Computer Security,Internet security, Security Architecture, Web filtering, IT Protection

The shockingly high cost of protecting against cyberattacks has been revealed, with the manufacturing industry forking out around £2.12bn annually to combat the growing threat of data breaches and system outages.

By Amy Hawthorne, VP, Global Marketing, iland.

Natural disasters and data breaches have been hitting the headlines this year. While it might not happen to you on such a large scale, any sort of outage can cause IT administrators and CIOs to lie awake at night wondering if they are well protected. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is now a mainstream use of the cloud.

By Tom Kellermann, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Carbon Black.

In every intelligence industry there’s often a central aim: predicting the future. We collect and analyse, dissect and interpret, looking for that essential nugget that will give us the edge over our adversaries by indicating what they’ll do next.

BSI’s global centre of excellence for Cybersecurity and Information Resilience has announced cybercrime investigative journalist, Brian Krebs as a speaker at the BSI International Cyber Resilience Exchange. The Exchange takes place at The Convention Centre Dublin on 26 March 2019.

Cyber security specialist CySure Ltd has appointed Frost Solutions as a specialist value added reseller partner in South Africa. Frost Solutions specialises in delivering IT services to the small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) market and has added CySure’s information security management system, VOSO to its product and service portfolio.

2018 was one of substantial change in data protection as organisations grappled with new privacy regulations, exceedingly sophisticated ransomware attacks, and cloud-first disaster recovery strategies that ushered in unexpected costs and heightened risks of data loss. Data protection provider Arcserve, LLC names three predictions for 2019 and their impact over the next 12 months:

Blockchain technology incubator Adel has announced the alpha launch of AdelPoint. This is Adel’s first released project since its launch in December 2016.

Cylance Inc., the provider of AI-driven, prevention-first security solutions, has announced the availability of its virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) service, a program designed to provide organisations with critical technology and security resources that support next-generation security architectures and offer robust staff augmentation.

This Christmas the risk to retailers’ margins from theft is greater than ever before, according to the Lodgic Intelligence Centre.

A10 Networks, the provider of intelligent and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced availability of the A10 Secure Service Mesh solution for applications deployed in open-source Kubernetes container environments.