Tag Archives: security

Tech Trailblazers Security Award Winning Startups Achieve Great Things, Analysis Shows

First seven winners and runners-up of awards that recognise outstanding early-stage companies raise over US$ 700m in investment RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA – February 25th 2020 – Winning an innovation award is no guarantee of subsequent business success for early-stage, technology startups, especially in the constantly evolving sphere of ‘security’. Yet, analysis shows,… Read More »

Firms spend more on IT security, but can’t measure tool effectiveness

More than half of IT security leaders (53 percent) don’t know how well cyber security tools are working, despite an average of $ 18.4 million in average annual spending on these technologies. The new report from the Ponemon Institute is based on a survey of 577 information technology and security practitioners in the United States.… Read More »

Concern for security of data in the cloud worries IT execs

Even as healthcare organizations contemplate moving more computing functions to the cloud, IT execs question the security of their data. A survey from the Cloud Security Alliance, which works to ensure a secure cloud computing environment, found 69 percent of respondent organizations are migrating data for enterprise resource planning applications to the cloud, with nearly… Read More »

Many employee work habits seem innocent but invite security threats

Many employees engage in behaviors that open their organizations to security threats, even though they believe they are risk averse. A new report from Spanning Cloud Apps, a provider of cloud-based data protection, is based on a survey of more than 400 full-time U.S. employees. It found that more than half (55 percent) admitted to… Read More »