Companies not confident in their ability to comply with GDPR: Report
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect in May 2018 and will mandate that organizations have an incident response plan in place. At least 77% of respondents said in a new study condcted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM Resilient, do not have an incident response plan that is applied consistently across the entire enterprise. Most countries surveyed do not report... By CSO Forum
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica row: Do Facebook users really care about online privacy?
Most of you may not have heard of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. It is a phenomenon where you may come across an obscure piece of information - and soon afterwards encounter the same subject over and over again. Now think about your online browsing habits. Today contextual advertising allows advertisers to use your data and display them as ads on other websites. Now Facebook, like many... By Shubhra Rishi
Gender Disparity: Beginning of the End
Why are there so few women in tech? We have addressed this question many times before. And we have found commonly cited answers, attributed to the pipeline problem in tech, unconscious bias, and the lack of good mentors. Last year, while addressing this question, we spoke to three IT leaders and asked them how they dealt with each issue. We found that they were able to overcome them in one way... By Shubhra Rishi
From the Editor: Talk, Women, Talk
Do organizations need to intervene to ensure gender parity at the workplace? The question, even after two decades of the issue being raised, is still being debated. What’s worse, I hear the same arguments that I used to hear 10 years back. And some of them are from young women themselves. ‘Why should women be given special consideration?’, ‘Does it mean we are less capable?’, ‘If men and women... By Shyamanuja Das
Securing the digital supply chain
Ensuring a secure supply chain is a necessary precondition in today’s world of commerce. The digital supply chain has emerged as the weakest link for the potential insertion of malware backdoors. Governments and industry are just getting around to addressing the various concerns relating to supply-chain security. When it comes to data security challenges, human and technological influences can... By Rahul Kumar
A 5-point framework for future-proofing backup and recovery
Experts predict that most enterprises will experience a 50x data growth by 2020. Yet many companies are still taking a traditional and generic approach when it comes to backup, recovering and retaining ever-growing amounts of data. The result is sprawling data sets and backup systems, leading to substantial risk of data loss and inability to recover in a timely manner. So how can organizations... By Ajay Ahuja
India worst hit by ransomware: Study
Indian businesses are at a risk of repeated ransomware attacks and are vulnerable to exploits, according to Sophos’ India findings of its survey, The State of End-point Security Today. The survey polled more than 2,700 IT decision makers across mid-sized businesses in 10 countries worldwide, including the US, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, the UK, Australia, Japan, South Africa and India. The... By CIO&Leader
Cloud apps and web portals are the biggest targets for attackers: Survey
The mainstreaming of cloud and the use of a disparate range of devices within businesses has led to nearly two-thirds of IT decision makers admitting that their security teams are considering implementing consumer-grade access to cloud services for employees. Gemalto’s 2018 Identity and Access Management Index Survey interviewed more than 1,000 IT decision makers globally and found that a... By IT Next
VMware expands its Cloud offerings
To help customers better manage the complexity and risk of multiple Cloud environments, Cloud infrastructure and business mobility leader VMware recently expanded its Cloud portfolio. By extending consistent operations from the datacenter to the Cloud, VMware is offering end-to-end visibility of cloud usage, infrastructure cost, network performance, detailed application monitoring and... By IANS
Gender Equality: Good intent is not turning into real action
According to the 2018 Grant Thornton report on gender diversity titled 'Women in business: beyond policy to progress", those countries in which businesses have the most policies around equal pay, paid parental leave, flexible hours in place are not necessarily those that demonstrate the most gender diversity. "Policy alone does not create real progress," noted the study. The most common... By CIO&Leader
Recommendations for business leaders to increase gender diversity
According to Grant Thornton, the professional services company, that has tracked the progress of women in business around the globe for 14 years, explores how business leaders think and feel, and outlines practical steps that can create change. 1. Champion the cause: To create change, senior leadership need to take the issue seriously and lead from the top.... By CIO&Leader