Category Archives: Security

Security Strategies Against State-of-the-art IT Attacks

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By Matthew Robinson, UK Sales and Marketing Director, Kaspersky Lab

Corporate IT is no longer a “set it and forget it” system. Instead, systems require maintenance and regular vulnerability testing if you don’t want to fall victim to an attack. And this doesn’t just apply to major players. On the contrary: in 2012, an average of 58 attacks per day (more than one-third of all attacks on companies) targeted firms with fewer than 250 employees. This article helps companies prepare themselves for such eventualities.

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Minimising the Risks Involved in Using Social Networks

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By David Emm, Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky Lab

Social media is not just attractive to individuals, and an increasing number of companies are now using Facebook and similar sites to communicate with their customers. In many cases, their employees are also permitted access to social networks. The question is, however, how can social media be used securely in the workplace? This article explains the most important points to bear in mind when it comes to security for social networks.

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Plan B: Optimising Your Emergency Strategy

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By Malcolm Tuck, Managing Director UK&I, Kaspersky Lab

Does your company have a Plan B for its IT systems? How will you react to a successful hacker attack, stolen mobile devices, or a fire in your data centre? These questions can send most companies into a tailspin. In a global survey carried out by Kaspersky Lab, 60 percent of companies admitted that they either did not have an emergency strategy, or that theirs was incomplete. It’s time for Plan B, and we’ll explain how it’s done.

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Your Biggest Security Threat May Be Sitting Right Beside You

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By Mark Sparshott, EMEA Director of Channels, Alliances & OEM, Proofpoint

Understanding, protecting and governing critical information whilst allowing employees to do their job unhindered by process is an on-going balancing act. Too much control can cost the business money by overburdening employees and reducing their ability to work efficiently and fast. Too little control can lead to data loss resulting in hefty fines for compliance violations and damage to your corporate reputation.

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Five reasons not to worry about lost laptops

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By Phil Evans, vice-president at Datacastle

Laptops, Ultrabooks, and Surface Pros are very easy to lose and an easy target for thieves. The FBI has estimated that the cost to a company for losing a single laptop is just under $50,000. However, despite this, you need not worry if you take the right approach to data security says Phil Evans ofDatacastle, a specialist in endpoint backup and data protection.

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Don’t be complacent when it comes to document security

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By Tony Burnett, group sales director at Altodigital


Document security is crucially important for organisations but unfortunately an issue that often gets forgotten amongst the day-to-day demands of running a business. However, a lax attitude towards document management can have serious consequences for any business; from compromising confidential data to falling foul of stringent data protection laws.

Here at Altodigital, managed document solutions (MDS) forms a major part of what we do, and to help us understand the issues businesses face in this area, we sought the views of more than 500 decision makers across the UK when it came to document security as well as printer, scanner and photocopier practices. Continue reading →

It’s Time to Think Outside the Sandbox

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By Leon Ward, Senior Product Manager, Detection, Sourcefire

Over the years we’ve all heard claims of ‘silver bullet’ solutions to solve security problems. One of the most recent claims has been around the use of sandboxing technology alone to fight advanced malware and targeted threats.

The idea behind sandboxing is that you limit the impact malware can have by isolating an unknown or untrusted file, constraining it to run in a tightly controlled environment and watching it for suspect or malicious behaviour. Sandbox technology can mitigate risk, but it doesn’t remove it entirely. Continue reading →

Ensuring ‘Business as Usual’

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By Christian Toon, Head of Information Risk, Global Security Services, Iron Mountain

 

The risk of a serious data breach or the loss of confidential information could damage your company’s ability to function, undermine your brand reputation and leave your customers vulnerable to identity theft.

There are a number of steps businesses of all sizes can take to protect their information. Christian Toon, Head of Information Risk at Iron Mountain, provides some tips to ensure that the lifeblood of your business is managed in the best possible way. Continue reading →

Coping with today’s security and compliance challenges

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By Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of Wick Hill Group, specialists in secure IP infrastructure solutions and convergence.

 

A greater range of threats, more complex threats, and how to deal with these threats on a limited budget, with static staff numbers, are some of the issues faced by organisations today.

The challenges include compliance and licensing, as well as a host of security issues around areas such as ever-increasing remote access; the growing number of mobile devices; virtualisation; convergence; wireless; data loss; and the consumerisation of equipment.

A variety of solutions is available to deal with these threats. Continue reading →