In response to consumers’ demand for instant, always-on service, UK financial firms are showing a growing interest in cloud services. Alan Grogan, chief analytics officer of the customer services group at RBS, even suggested developing a cloud service specifically for financial services organisations, despite the financial industry being criticized for lagging behind other industries in technology adoption. Financial firms need the capability to restore highly sensitive information in a secure infrastructure and recover key systems and data within predefined recovery time objectives — a need cloud technology can fulfil. But while most financial organisations have adopted some form of cloud…
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The Internet may have transformed every aspect of business and personal life but the truth is that it is still in its infancy. As a result, there is a clear lack of sophistication and maturity regarding the way the Internet is used and abused today. Data security is without doubt the primacy concern. The continuous innovation in the way in which businesses and individuals operate online is only matched by the level of invention and diversification in the hacker’s armoury. Mark Kedgley, CTO, New Net Technologies, argues that the only way to win the Internet Security war is to approach…
Infoblox Inc. (NYSE:BLOX), the network control company, released the second quarter 2015 report for the Infoblox DNS Threat Index, powered by IID, the source for clear cyberthreat intelligence. The index hit a record high of 133—up 58 percent from the second quarter of 2014—due to a surge in phishing attacks. The Infoblox DNS Threat Index, which Infoblox and IID are introducing, is an indicator of malicious activity worldwide exploiting the Domain Name System (DNS). The single biggest factor driving the second-quarter increase, according to analysis of the data by IID and Infoblox, is the creation of malicious domains for phishing attacks.…
SOTI MobiControl introduces support for Windows 10, enhanced support of the Apple Volume Purchase Program and Android for Work. As enterprise mobility continues to evolve, so must the definition of devices that fall under the ability to be managed from a central console. Today, SOTI Inc., the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solutions, announces the availability of SOTI MobiControl 12.3, which provides deep device and endpoint management across mobile phones, tablets and connected peripherals such as ATMs, POS systems, elevators and wearable technologies. SOTI MobiControl 12.3, which is available today from SOTI, is designed to provide greater device management flexibility across major operating systems. In fact, 64% of SOTI’s 15,000 global enterprise customers…
New approach to cyber skills gives UK employers exclusive access to 40 most talented cyber-defenders SANS’ first Recruitment Fair offers unparalleled access to the UK’s best employment–ready cyber security talent, selected from over 24,000 candidates Initiative designed for direct and immediate impact on organisations’ cyber skills gap The first ever SANS Cyber Academy Recruitment Fair will offer employers a unique chance to meet the 40 highest-potential cyber defenders the UK has to offer, who are fully trained and ready to start in cyber security roles. The students have been carefully selected by SANS, the world’s largest and most trusted source…
David Dennis, Vice President, Marketing & Products, GroundWork commented on the Microsoft’s Walled-Garden of Virtualisation. David Dennis, Vice President, Marketing & Products, GroundWork : While the data centre of old played host to an array of physical technologies, the data centre of today and of the future is based on virtualisation, public or private clouds, containers, converged servers, and other forms of software-defined solutions. Eighty percent of workloads are now virtualised with most companies using heterogeneous environments. As the virtual revolution continues on, new industry players are emerging ready to take-on the market’s dominating forces. Now is the time for the innovators to…
Following Argos’s newly announced trade-in scheme for mobile devices and tablets, Pat Clawson CEO of the Blancco Technology Group commented below. Pat is supportive of the initiative but warns there is a major risk of consumers leaving themselves vulnerable to data theft. Pat Clawson, CEO of the Blancco Technology Group : “What Argos is doing is a step in the right direction, especially given how the second-hand mobile market is ripe for massive growth. After all, Gartner predicts that the global market for refurbished phones that are sold to end users will grow to 120 million units by 2017. But the…
New York Magazine has suffered a likely DDoS attack which knocked the publication offline for several hours. The attacker, who goes by ThreatKing, claims he went after the site because he “hates New York”; however, the timing of the attack with the release of a cover story featuring 35 victims of Bill Cosby certainly raises questions about the motive. Ofer Gayer, Security Researcher, Imperva Incapsula commented on the hacked magzine. Ofer Gayer, Security Researcher, Imperva Incapsula : “We believe these attacks were perpetrated by the same cyber vandalism group, Vikingdom, that attacked several US government sites in March of this year Unlike…
Online Security Software Companay, Direct ID, Creates Fake Propfile on Tinder™ to Study Identity Protection Meet Martha Smith: She’s twenty-five years old and she has a degree in Engineering from the University of Edinburgh. Her music tastes are wide-ranging, taking in everything from Taylor Swift to AC/DC. She’s an avid reader, dividing her literary affections between Stephanie Meyer’sTwilight series and Homer’s Iliad. She’s single. She’s on Tinder™. She also doesn’t exist. The people at Direct ID invented the character of Martha following the success of a YouTube video they created that played off the old adage, “On the Internet, nobody knows…
Today our working lives are almost 24/7 and often we’re working away from the office. To stay connected we use our mobile phones for email and business, even on vacation. So, it’s not surprising then, that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is on the rise in the enterprise. In the past decade we have seen more employees using mobile devices for work as we witness a growing mobile workforce. Organisations are even actively encouraging workers to bring their own devices into the corporate world. In fact, by 2017 Gartner predicts that 50 per cent of employees will have mobile devices for…