The Pew Research Center recently released research that revealed 86 percent of 792 U.S. Internet users polled have taken steps to mask their digital footprints. From July 11 to 14, the Princeton Survey Research Associates polled people via phone interviews.One of the report’s authors and a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, Sara Kiesler, was [...]
Though the exact rate is unclear, studies are showing that global IT security spending market is in a long period of growth. Recent data from research firm Canalys shows that spending on IT security is growing at a compound rate of 7% per year, expected to reach $30.1 billion by 2017. But Gartner estimates that [...]
A new survey completed by Experian and Ponemon reveals that 76% of the companies surveyed put cyber security as their biggest concern. As a result, more and more companies are turning to cyber insurance to protect against expensive data breaches.According to Christopher Matthews at The Wall Street Journal, the study found that “31% of companies [...]
In international news, a report from the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee has caused UK lawmakers to call cyber crime a “bigger threat than nuclear war,” reported ZDNet. The report found that there’s a lack of police enforcement in preventing cyber criminals from conducing low-level fraudulent attacks.The Independent found in the report that “criminals defrauding [...]
The 2013 Greater Austin Business Award finalists were announced this week, and we are excited and honored to be selected as a finalist among medium companies in the Technology sector for our Enterprise Threat Intelligence offering. We are also proud of our President and Co-Founder Joe Ross, who has also been selected as a finalist [...]
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a study estimating that cyber crime creates a $100 billion loss to the U.S. economy. Additionally, CSIS reports that as many as 508,000 jobs are lost as a result of this economic loss.Earlier reports, according to The Wall Street Journal, have estimated much higher economic loss, “as [...]
Recent surveys from Europe and the United States show that employees spend up to 30% of their working hours on personal matters. According to Infosecurity Magazine, “all of those non-productive hours could translate to not just lost output, but actual negative equity in the form of malware attacks and hacking incidents.”Kaspersky Lab Expert Kirill Kruglov [...]
Juniper Networks Mobile Threat Center released their third annual mobile threats report, which found an increasing presence of mobile application malware in Android devices. Compared to the 28,500 mobile malware apps detected in 2011, Juniper found a total of 276,259 mobile malware apps from March 2012 to March 2013, All Things D reported.While all mobile [...]
The need for trained cyber security personnel has risen in the last five years, according to labor market analytics firm Burning Glass. Listings for cyber security positions rose 73 percent in the last five years, which is 3.5 times faster than postings for computer jobs overall. “Yet, despite the need and the job opportunities (more [...]
The Ponemon Institute released this week “The Risk of Regulated Data on Mobile Devices,” a study that focuses on the risks associated with employee access to regulated data, including health and financial information, through a company or personal mobile device. The report revealed nearly half of IT professionals cannot determine whether their companies are yielding [...]
