Home workers still keep putting their employers at risk
If remote workers still haven’t placed your organization’s sensitive data at risk, they’ll most likely do so in the near future. According to a new report from encrypted USB manufacturer Apricorn, employees at more than a third (35 percent) of UK businesses knowingly put corporate data at risk last year. The majority of respondents (58 percent) believe their remote workers …
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Backup failures are putting businesses at significant risk of data loss
The majority of data backups are prone to failure, placing businesses at risk of data loss and devastating ransomware attacks. This is according to a new report from backup and disaster recovery firm Veeam, which claims that more than half (58 percent) of all backup recoveries fail. Furthermore, 14 percent of data is not backed up in the first place. …
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Employees are putting business accounts at risk by recycling credentials
Many remote workers are disregarding cybersecurity best practices, putting organizations at serious risk of data breaches. This is according to a new report from automation platform Ivanti, based on a poll of 1,000 UK consumers, which states that a fifth regularly recycle their business email addresses and passwords to log into consumer websites and applications. They often use their work …
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Unmanaged open-source software is putting businesses at risk
Unmanaged open-source software is putting businesses at risk, according to a new report from Synopsys. The company polled 1,500 IT professionals and found that an “overwhelming majority” of modern codebases contain open-source components (sometimes going up to 70 percent). Most of the codebases (75 percent) audited by Synopsys, meanwhile, contained open-source components with known security vulnerabilities, meaning businesses that don’t …
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