Opinion stories - Page 188

As cyberattacks continue to proliferate prioritising where to focus resources to adequately protect your company is a challenge.

Surprisingly, attacks against unified communications (UC) are some of the fastest growing and most misunderstood threats organizations face today.

For companies, the situation is clear – their future depends on how quickly and efficiently they can turn data into accurate insights.

Not only is information on a company's assets available, but information about new techniques to compromise targets is for sale on the dark web.

Cyber attacks menace firms and national bodies, but ironically, the cloud sector, underpinned by tech behemoths, may thrive by offering refuge.

Here's how artificial intelligence and deep learning are moving from buzzwords to revenue-generating endeavours...

As smaller data centres close, experts see growth in data space with a surge in larger provider facilities, shifting the industry dynamics.

f you think you'd elect to pay, there's no better time than now to improve your security practices as you will become a target for further attacks.

Miners race to solve a cryptographic puzzle, which completes the next transaction (or block) on the chain, in hopes of capturing the coin reward.

As AlphaBay vanishes, the dark web braces for upheaval, with markets jostling for supremacy or a radical shift to P2P trading.

Don't forget to scan your backups for vulnerabilities. It would be pointless transferring all your data onto a device that is always compromised.

Big Data can enhance student achievement by providing a wider view of the education system in Australia and increase institutions performances.

At the end of an education and awareness initiative, all users should be able to understand how to identify security threats & how to respond to them.

We might look back on 2017 as the year the hard disk era finally gave way to the brave new world of all-flash solid-state storage.

No organisation regularly repaves their services or applications from a known, good state, leading to vulnerable servers for more than five months.

Information security can be a noisy place. As a career security guy my experiences have given me a deep understanding of attackers & the enterprise.

Think of behaviour analytics as Iron Man and identity analytics as The Avengers and you have a powerful approach to identity access management.

According to reports from McKinsey, predictive maintenance could save global businesses an incredible $630 billion a year by 2025.

When it comes to digital business, the one thing you can count on is change, and marketers must move quickly to keep pace.

Hard-coding and embedding credentials in the code or a script can initially make them easy to use – but this represents a significant vulnerability.