Every strategic decision, from customer engagement to AI-driven automation, relies on an organization’s ability to manage, process and move vast amounts of information efficiently. However, as companies expand their operations and adopt multi-cloud architectures, they are faced with an invisible but powerful challenge: Data gravity. Data gravity is a term coined by Dave McCrory in 2010 to describe the tendency of large datasets to attract applications, services and even more data, making them increasingly difficult…

Complying with regulations is the biggest cybersecurity challenge for UK financial services firms, according to new research by Bridewell Consulting. Nearly half (44%) of financial services organizations surveyed cited compliance as one of the top five cyber challenges they face at present. This was followed by data protection and privacy (39%), supporting remote and hybrid working (39%), protecting critical assets (37%) and managing cloud cybersecurity (35%). The findings follow the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act…

Automated traffic now accounts for the majority of activity on the web, with the share of bad bot traffic surging from 32% to 37% annually last year, according to Thales. The French defense giant’s 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report is now in its 12th year, and based as always on data collected by Imperva’s global network, which apparently blocked 13 trillion bad bot requests across thousands of domains and industries last year. Bot traffic accounted for…

Organizations remediate only 48% of all vulnerabilities with detected exploits, according to a new study by Pentesting-as-a-Service (PTaaS) firm Cobalt. This number is even more concerning for generative AI (GenAI) applications and tools, with only 21% of flaws discovered being resolved. These findings come from Cobalt’s latest State of Pentesting Report, published on April 14. However, a silver lining is that the number of vulnerabilities addressed significantly improves, to 69%, for vulnerabilities with severity ratings…