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Remote anxieties

A new survey of enterprise IT security leaders showed an overwhelming majority--almost 80 percent--believe remote workers are at more risk for phishing attacks now because they're isolated from their organisations' security teams. Despite the significant threat increase, more than 59 percent of respondents felt solutions such as video training (27%), email reminders (20%), and VPNs (12%), were sufficient solutions by themselves to keep organisations safe from what those surveyed said were the biggest security breach fears: damage to brand and reputation, and legal jeopardy.

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50% increase in peak attack traffic

Telia Carrier has published the findings of a new DDoS Threat Landscape Report, with a unique perspective on today’s cyber threats from traffic data observed on its #1 ranked Internet backbone, AS1299. The report investigates changes in attack vector, size and frequency, and reveals a staggering 50% increase in peak attack traffic compared to 2019, with a jump to 1.18 Terabytes per Second (TBPS) or 887 Mega Packets Per Second (Mpps).

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94% of organisations have suffered insider data breaches

Human error is the top cause of serious breaches but malicious attacks are IT leaders’ biggest concern.

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The future is SASE

New global survey of 450 IT and security professionals reveals the full impact that the pandemic has had on organizations as well as their security priorities for the hybrid workplace.

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79% of survey respondents identify threat modelling as a top priority in 2021

Security Compass has published the results of a new report, “The State of Threat Modeling in 2021.”

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Post-pandemic 85% of UK businesses feel resilient to business risk

34% of businesses rank cyber as their top tech risk now, but only 44% feel prepared to respond to it.

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648 cyber threats per minute

RiskIQ has released its annual "Evil Internet Minute" security intelligence report. The report taps RiskIQ’s proprietary global intelligence and third-party research to analyse the volume of malicious activity on the internet, revealing that cybercrime now costs organisations a whopping $1,797,945 per minute.

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'Significant' cybersecurity pressures on UK businesses

92% of UK businesses have experienced a cyberattack in the last 12 months, with over two-thirds (72%) successfully breached at least once.

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Prison sentences called for, and organisations should say 'no' to ransom demands

New research highlights a growing reluctance to pay ransomware demands.

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Security and automation are top priorities

Kaseya’s seventh benchmark survey finds cybersecurity and data protection continue to present the biggest challenges amidst a rise in cyberattacks.

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Hackers capitalising on the pandemic to target unsuspecting consumers

McAfee’s new Mobile Threat Report reveals that 2021 is shaping up to be a year of malware misinformation and sneak attacks.

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McAfee research highlights threat trends

McAfee sees attackers shift from mass-spread campaigns to fewer, more lucrative targets.

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Third of organisations ignore cyberattack accountability

Global research reveals the disconnect between business decision makers and security teams, even as new risks from remote working and ransomware grow.

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Videos

Eric Eppe, Head of Portfolio & Strategy, HPC/AI/Quantum at Eviden, Atos Group and also the UEC Secretary, discusses the formation of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI & HPC at scale.
John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.
Erast Wortel, Syniti’s new vice president, go-to-market for EMEA North, shares some great insights and advice on data management challenges and opportunities – topics discussed include data quality, data lakes and swamps, data governance, data migration and master data management – with some great customer examples along the way.
David Walker, Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, warns of the problems associated with legacy databases, discusses the importance of database modernisation - covering the requirements, benefits and potential pitfalls of the migration process - and outlines the many advantages of migrating to open source cloud native databases.

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