Category Archives: Jason Hart

The rising use of personal identities in the workplace

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90% of enterprise IT professionals are concerned that employee reuse of personal credentials for work purposes could compromise security. However, with 68% saying they would be comfortable allowing employees to use their social media credentials on company resources, Gemalto’s research suggests that personal applications (such as email) are the biggest worry to organisations. The enterprise and consumer worlds are merging closer together, with enterprise security teams under increasing pressure to implement the same type of … More → Continue reading The rising use of personal identities in the workplace→

Identity and personal data theft account for 64% of all data breaches

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Data breaches increased 15% in the first six months of 2016 compared to the last six months of 2015, according to Gemalto. Worldwide, there were 974 reported data breaches and more than 554 million compromised data records in the first half of 2016, compared to 844 data breaches and 424 million compromised data records in the previous six months. In addition, 52% percent of the data breaches in the first half of this year did … More → Continue reading Identity and personal data theft account for 64% of all data breaches→

Cyber attacks: Hindsight is 20/20, GDPR is even better

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The dust is beginning to settle on the EU referendum result. But, while the UK’s departure from the union is set to shake things up for many businesses nationwide, there’s at least one EU ruling that UK businesses will still have to comply with: the General Data Protection Regulation. As cybersecurity experts are all aware, the upcoming GDPR was established with the aim of protecting EU residents’ data. It means that businesses will have to … More → Continue reading Cyber attacks: Hindsight is 20/20, GDPR is even better→

A third of organizations experienced a data breach in the past 12 months

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Despite the increasing number of data breaches and more than 3.9 billion data records worldwide being lost or stolen since 2013, organizations continue to believe perimeter security technologies are effective against data breaches, according to Gemalto’s Data Security Confidence Index. Of the 1,100 IT decision makers surveyed worldwide, 61% said their perimeter security systems (firewall, IDPS, AV, content filtering, anomaly detection, etc.) were very effective at keeping unauthorized users out of their network. However, 69% … More → Continue reading A third of organizations experienced a data breach in the past 12 months→