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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly updated over the last year. Now it’s up to solution providers to choose the winners. Application Performance and Observability As more applications run in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, maintaining application performance has becoming a more complex task. Application performance management and observability tools help IT organizations maintain the health, performance and user experience of business applications, according to market researcher Gartner. Such tools…

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54% of U.K. IT Pros Confident They Can Recover Their Data

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54% of U.K. IT Pros Confident They Can Recover Their Data

U.K. IT professionals are adopting a “Titanic mindset,” a study has found, unable to foresee the upcoming “iceberg” of their insufficient data recovery solutions. Only 54% expressed confidence in recovering their data and mitigating downtime in a future disaster — despite 78% of the professionals surveyed saying their organisation has lost data at some point over the last year, either due to system failure, human error, or a cyberattack. Assurestor, a provider of recoverability solutions,…

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Microsoft Reports on Progress of Revamping Security Efforts

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Microsoft Reports on Progress of Revamping Security Efforts

On Sept. 23, Microsoft released a report detailing the progress of the Secure Future Initiative, the company-wide overhaul put in place in November 2023. The Secure Future Initiative exists to improve security in the wake of some high-profile vulnerabilities in 2023. These vulnerabilities included a breach in Microsoft Exchange Online that allowed threat actors associated with the Chinese government to access U.S. government emails in 2023. In April 2024, the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board…

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Data Breaches Are Costing Australian Organisations, IBM Report Reveals

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Data Breaches Are Costing Australian Organisations, IBM Report Reveals

IBM recently released its annual Cost of a Data Breach report, revealing that the average cost of a data breach in Australia reached a record-high of AUD $4.26 million (USD $2.77 million) in 2024. This represents a 27% increase since 2020. The report also highlighted that Australian organizations continue to be most threatened by the same threats that had dominated in previous years. Furthermore, with a deep cyber security skills crisis in the country, it’s…

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Verizon 2024 Data Breach Report shows the risk of the human element

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Verizon 2024 Data Breach Report shows the risk of the human element

Verizon Business released its 17th-annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), highlighting the role that the human element plays in cyber threats. This report examined 30,458 security incidents as well as 10,626 verified breaches in 2023, representing a two-fold increase from 2022. Out of the breaches analyzed, more than two-thirds (68%) included a non-malicious human element — in other words, these incidents involved insider errors or people falling for social engineering schemes. This percentage remains consistent…

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3 UK Cyber Security Trends to Watch in 2024

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3 UK Cyber Security Trends to Watch in 2024

Staying up to date with the latest in cyber security has arguably never been more paramount than in 2024. Financial services provider Allianz named cyber attacks this year’s biggest risk for business in the U.K. and a top concern for businesses of all sizes for the first time. However, many professionals are still in the dark about what the events in Q1 tell us about the cyber landscape for the rest of the year that…

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Why are phishing attacks destroying SMBs?

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Why are phishing attacks destroying SMBs?

Phishing scams have become an all-too-common threat. Through spear fishing, vishing and other forms of social engineering, cybercriminals trick business owners and employees into disclosing sensitive information like credentials and passwords, eventually resulting in data breaches and ransomware installations on a business’s network. According to Accenture, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses. But why have these attacks become so prevalent and so successful? Macro trends have pushed workplaces to permanently adopt a hybrid…

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Sekoia: Latest in the Financial Sector Cyber Threat Landscape

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Sekoia: Latest in the Financial Sector Cyber Threat Landscape

A new report from French-based cybersecurity company Sekoia describes evolutions in the financial sector threat landscape. The sector is the most impacted by phishing worldwide and is increasingly targeted by QR code phishing. The financial industry also suffers from attacks on the software supply chain and stands among the most targeted sectors impacted by ransomware in 2023. And an increase in attacks on Android smartphones affects the sector, both for cybercrime and cyberespionage operations. Jump…

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Minimizing data breaches from human error with randomized re-representations

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Minimizing data breaches from human error with randomized re-representations

Minimizing data breaches from human error with randomized re-representations | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This…

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Report: US suffers 49.8M leaked accounts in Q2

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Report: US suffers 49.8M leaked accounts in Q2

US is most breached country in Q2 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This Website Uses…

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