Security + Compliance

Gartner gets to grips with security and risk management

Business leaders are becoming increasingly conscious of the impact cybersecurity can have on business outcomes. Gartner, Inc. says that security leaders should harness this increased support and take advantage of six emerging trends, to improve their organisation's resilience while elevating their own standing.

Cloud security brings business benefits

Netskope has released "The Maturity of Cloud Application Security Strategies," a report commissioned by Netskope and conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group that quantifies the business benefits of adopting user-led cloud services.

78% of organisations have found GDPR to be a huge drain on resources

A poll published by ICSA: The Governance Institute and recruitment specialist The Core Partnership reveals that almost four-fifths (78%) of organisations surveyed have found becoming compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to be a heavy burden on their resources; 9% of those surveyed were unsure and 13% felt that it had not been a heavy burden.

UK IT professionals better at addressing security vulnerabilities than their US counterparts

New study from Outpost24 reveals key differences in security concerns faced by UK and US IT professionals.

Top takeaways from Cisco Talos Threat Research Summit

Multiple attack types are the norm

Verisign has released its Q1 2018 DDoS Trends Report, which represents a unique view into the attack trends unfolding online, through observations and insights derived from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations enacted on behalf of Verisign DDoS Protection Services, and security research conducted by Verisign Security Services.