Payment security compliance drops for the first time in six years: Study
After documenting improvements in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance over the past six years (2010 – 2016), Verizon’s 2018 Payment Security Report (PSR) now reveals a concerning downward trend with companies failing compliance assessments and perhaps, more importantly, not maintaining - full compliance. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)... By CIO&Leader
Asia-Pacific organizations experience threat-alert fatigue due to increased cloud adoption: Study
Many network security threats today go uninvestigated, with IT professionals struggling to accurately prioritize alerts due to the overwhelming volume generated in an increasingly cloud-reliant work landscape, according to Juniper Networks and Ovum Research’s new report, titled Too Much of a Good Thing? Enterprise Cybersecurity Adoption Trends Across Asia-Pacific. The report polled 350 companies... By CIO&Leader
APAC organizations face growing revenue losses from web application and DoS attacks: Study
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, and Ponemon Institute, revealed the findings from an APAC-wide study that identifies and understands the changes in the cost and consequences of web application and DoS attacks. Businesses surveyed in the study estimated that the total average cost of web application attacks in APAC over the past 12 months was... By CIO&Leader
Global spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence systems to rise in 2022: IDC
Global spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems will continue its trajectory of robust growth as businesses invest in projects that utilize cognitive/AI software capabilities. According to a new update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semi-annual Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Systems Spending Guide, spending on cognitive and AI systems will... By CIO&Leader
Global Martech spend touches USD 100 billion: Study
Martech is capturing a bigger share of the overall marketing budget in organizations. It now accounts for about 23% of total marketing spend, up from 16% just a year back, according to a recently released study. The study puts the estimated Global martech spend at USD 99.9 billion. In the UK and North America alone, brands spend USD 52 billion on martech. Martech: 2019 and Beyond was jointly... By CIO&Leader
ManageEngine launches new endpoint security solution
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, announced its launch of Browser Security Plus, a browser management solution that helps organizations secure their corporate data in the cloud and protect their networks from web-based cyberattacks. Available immediately, Browser Security Plus provides organizations with a layer of management capabilities for browsers and their add-ons to... By CIO&Leader
Financial services industry under constant attack from automated account takeover tools: Study
According to the Akamai 2018 State of the Internet/Security Credential Stuffing Attacks report, worldwide malicious login attempts are on the rise. Findings from the report show that Akamai detected approximately 3.2 billion malicious logins per month from January through April 2018, and over 8.3 billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June 2018 – a monthly average... By CIO&Leader
Indian consumers are likely to prioritize convenience over security in their app experience: Study
Indian consumers are more likely to trade off on app security for convenience, according to a study commissioned by F5 Networks ‘The Curve of Convenience – the trade-off between security and convenience’. While Indian consumers as a whole prioritized security over convenience, they were, on the flipside, also more likely than other Asia Pacific markets to prioritize convenience in their... By CIO&Leader
28% of spending in key IT segments will shift to the cloud by 2022: Gartner
28% of spending within key enterprise IT markets will shift to the cloud by 2022, up from 19% in 2018, according to Gartner. Growth in enterprise IT spending on cloud-based offerings will be faster than growth in traditional, non-cloud IT offerings. Despite this growth, traditional offerings will still constitute 72% of the addressable revenue for enterprise IT markets in 2022, according to... By CIO&Leader
Is there a weak link in your encryption strategy?
Rather like the never-ending pool of news stories about Brexit, many of us have tuned out of reports about data breaches – whether criminally motivated or human error – simply because they’re so common. We’ve become accustomed to stories about customers’ sensitive data being lost. It’s become part of the fabric of our lives. It’s no longer news. IT security teams are doing their best to protect... By Luke Brown
Public cloud and enterprise servers boost datacenter infrastructure market: Study
Over the last 24 months, quarterly spend on datacenter hardware and software has grown by 28%, driven by burgeoning demand for cloud services and increased prices for more fully featured servers, according to Synergy Research Group (SRG)’s new Q2 data. The main beneficiaries have been vendors supplying public cloud infrastructure, who have seen a 54% growth in revenues over the period. Growth for... By CIO&Leader