A new report has revealed that IT professionals are being kept awake with worry of a data breach foremost on their minds. According to the report, released just yesterday, customer, employee and patient information is most at risk from cyber attacks and human error in 2012. Keeping on top of this data- protecting it, managing it is the top concern for IT professionals at the moment. And many are turning to encryption to solve their data loss issues. Should a file get out into the wild, the encryption is the last line of defence in data security...

Banks Set The Trend In Encryption Adoption The banking industry is traditionally one of the most heavily-regulated industries in the world, and so for a long time this industry has been slow to adopt new technologies like cloud applications because of...

With April 1st falling on a Sunday this year, most of us will breathe a sigh of a relief because we will manage to avoid the deluge of silly media pranks that can appear on April Fool’s Day. April Fool’s Day is no laughing matter, however: it is a...

Industry reports suggest that data breach incidents within healthcare organizations are increasing due to increased technology usage and mobile device usage for doctor-patient interaction and record keeping. We already know that between 2009 and 2011...

A new survey report has concluded that a startling amount of companies have “limited or no understanding of the difference between sensitive information and other data”. That’s the conclusion of the survey “The Current State of IT Security and...

When the cost of a data breach moves to over $7.3 million, accounting firms sit up and take notice. The average cost of a data breach has in fact been growing every year, and in the age of electronic data the figure is mushrooming. The Ponemon institute...