Oct 31, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting retailers and their customers through digital and social channels as retailers leverage new channels for increased revenue opportunities. In a joint report, IntSights scoured the Clear and Dark Web to assess retail data and...
Oct 30, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Firewall automation projects are seemingly all the rage these days, with everyone looking to automate at least some portion of the process. Usually, the goal is to save time and money by automating firewall administration and policy management. However, these two...
Oct 29, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
With every new feature update for Windows 10, it comes packed with new features. One area of this update that has been improved is in security settings. First off, there is a name change. It is no longer called “Windows Defender Security Center”. Microsoft is renaming...
Oct 26, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple and Samsung were fined Wednesday for software updates that Italy’s antitrust watchdog said slowed down users’ phones. The Italian Competition Authority, or AGCM, fined Apple and Samsung 5 million euros (about $5.7 million) each for releasing software...
Oct 25, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
As more and more organizations embrace the migration to the cloud, there are the inevitable questions that arise around its safety. Specifically, enterprises need to know that their data is going to be secure if they choose to embrace a cloud-based model, particularly...
Oct 24, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Now that technology is the very lifeblood of any successful enterprise, getting the people that work for each organization to use their tech safely has become a priority. Technical and embedded process controls can take you so far, but every enterprise still needs...
Oct 23, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
In a new survey on cybersecurity culture, 90% of the nearly 5,000 technology professionals who participated identified a gap in their existing culture and the cybersecurity culture they would like to have, according to ISACA and CMMI Institute. The Cybersecurity...
Oct 22, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
As Halloween looms, it would certainly feel like the right time to think of our favourite horror stories. From an enterprise IT perspective, there are too many to keep up with these days. From the constant threat of cyber attacks from external hackers, to the rise of...
Oct 19, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple will host another product announcement event on October 30 at 10am Eastern time, according to invitations that have gone out to members of the press and an update to Apple’s live events page. The invitation for the event carries the copy,...
Oct 18, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
There is an endpoint protection gap against modern threats, the result of a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute and Barkly have shown. The organisations polled 660 IT and security professionals to get insight on the state of endpoint security risk, and have found...
Oct 17, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Seventy-five percent of professionals pose a moderate or severe risk to the corporate data of the companies they work for. According to MediaPRO’s third-annual State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report, workers in the financial sector are more likely to be a risk...
Oct 16, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Organisations across all industries are recognizing the value of automation, and the necessity of implementing it in their security infrastructure. However, beyond the simple promise of being able to act faster and save your employees’ time, the extent of automation’s...
Oct 15, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is planning a game streaming service, called Project xCloud, which it plans to trial in 2019. Microsoft revealed the plan just a week after Google unveiled Project Stream, its own PC gaming cloud service, which it it started trialing on Friday after many...
Oct 12, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has broken into the top five PC makers in the US for the first time. Market research firm Gartner revealed that Microsoft now holds 4.1 percent of the US PC market, edging out Acer for the fifth spot. It’s the first time Microsoft has entered the top five in...
Oct 11, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishing is nearly as old as email, but it is still a major attack vector for cybercriminals. Some of the most prominent cyber incidents of the past few years are the result of phishing attempts. Despite the maturity of this problem, the solutions proposed by the...
Oct 10, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
This year we’ve seen massive malware attacks spanning from nation state campaigns originating in North Korea and Russia to popular restaurants and everything in between. Each new incident serves as a grim reminder to business leaders that hackers will not relent. Yet...
Oct 9, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Software updates can seem like a chore, but they’re really an underrated perk of the gadget world. New hardware, like phones, cost money to upgrade. But new software is typically free, and ideally makes your device, or even just your web browser, better. Apple has...
Oct 8, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Last but certainly not least, a good cybersecurity plan focuses on more than prevention. It’s also concerned with mitigation. Should the worst happen and your business find itself under threat, how will you respond? How will...
Oct 5, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
A Focus On The Right Tools Armed with an understanding of your business’s unique threat profile and its employees distinctive needs, you can then reposition infrastructure and software planning as more of a collaborative process – not, in other words, the sole domain...
Oct 4, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
No matter your business’s size, you are a target for someone. Cybercriminals are now more numerous than ever, and they have a threat surface larger than any we’ve ever seen to exploit gleefully. And they aren’t the only risk to your organization’s assets, either –...
Oct 3, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
While open code repositories can increase efficiency in R&D, they also raise issues of security vulnerabilities. Today’s developers are under pressure to deliver new software at an increasingly rapid pace, leading to the more frequent use of open source code,...
Oct 2, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
When was the last time you thought about what permissions the apps on your phone have? Often, when downloading something new from the app store, many people somewhat blindly accept the various pop-ups that ask to allow the app access to their phone’s data; more...
Oct 1, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Today, the SANS Institute Threat Hunting Survey report concludes that organisations are beginning to find cyber threats more effectively. However, whilst techniques, tools and the scope of threat hunting is expanding, the practice is still relatively poorly defined...
