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IDG study: IT service management 

IDG study: With Corona, ITSM - IT service management is becoming a central topic for companies. Around half increases budgets for ITSM and ESM. The corona pandemic has not only had a lasting impact on people's everyday lives around the world, but is also causing massive cuts in the world of work: In the past year, numerous companies switched to home or mobile offices, with corresponding challenges for IT operations. How this situation has influenced the topic of ITSM, but also Enterprise Service Management (ESM), is the subject of the "Study IT Service Management 2021". The market research company IDG interviewed IT decision-makers and IT specialists in ...

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BSI: Home office increases attack surface
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

BSI business survey: The home office situation in pandemic times increases the attack surface for cyber criminals and thus has an impact on the information security of commercial enterprises in Germany. That is the result of a representative survey of 1.000 companies and operations that the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) presented today at a digital press conference in Bonn. Further results at a glance: Corona has more than doubled the number of home office workplaces. 58% of the companies surveyed want to maintain or expand the offer even after the pandemic. Companies that want to establish home offices prefer digitization projects. 2/3 ...

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Ivanti study: Home office increases IT security budget
Ivanti study: Home office increases IT security budget

Where there is light, there is also shadow: Continuously growing investments in IT security can turn into cost traps. A current study by Ivanti shows that budgets for IT security will also increase significantly in some cases in the coming months. The reason is that companies continue to work to adapt to the challenge of an Everywhere Workplace. The danger here: The flood of tasks to safeguard a decentralized workforce can tend to lead to IT security costs getting out of hand. 400 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the EMEA region were interviewed for the study. The…

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Every 2nd company with a dedicated IT security team 
Every 2nd company with a dedicated IT security team

Almost half of the world's large companies have a dedicated IT security team in their IT department. Cybersecurity is managed by a dedicated department in half (52 percent) of all large companies, while only 20 percent have an internal Security Operation Center (SOC), which is responsible for the continuous monitoring and response to security incidents. A current Kaspersky study shows what the typical IT security department looks like today: An improvement in the specialist knowledge of internal specialists is cited as the second most common reason for increasing the IT security budget in the coming years. Only 20 percent of companies have ...

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Automated cyber attacks on web applications

New Barracuda investigation: Cyber ​​criminals are increasingly turning to bots and automation to make their attacks more efficient and to avoid detection. Barracuda analyzed a two-month data sample of web application attacks that were blocked by Barracuda systems and found a massive number of automated attacks. The top five attacks were dominated by attacks carried out with automated tools. Almost 20 percent of the attacks discovered were fuzzing attacks in which automation attempts to find and exploit application vulnerabilities. Injection attacks followed with around 12 percent, whereby most of the attackers automated ...

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Multi-cloud and cybersecurity dominate e-commerce
Multi-cloud and cybersecurity dominate e-commerce

E-commerce study by A10 Networks: Multi-cloud and cybersecurity dominate IT in e-commerce, polynimbus approach becomes essential. Rising business volumes, complex multi-cloud architectures and increasing cyber threats mean a multitude of challenges for IT organizations in e-commerce. A recent study by A10 Networks and Gatepoint Research examined the latest trends in e-commerce IT. The current survey is particularly relevant due to the simultaneous focus of executives on digital business growth and overcoming essential challenges in the areas of cybersecurity and multi-cloud management. The results illustrate the existence of an increasingly complex and diverse e-commerce technology landscape. In addition, a growing awareness can ...

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Access data misuse doubles

F5 study: Incidents with login data doubled since 2016. Credential Stuffing Report extensively investigates credential abuse. The number of annual credential-related incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. This is shown by the current Credential Stuffing Report from F5. The largest study of its kind found a 46 percent decrease in the number of stolen credentials over the same period. The average amount of data fell from 63 million records in 2016 to 17 million last year. The mean size increased in 2020 (2 million records) to 234 percent compared to 2019 and was ...

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SME investments in IT security 
SME investments in IT security

SMEs are currently investing in IT security. This is reported by a new ESET study. The willingness of companies to invest in IT security and digitization is picking up speed despite the pandemic in 2021. The digitization of the economy is in full swing, investments are being made more heavily than ever before. But what role does IT security play in this: Are companies sticking to the status quo or are they sustainably accepting the challenge of the changing market situation caused by Corona? The IT security manufacturer ESET pursued this question in a representative survey in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. And the results show that company leaders ...

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Data quality for machine learning and artificial intelligence
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

IDC study: Ensuring data quality as well as recording and classification of relevant data slows down data-driven business models in Germany - also for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Extensively growing amounts of data in companies, enormous computing power and powerful analysis tools offer companies and organizations of all industries and sizes excellent framework conditions for the successful use of comprehensive analytics approaches of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This means that, in theory at least, they have very good prerequisites for using their data to optimize internal processes and to develop new business models in order to remain competitive. That the reality in this country ...

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41% see cyber risks as the greatest business risk
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

McAfee publishes a survey by IDG Research Services: 41% of companies in Germany consider cyber risks the greatest business risk IDG Research Services published its cyber security study at the end of 2020 and describes, among other things, current threats, business risks and challenges, the trend towards AI and the desire for open solutions in IT security. Results of the study 6 out of 10 companies are insured against cyber crime - almost one in five does not know what exactly is insured 5% of the large (but “only” 54% of the small) companies have already suffered damage from cyber crime 38 ...

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