Data Management Archives - Cyber Security Minute

New Survey Reveals 40% of Companies Experienced a Data Leak in the Past Year

Issued by: Dark Reading

SysKit, a SaaS software company, has published a report on the effects of digital transformation on IT admins and the current governance landscape. The survey found that 40% of companies experienced a data leak in the previous year, which can have severe consequences on an organization’s efficiency and result in large fines, downtime, and loss…

Vulnerabilities

Aunalytics Launches Security Patching Platform as a Service

Issued by: Dark Reading

Aunalytics, a leading data management and analytics company delivering managed IT and data platform services for mid-sized and enterprise businesses, today initiated its Security Patching Platform, Co-managed Patching as a Service to complement the company’s Advanced Security solution suite. Windows OS and supported 3rd party patch management allow for tighter security in the defense against…

Network Security

Rising physical threats putting leaders under pressure

Issued by: Help Net Security

Physical threats are rising and increasingly unmanageable, putting unprecedented financial, reputational and liability pressures on business leadership and security teams, according to a study by the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence. As physical security operations budgets are expected to increase in 2021, driven and accelerated by COVID-19, the study showcases the collective perspectives of chief…

Application Security

Growth of cloud-native apps and containerization to define 2021

Issued by: Help Net Security

Scality announced its data storage predictions for 2021, focusing on the rapid growth rate of cloud-native apps and containerization. According to IDC, by 2023, over 500 million digital apps and services will be developed and deployed using cloud-native approaches. That is the same number of apps developed in total over the last 40 years. 2021…

Cloud Security

Take a Data-Centric Approach to Zero Trust to Protect Your Most Critical Assets

Issued by: Security Intelligence

For many of us, children are our most critical assets. In order to protect what is important to us, we work hard to know where they are and what they are doing at all times — particularly during those pesky teen years. We also take steps to protect the places where they spend their time….

Network Security

What students think about university data security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Only 32% of students agree they are aware of how their institution handles their personal data, compared to 45% who disagree and 22% who neither agree nor disagree, according to a Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) survey of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students. Perceptions about university data security Just 31% of students feel their institution…

Network Security

How well are healthcare organizations protecting patient information?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Healthcare organizations have high levels of confidence in their cybersecurity preparedness despite most of them using only basic user authentication methods in the face of an increasing number of patient identity theft and fraud instances in the marketplace, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Key survey findings Specifically, the survey results showed: 58% believe that the…