offer accurate detection.
CISOs see budgets increase despite economic slowdown
A new report from Team8 shows that 56 percent of CISOs have had budget increases since 2022 despite the economic slowdown, while 25 percent saw no change and 19 percent cuts.
However, larger security departments have been most affected by budget cuts with 67 percent of those with 51-100 people seeing budget reductions.
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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