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Security professionals are wasting 40 hours per month due to inefficient systems

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Study also reveals security professionals overwhelmingly view insider threats as a dangerous and growing concern for their organisations.

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This was a banner year for mega data breaches; according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index, over 900 data breaches occurred during the first half of 2017, which compromised 1.9 billion records. More data was stolen in the first six months of 2017 than the entirety of 2016. According to experts at security market leader Venafi, this massive exfiltration of data is a critical symptom of weak machine identity protection.

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The financial services industry and public sector are aligned in their concerns about data and system security, with both citing a fear of harmful cyber threats emerging in 2018, according to a new study from digital workplace provider Invotra.

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With only six months to go to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a worrying 76% of organisations have yet to review products to ensure they are GDPR compliant, finds new research launched by Callcredit Information Group. Yet marketers’ confidence isn’t wavered by this with a large majority (84%) thinking that those who must know about GDPR know what they need to.

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McAfee Labs report sees known exploits and fileless malware drive record new malware surge

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Cybercriminals leverage Microsoft Office exploits, fileless PowerShell threats, Locky “Lutikus” ransomware, banking trojans to create four new malware samples per second in Q3 2017.

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Critical data values vary by country and industry

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U.S. security professionals value their personally identifiable information more than twice as much as their U.K. counterparts.

Cybercriminals earning over $3B annually exploiting social platforms

Ready availability of hacking tools, wildfire spread of malware and proliferation of cryptomining...

Seven Security predictions for 2017

Security researchers at WatchGuard Technologies warn of ransomworms, IoT botnet zombies,...

Companies moving to the cloud despite security concerns

Cybersecurity risks and breaches considered more of a threat to UK businesses (67%) than to...

Average phishing costs soar to $14.8m

Business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware attacks prove most costly phishing threats to large...

Many businesses still have never heard of GDPR, or don’t understand it

New analysis has found that 15% of IT professionals in the UK, US and Germany have never heard of...

Organisations lack awareness and preparation for GDPR

More than 80 percent of global respondents know few details or nothing about GDPR.

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