Swivel Secure in collaboration with e92plus have today announced “Securing the Cloud: The Future of Authentication”, their latest survey on the vital role of Multi-Factor Authentication in a digital climate where connectivity and a multitude of end-user devices are at an all-time high. As a leading cybersecurity VAD which works with both leading vendors and next-generation startups, e92plus commissioned and produced a survey that reached out to thousands of IT professionals across SMB and enterprise organisations to understand their use of authentication as part of their cybersecurity strategy. These questions extracted results on the many facets of authentication, delving into…
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GDPR is the European Union’s personal data protection regulations, with sets of guiding principles and personal data rights. These include forward-looking regulations setting the landscape of how personal data gets collected, processed, analyzed, stored, retained, monetized, and accessed by any organization that collects data in the EU. Its goal is the protection of individual privacy. As the European Commission puts it, “It’s your data—take control” The pillars of GDPR are: THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHO IS PROCESSING WHAT, AND WHY THE RIGHT TO ACCESS YOUR DATA THE RIGHT TO OBJECT THE RIGHT TO CORRECT YOUR DATA THE RIGHT TO HAVE…
Today, new findings from STEM Learning found the STEM skills shortage is costing UK businesses £1.5bn a year in recruitment, temporary staffing, inflated salaries and additional training. The research also revealed that nine in 10 (89%) Stem businesses have found it difficult to hire staff with the required skills in the last 12 months, leading to a current shortfall of over 173,000 workers – an average of 10 unfilled roles per business. Matt Weston, Managing Director at Robert Half UK commented below. Matt Weston, Managing Director at Robert Half UK: “The UK is in the midst of a skills crisis. The impact on our economy is evident, but there remains no clear solution which means…
In 2017 there were 800-million dollars in losses from Synthetic identity fraud in credit cards alone as estimated by Julie Conroy, an analyst with the Aite Group. She believes this will skyrocket to 1.2 Billion by 2020. Robert Capps, VP and Authentication Strategist at NuData Security commented below. Robert Capps, VP and Authentication Strategist at NuData Security: “The nine billion personal records stolen over the last few years have fueled the synthetic identity fraud market with ample data to create fake identities or combinations of two different identities. This type of fraud is hard to decipher by companies as each…
With the PCI DSS deadline looming on 30 June 2018, Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at web security company, High-Tech Bridge commented below. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at High-Tech Bridge: “This is a very clear and straight-forward message by PCI DSS to merchants that no further protraction will be tolerated. Previous leniance and postponed deadlines were likely caused by technical difficulties to fully eliminate SSL and early TLS, often residing in un-updatable devices or within complicated cloud infrastructure. Sanctions for non-compliance may be severe, thus all merchants who process credit card shall urge to check all their systems. High-Tech Bridge provides a free SSL/TLS tool to verify if your…
Following news that the Crown Prosecution Service has been fined £325,000 by the ICO after losing unencrypted disks containing the recorded interviews of child sex abuse victims, Luke Brown, VP EMEA at WinMagic commented below. Luke Brown, VP EMEA at WinMagic: “Whilst all incidents involving the careless handling of sensitive data must be treated seriously, the nature of the content in this case simply ratchets up the severity of the CPS’ actions. It defies belief that at a time when the issue of data privacy is uppermost in many people’s minds, organisations like the CPS are still seemingly playing fast…
News broke yesterday that Google parent company Alphabet’s experimental incubator Jigsaw will provide free cybersecurity protection to political campaigns. For the last two years, Jigsaw’s Project Shield has focused on fighting DDoS where it might be used for censorship around the world, offering free defences to journalists, small publications, human rights groups, and election board sites. Andrew Lloyd, President at Corero Network Security commented below. Andrew Lloyd, President at Corero Network Security: “Whilst recent election-related headlines have been dominated by the apparent “mass psychology” attempts by Cambridge Analytica (aided by Facebook) to influence voting intentions, government security agencies rightly highlight that…
The FBI recently urged users to reboot their routers in order to disrupt Russia-linked malware, VPNFilter, which has infected over 500,000 routers in at least 54 countries. Matt Walmsley, EMEA Director at Vectra commented below on how users can secure their network infrastructure and prevent malware like this infecting their devices. Matt Walmsley, EMEA Director at Vectra: “With stories reporting routers being compromised by foreign nation states, we see yet again that consumer grade devices are being compromised and potentially weaponised. Consumers are often ill-equipped to manage their local cyber security, they should at the very least power cycle their…
Following recent news that Microsoft and Google have jointly disclosed what’s being called Speculative Store Bypass (variant 4), which can allow an attacker to read older memory values in a CPU’s stack or other memory locations, IT security experts commented below. Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic: “No surprises here, once a major vulnerability is found the world’s cybersecurity researchers will zoom in to find other possible variations and as expected we are starting to learn about more Meltdown and Spectre chip-level security flaws. This particular variant exploits the speculative Store Bypass attack commonly used in “Language-based runtime environments” used in web browsers…
The recent news (see link below) about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) security breach reinforces an urgent issue for CIOs/IT staff worldwide – companies must do a better job of protecting their employees – as well as customers — against both digital and physical data breaches. CBC is Canada’s oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada and one of the world’s major broadcasting organizations, operating national radio and television networks in both English and French. Anthony James, CMO at CipherCloud commented below. Anthony James, CMO at CipherCloud: “The CBC break-in shows that even on-premise data centers cannot provide all of the security…