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451 Research bolsters its 100+ research team

451 Research is pleased to announce the hiring of two new members to its growing analyst team: Penny Jones joins the firm's London office as a Senior Analyst, reporting to Research Director Rory Duncan on the European Services team; and Chuck Whitney joins the San Francisco office as a Senior Analyst, reporting to Research Vice President Andy Lawrence on the Datacenter Technologies team.

71 per cent of businesses expect to reach digital maturity by 2019 – but are they as ready as they think?

The majority (71 per cent) of business leaders are confident they can transition from a state of digital transformation to digital maturity within just five years, according to the latest research from Coleman Parkes, commissioned by Ricoh Europe. The findings reveal that digital maturity – where an organisation uses sophisticated tools to drive performance and demonstrates an on-going commitment to technology, technology-led initiatives and digitally managed processes – is now a...

Published in Cloud + MS Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Identity/Access Management Security Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

Companies still need to get their data security houses in order.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

Rapid7 has announced enhancements to its critical security controls monitoring platform, Rapid7 ControlsInsight, to support Windows server controls and monitoring. Application and maintenance of security controls has been highlighted as a proven and effective means for organizations to proactively mitigate risk and monitor their networks. With the new release of ControlsInsight, customers will receive proactive guidance on how to align their security programs with best practices recommended by...

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The Global Enforcement Network (GPEN) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have revealed the findings of their report – conducted by 26 privacy regulators across the world – on the privacy of mobile apps. It found that out of the 1,200 mobile apps analysed, 43 percent failed to tailor privacy communications to the small screen; the information was either too small or hidden in lengthy privacy policies that required scrolling or clicking through numerous pages.

Vulnerabilities are increasing

New Secunia Research@Flexera Country Report reveals the number of OS vulnerabilities is...

Updates - a cause for unease?

25% of UK employees have previously had a dispute with IT staff about the importance or frequency...

Malware courtesy of cloud apps

Netskope Cloud and Threat Report reveals cybercriminals target trusted cloud apps for phishing and...

Daisy completes acquisition of ECSC

Daisy Corporate Services has completed its acquisition of cyber security service provider, ECSC...

A third of organisations have no cybersecurity expertise

Despite 95 percent of CIOs expecting cyberthreats to increase over the next three years, only 65...

Device security a major concern

New research from BullGuard reveals that 66 per cent of consumers are very worried about hacks...

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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