Many companies still don’t have remote working properly secured
Despite a full year having elapsed since the transition to remote working, most IT security managers are still not confident in the security measures set up to protect off-premise employees. This is according to a new report from cloud security firm BitGlass, which states that IT security experts generally worry about data leaking through endpoints, users connecting with unmanaged devices …
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Many companies still aren’t making the best decisions using their data
Many organizations are still not making the best data-driven decisions, due to complexities in the way it’s stored and analyzed, according to a new report from software companies Starburst and Red Hat. The report states that analytics workloads and demands increased significantly during the pandemic, which has made data access even more critical for the majority of enterprises. However, with …
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Companies are failing to meet their digital potential
If businesses are to thrive, they will need to become Autonomous Digital Enterprises (ADEs), a new report from software solutions provider BMC suggests. However, at the moment, most businesses are a long way from fulfilling their digital potential. Polling 1,200 business and IT decision-makers, across more than 20 industries and 11 countries, BMC found that businesses practice about two-fifths of …
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Many companies struggle to prevent and detect attacks at the application level
Most enterprises are struggling to monitor, detect and prevent attacks against their applications, a new report from the Ponemon Institute claims. Polling 634 enterprise IT and security professionals for the report, the organization found that almost three quarters (71 percent) believe their application portfolios have grown more vulnerable over the last year. Despite being aware of the risks, organizations aren’t …
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Many companies would sack employees over phishing mistakes
Employees who repeatedly fall for real or simulated phishing attacks at work are in danger of getting sacked, a report from security firm Proofpoint reveals. Based on a survey of 600 information security professionals, the report states that 27% of UK companies have admitted that a lack of cybersecurity awareness and resilience against phishing attacks could lead them to dismiss …
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Most companies still aren’t set up to support AI and ML initiatives
The majority of global organizations lack the necessary resources to facilitate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) initiatives, a new survey from cloud firm Rackspace Technology suggests. Based on a poll of 1,870 IT professionals, the report reveals that the majority of organizations (82%) worldwide have yet to put the required infrastructure in place to implement AI and ML …
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Many more companies have suffered cyberattacks since moving to remote work
Since the start of the pandemic, cybersecurity experts have warned about threats linked with the transition to remote working. Now, access management firm OneLogin has released a new report that appears to validate those concerns. Polling 2,000 remote workers (1,000 in the US and UK each), the company found that 34 percent have suffered a data breach since shifting to …
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Pandemic may have helped companies get most out of their data
Most businesses across the European continent believe the pandemic has inadvertently improved the way they harness data, according to data platform Splunk. The experience businesses have had with their data over the last year has highlighted its importance to long-term success, mostly because it helps drive innovation and improves the decision-making process. Almost all (90 percent) European businesses surveyed said …
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Data is the main differentiator for companies struggling with the pandemic
If businesses are able to build the right operating environment and the proper incentives to create a data-centric culture, they are likely to better handle the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a new report from Accenture, which claims that businesses across a range of sectors have had to delay significant projects during the pandemic, which …
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Hackers are using DDoS attacks to extort companies for ransom
Criminals are no longer limiting themselves to encrypting sensitive data before demanding a ransom from the victim. They have also started executing what’s known as Ransom Distributed Denial of Service attacks, or RDaaS, and it’s exactly as it sounds. In an attack of this kind, criminals threaten a company with a series of crippling DDoS attacks, unless payment is made …
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