Small organizations still struggle to stay on top of threats and keep their networks and IT assets safe, even as larger organization lay the groundwork to tackle future challenges, a new survey of security and IT decision-makers reveals.
A culture of quickly paying ransomware extortionists has not only made Australian businesses high-profile targets for further attacks but risks destroying corporate reputations through the direct funding of organised crime, security experts have warned as ransomware volumes continue to pummel unprepared businesses.
David Braue | 25 Jul | Read more
Australians are more worried about email security than their peers in comparable countries and fully half of IT decision-makers believe their organisations are more vulnerable to attack than they were 12 months ago, according to new survey results that also found Australian businesses are more concerned about email breaches causing reputational damage than about the actual loss of data.
David Braue | 18 Feb | Read more
Less than 1 in 4 Australian and New Zealand businesses is in the advanced stages of planning their cloud rollout – yet with nearly half of CEOs and board members supporting the paradigm and 60 percent of respondents reporting security issues, the other organisation are not free from problems related to the cloud, a Red Hat customer survey has found.
David Braue | 26 Feb | Read more
Despite broad progress around the introduction of new security tools and architectures, IT decision-makers still see security as the biggest barrier to increasing their investment in mobility, cloud computing and big-data technologies, according to new research from Dell.
David Braue | 06 Nov | Read more