News

Latest news about B2B cyber security >>> PR agencies: add us to your mailing list - see contact! >>> Book an exclusive PartnerChannel for your news!

Cyber ​​resilience: Top management is in demand
Cyber ​​resilience: Top management is in demand

In 2024, cyber resilience will be a big topic at the management level. Because data backup is the basis for the continuity of business processes. AI as a feasible and practical technology will play an important role. The following trends will play an important role in 2024 in implementing cyber resilience in companies technically and organizationally: Trend 1: AI and ML will become viable and affordable technologies Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will become a reality for many companies from upper mid-sized companies onwards into a tangible and exploitable technology to maintain data security and data availability. AI can always...

Read more

Executives don’t take cybersecurity too seriously
Executives don’t take cybersecurity too seriously

More than a third of German managers have shared their password with someone outside their own company. A recent study shows how relaxed managers are about cybersecurity. Security provider Ivanti has presented the results of the Executive Security Spotlight Report. The study deals with security behavior specifically at the C-level in the company. Although this group of people is constantly in the focus of spear phishing or whaling actors, executives are surprisingly relaxed when it comes to cybersecurity. Managers are often the target of threats. The main sticking point: Due to their management tasks, they are often given extensive access rights...

Read more

Managers: poorer cybersecurity awareness
Executives: Awareness of cybersecurity is growing

Over half of German companies have already fallen victim to a cyber attack. According to a survey, senior managers are often more vulnerable to phishing attacks than their employees. The average click rate for managers is 60 percent higher than for other user groups. Although cybersecurity awareness is increasing among managers, they are still more susceptible to false clicks on phishing emails. According to research from SoSafe, Europe's leading platform for security awareness and training, 55 percent of German security managers say their top management's focus on IT security has increased compared to last year...

Read more

Cyber ​​resilience: Insufficiently prepared despite fear of attacks
Cyber ​​resilience: Insufficiently prepared despite fear of attacks

In a study, managers from the areas of security and IT operations commented on cyber resilience in their company. The majority expect an attack. Commvault has released a new IDC report commissioned by Commvault entitled “The Cyber-Resilient Organization: Maximum Preparedness with Bullet-Proof Recovery Survey.” In this report, IDC surveyed more than 500 security and IT operations executives worldwide to get an up-to-date overview of how organizations perceive modern security threats and how they are strengthening their cyber resilience. The key findings of this report can be summarized in…

Read more

Study: CIOs & Digital Transformation

Study: CIOs need cross-team collaboration for digital transformation. 93 percent see challenges, for example because IT and business teams work in silos. Dynatrace, the "Software Intelligence Company", has published the results of an independent global survey of 700 CIOs. Accordingly, IT executives are increasingly concerned about whether they can keep up with the digital transformation. Traditional IT operating models with isolated teams and multiple monitoring and management solutions are proving ineffective for keeping up with cloud-native architectures. Teams waste time manually combining data from different solutions in order to overcome challenges instead of driving innovations ...

Read more

Business and security officials are at odds
Meeting communication security officers

A study reveals a lack of cooperation between German business and security officers, which has negative effects. The gap is also evident in how companies respond to the global pandemic. Tenable, the cyber exposure company, identified a lack of collaboration between German business and security officials, which has proven to be detrimental to businesses, according to a new industry report. Sixty-six percent of German security officers said they did not work with business stakeholders to align cost, performance, and risk mitigation goals with the company's needs and priorities. So stated 45 ...

Read more