Recent years have seen a growing number of high-profile ransomware attacks such as WannaCry hit the headlines for their ability to hijack a huge number of computers in a short space of time and extort victims into paying ransoms in order to get their information back. In the case of WannaCry, over 200,000 computers were infected across 150 countries in just four days, with the ransoms being demanded ranging from $300-$600 per computer. Estimates put the...

Here’s something that may seem obvious but is more true today than ever: Organisations that take security breaches seriously (which should be all of them) can’t afford to sit back and take a reactive approach to their defensive strategy. Although a considerable amount of damage can be done in a shockingly short period of time, simple proactive steps can often thwart cybercriminals and defend organisations against a wide variety of attacks.

Symantec has acquired mobile security provider Appthority to ‘reinforce its commitment to protect modern endpoints and operating systems.’

The move will see Appthority be immediately placed into Symantec’s endpoint security arm, and comes a year after the latter acquired mobile threat...

The number of vulnerable applications in an organisation’s ecosystem remains at a ‘staggeringly high’ level according to new research – but putting DevSecOps practices into action appear to have some benefits.

That’s according to a report from CA Veracode. The latest State of Software Security report – CA Technologies having acquired Veracode last year – gives a ‘promising’...

In its 2018 Application Security Statistics Report, titled “The Evolution of the Secure Software Lifecycle”, WhiteHat Security has identified the security vulnerabilities and challenges introduced into the enterprise through traditional applications, and through agile development frameworks, microservices, application programming interfaces (APIs), and cloud architectures.

The annual study, which was published in...

Instant messaging (IM) applications are now a given in the modern enterprise. In fact, according to this article in Wired magazine, they are almost as old as the Internet itself!  It’s easy to see why instant messaging applications are popular - they are quick to use, less formal than email and allow for instantaneous communication.  Users can see immediately when their colleagues are online, share files quickly and...

Earlier this year, Russia started a widespread cyber-attack targeting critical infrastructures around the world, including tens of thousands of devices in British homes. So back in April, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a joint alert, warning that the Russian Government had carried out an attack...

“Put simply, enterprise mobility management (EMM) is dead and focus has shifted towards a unified IoT solution.”

Those were the words of SOTI CEO Carl Rodrigues in an interview with Enterprise Mobility Exchange’s Jason Koestenblatt in which the two discussed mobile transformation, IoT, and what’s next for EMM and MDM.

Rodrigues continued: “EMM will remain a fundamental element of that...

A lack of visibility into devices and networks is putting businesses at risk of cyberattacks, according to a new report.

The study, put together by Enterprise Mobility Exchange and NetMotion Software and which polled more than 130 respondents at organisations with corporately owned mobile devices, explored employees' relationships with their devices and networks.

Almost half of mobile workers polled said they spent the majority of their working time connected to non-corporate public Wi-Fi and carrier...

Bad news for app developers: according to a recent WhiteHat report, some 85% of mobile apps violate one or more of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Mobile Top 10. In other words, 85% of apps have security vulnerabilities that could be exploited.