Five key ways machine learning can thwart phishing attacks

Global mobile phishing attempts surged by 37% amid shift to work-from-home for the thousands of businesses needing to adhere to shelter-in-place directives. According to Verizon, over 90% of breaches start with a phishing attack and with more than 60% of emails being read on mobile, mobile phishing is one of the fastest-growing threat categories in 2020. 60% of IT leaders believe that phishing is the most significant mobile security threat faced by their organization, according to...

23 August 2020 | Authentication

How to win friends and influence people: Using workplace technology to attract and retain staff

For years we have been promised that the gap between consumer and workplace technology is closing – from the introduction of policies such as bring your own device (BYOD) to some businesses directly consulting employees on which new technologies they’d like to use.

This sounds great in theory, but the reality of workplace technology is much less perfect for many of us. While the technology people use in their home lives seems to continue improving at an exponential rate,...

20 July 2020 | BYOD

Move over BYOD: Meet BYOH – ‘bring your own home’

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced companies around the world to do something most of them were not ready to do – ask all their employees to work from home. A recent Gartner survey showed that 74% of chief financial officer respondents stated they planned to transition at least part of their workforces to permanent remote working. Much to their surprise, businesses are finding the transition to home more palatable that expected – in some cases, it has worked so well that measurable...

16 July 2020 | BYOD

Why cybersecurity remains a key problem across the business

Bottom line: Absolute’s 2020 Endpoint Resilience Report illustrates why the purpose of any cybersecurity program needs to be attaining a balance between protecting an organisation and the need to keep the business running, starting with secured endpoints. Enterprises who have taken a blank cheque approach in the past to spending on cybersecurity are facing the stark reality that all that spending may have made them more vulnerable to attacks. While cybersecurity spending grew at a Compound...

4 July 2020 | CIO

BlackBerry protects ‘upwards of 96%’ of all cyberthreats, says Frost & Sullivan

A report from Frost & Sullivan has praised BlackBerry's security capabilities, saying the company can protect 'upwards of 96%' of all cyberthreats as well as all IoT endpoints.

The report assessed the cyberthreat landscape more generally and found that comprehensive endpoint-based security can protect up to 97% of attacks. This percentage is likely to increase due to the growing number and importance of IoT devices. Across industry, the next five years are likely to see at...

23 June 2020 | BlackBerry

Why automation is changing data science for everyone

A key goal of visual analytics and data science is to identify actionable insights that impact business processes – to grow revenue, improve productivity or mitigate risk. Automated AI, or specifically automated machine learning for data science, can help with this goal. AutoML can dramatically increase the productivity of data scientists by automating the more mundane tasks and freeing up time for innovation. AutoML with transparency can also guide and educate users on how to get the...

19 June 2020 | Mobile

Gartner issues six-point plan for CIOs to cure Covid-19 cost-cutting

Budgets naturally need to be redrawn and tightened amid the global Covid-19 pandemic - and according to the latest report from Gartner, CIOs need to focus on a multi-faceted plan incorporating business impact and organisational risk to succeed.

The analyst firm has released a six-step cost optimisation framework which CIOs need to explore. Financial benefit is only one of the steps available - albeit an important one - emphasising the need to focus holistically, and reminding that...

15 June 2020 | CIO

Six key areas where AI is improving customer experiences

Bottom Line: This year’s hard reset is amplifying how vital customer relationships are and how much potential AI has to find new ways to improve them.

30% of customers will leave a brand and never come back because of a bad experience.27% of companies say improving their customer intelligence and data efforts are their highest priority when it comes to customer experience (CX).By 2023, 30% of customer service organizations will deliver proactive customer services by using...

1 June 2020 | App Platforms

MobileIron report warns of C-suite risk to mobile security

It is already commonly regarded that humans are the weakest link in the chain when it comes to cybersecurity - but a new MobileIron study has found that the fish rots from the head.

According to the enterprise security provider, based on interviews of 300 enterprise IT decision makers and 50 C-level executives, the C-suite is the most likely group within an organisation to ask for more relaxed mobile security protocols, in spite of being the most likely targets for...

29 May 2020 | CIO

Many companies still compromising mobile security to get things done: Verizon study

Four in 10 companies admit they have ‘sacrificed’ mobile security in the past year, according to the latest study from Verizon.

The report, Verizon’s third edition of its Mobile Security Index, found many companies are leaving themselves at risk through lax security plans. 43% of respondents had sacrificed mobile security over the most recent 12 months, with two thirds (66%) of...

26 February 2020 | Data & Analytics