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IT leaders fear data fragmentation is putting businesses at risk

82% see decision making hurt by data fragmentation. 93% struggling to control corporate data. 83% see security risks as data is spread across corporate or ‘Shadow IT’ networks.

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Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is here to stay, states Ovum, as it reveals the findings of its 2013 multi-market BYOX (bring-your-own-anything) employee study.

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Cloud based infrastructures now dominant – 60% use hybrid or cloud only.

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Varonis has detailed how Nottingham Building Society is using Varonis DatAdvantage and DataPrivilege software to keep its critical and sensitive data secure. The Nottingham Building Society has been able to identify and assign ownership for over 90% of its information with DatAdvantage, moving on-going management responsibility to these owners and giving them the ability to easily maintain permissions for their areas with DataPrivilege. The combined power of the two products has meant...

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63% of businesses do not attempt to manage corporate information on employee-owned devices; mobile security incidents cost more than $100,000 for almost half of firms surveyed.

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Symantec Corp. and the Ponemon Institute have released the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis which reveals human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012 and pushed the global average to $136 per record[1]. Issues included employee mishandling of confidential data, lack of system controls, and violations of industry and government regulations. Heavily regulated fields including healthcare, finance and pharmaceutical incurred breach costs 70 percent...

Gartner identifies top security and risk managemenr trends

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Financial institutions fail to protect mobile apps

Research highlights a systemic failure to protect financial services apps against multiple...

Insurers told cyber assessment critical to exposure management and pricing

Underwriters and brokers have been warned the vast majority of UK businesses are unprepared to...

The move to microservices makes for new security challenges

Radware has released its 2019 State of Web Application Security Report. Radware found that while...

Cisco announces new AI infrastructure and security innovations

Cisco's latest advancements aim to provide a foundation for AI, emphasising security and...

Palo Alto Networks ‘revolutionises’ Cloud Security

Prisma Cloud's "Darwin" release simplifies cloud security and improves productivity and...

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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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IT leaders fear data fragmentation is putting businesses at risk

Ovum warns BYOD is here to stay and urges CIOs to respond with a clear strategy

Increasing IT complexity and need for data security drive growth in outsourcing

Nottingham Building Society strengthens security

Mobile security in the spotlight

Most data breaches caused by human and system errors