If blockchain technologies are going to seriously infiltrate the enterprise, then an endorsement from two leading industry players would not go amiss. The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has teamed up with Hyperledger to seemingly do just that.

The two bodies are chumming up by becoming associate members within each other’s organisations. This is somewhat interesting in itself; the EEA naturally aims to focus on...

It’s a feeling that most of us have experienced at some point: the heart-stopping, head-in-hands moment when you realise that you have copied the wrong person into a sensitive email or attached the wrong file and shared confidential data with unauthorised recipients. Once that data is out there, there is often little you can do except to politely request that the recipient deletes the email and hope that they comply. In today’s world of rigorous data protection legislation, this is simply not...

New research conducted by the Ponemon Institute argues that IT security teams need both a new approach and powerful new tools to protect data and other high-value assets, as companies struggle to fight against sophisticated cybersecurity attacks.

For this study, conducted on behalf of Aruba, a total of 4,000 security and IT professionals across the Americas, Europe and Asia were surveyed to understand what makes security deficiencies so hard to fix, and what types of technologies and processes are required to...

Today’s working environments are no longer governed by the perimeters and boundaries they once were.  As a result, security threats have multiplied and the pressure on IT teams to protect data has increased rapidly. Modern work happens in a mobile-cloud environment outside traditional security controls, and from the perspective of those controls it’s a zero trust environment.

As attacks become more sophisticated, security professionals are forced to reconsider the best practices on which...

Worried that your organisation’s messaging tools aren’t up to scratch security-wise? Keeper Security may have the answer.

The Chicago-based security vendor has announced that KeeperChat, its secure chat and private messenger platform, is now available at SMB and enterprise level.

The platform, available on Windows, Mac OS, Android and iOS, was originally launched in March,...

Revamping an enterprise’s IT security is never going to be a simple flick of a switch. Yet for more than a quarter of organisations polled by enterprise software provider Kollective, it will take at least a month before vital updates are installed.

The study, which polled 260 IT managers, found that for almost two in five (37%), not installing updates is seen as the biggest security threat this year, with outdated...

The news that Reddit has become the latest high-profile company to suffer a data breach raises some important security questions, particularly in relation to employees.

In this incident Reddit used SMS-based authentication, which, while still two-factor, is less secure than other methods. The SMS codes were intercepted by hackers who were then able to access some data.  

Employees who see misconduct or a compliance violation at work are twice as likely to leave their organisations, according to a new study from Gartner.

The survey, which sampled more than 5,000 employees at various levels, found that 29% of employees saw at least one compliance breach at work in 2016 and 2017. Of these sampled employees, 59% were actively looking for another job due to a compliance violation. This was compared with...

Last year, we saw one of the most aggressive ransomware attacks on healthcare institutions around the world. WannaCry went viral on May 12, causing widespread disruption to global IT systems and raising serious questions about the preparedness of the National Health Service to deal with such incidents.

According to the NAO’s published report earlier this...

Since it made more frequent waves in the headlines in waves in 2017, ransomware – which allows hackers to commandeer a company’s data and hold it under password protection until a ransom is paid – has become one of the most feared and profitable weapons in a cybercriminal’s arsenal. More and more hackers are turning to ransomware because it delivers them the best bang for their buck. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are particularly vulnerable to this...