More than half of employees have higher workloads when working remotely
A new survey of over 4,000 global IT workers, carried out by Kaspersky shows that 54 percent of employees have reported an increased workload since switching to remote working.
While 37 percent of respondents didn't notice a change in volume, a lucky nine percent note a decrease in work due to new working conditions.
Why it's vital to address cybersecurity in the wider context of the business [Q&A]
It's easy to pigeonhole cybersecurity as something for the IT or security team to look after. But a major cyberattack can have a devastating impact on the business as a whole.
It's important, therefore, that security be looked at in the context of the entire enterprise. This also means considering approaches like 'assumed breach' where you accept that sooner or later attackers will succeed in getting into your network.
IT outages can cause severe business damage in hours
A new survey finds that 83 percent of companies would suffer business damage during the first 24 hours of an outage and its aftermath.
The study from Dimensional Research on behalf of Netenrich also uncovers a number of contradictions in enterprises' attitude to scaling their security operations.
Majority of businesses not protecting their sensitive data in the cloud
The latest cloud security study from Thales shows that 83 percent of businesses are still failing to encrypt half of the sensitive data they store in the cloud.
This is despite the fact that 40 percent of organizations have experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months.
New solution improves visibility and security in the cloud
Enterprises are increasingly turning to the cloud to boost their digital transformation efforts. But they need to address the security needs of this environment to avoid problems caused by breaches, misconfigurations and more.
Zero trust specialist Illumio is launching a new CloudSecure solution to offer organizations agentless visibility and enable teams to build and manage dynamic cloud workload policies using native controls in their public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
The increasingly critical role of data in the enterprise [Q&A]
The importance of data has increased exponentially in recent years, for businesses of all sizes. But there are increasing challenges too, posed by privacy regulation, alternative data and more.
We spoke to Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data to find out more about the key role of data in the enterprise and how businesses can use it effectively.
Businesses have under 10 minutes to approve new accounts online
A joint study by Onfido and Okta finds that businesses have just 10 minutes to set up new digital accounts or risk losing consumer trust.
This is true across sectors, 65 percent want to open a bank account in less than 10 minutes, 69 percent to book a car rental, 72 percent to open a telemedicine account and 77 percent to register a gaming account.
Finance tasks top the list of processes companies want to automate
Pretty much any business workflow can be automated, but which ones do enterprise executives say are the most important and deliver the greatest value?
A new report from automation specialist Kofax shows that tasks relating to financial transactions top most lists, with accounts payable automation top on 85 percent.
Unification of tech is key to improving enterprise defense
A news report shows that 71 percent of security leaders say their teams need access to threat intelligence, security operations data, incident response data, and vulnerability data.
Yet 65 percent of respondents find it very challenging to provide security teams with cohesive data access according to the study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cyware.
Is it time to rethink data centralization to aid cybersecurity investigations? [Q&A]
Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) has become the keystone of many organizations' security strategies in recent years.
But is it effective? And in the era of greater cloud and SaaS use, is the time right for the concept of SIEM to undergo a radical rethink? Andrew Maloney, COO and co-founder at security investigation specialist Query.AI thinks it is. We spoke to him to learn more.
Data strategy isn't understood in two-thirds of companies
Research from data science consultancy Mango Solutions shows that while 95 percent of companies questioned have a data strategy, less than a third of those (29 percent), claim their data strategy is clear and widely understood.
The survey, of over 100 data professionals at the Big Data LDN event in September, reveals companies are investing heavily in data capabilities, resulting in maturing data functions -- for example, 41 percent have established data science functions in the last two years.
Why data quality is essential to business success [Q&A]
Enterprises are increasingly reliant on data, but it's only really useful if its quality can be assured. With growing volumes though maintaining data quality and compliance is a big challenge.
We spoke to Rex Ahlstrom, chief strategy and technology officer at Syniti to find out how businesses can improve and maintain the quality of their data and how this can benefit them.
Enterprise asset management not keeping pace with pandemic changes
A new report from IT management specialist Flexera looks at how organizations have adapted their technology to meet the demands imposed by the pandemic.
It reveals information technology asset management (ITAM) trends relating to responsibilities and challenges introduced by the increased use of new IT environments such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud and containers.
Hackers exploit zero day before enterprises can patch
Cybercriminals exploited the new CVE-2021-40444 remote code execution zero-day a week before the patch was issued on September 14, according to the latest report from HP Wolf Security.
Researchers also saw scripts that automated the creation of the exploit on Github on the 10th, making it easier for less-sophisticated attackers to use the exploit against vulnerable organisations.
Enterprises move to software-defined storage as data volumes increase
A new report from the Linux Foundation looks at enterprise use of data and storage relating to cloud services and workloads.
The 2021 Data and Storage Trends Report, produced by the SODA Foundation and Linux Foundation Research, shows rapidly growing data volumes and a shift in how they're being handled.
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