The key benefits for high availability load balancing
The load balancer market is expected to grow to GBP 4.7 billion by 2023, and trends, such as mobile broadband, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, virtualization, remote working, and bring your own device (BYOD) have helped to fuel this growth. The result is that tremendous pressure is being placed on IT departments to ensure high availability for mission-critical applications, such as ERP,... By Sanjai Gangadharan
Cloud technologies leading businesses through COVID-19 crisis: Study
38% of businesses have scaled infrastructure to meet new levels of demand during the lockdown period (March-June), highlighting how the pandemic has accelerated businesses’ digital transformation plans, according to results of Aptum Technologies’ COVID-19 Cloud Impact study. The findings also demonstrate that organizations that adopted cloud technologies prior to the pandemic have been best... By CIO&Leader
DDoS protection - like airbags in your car
In India, over 415 deaths occur every day due to road accidents either due to drivers’ negligence or due to not taking enough safety measures like use of helmets or airbags. If we have never been involved in a car accident, that doesn’t mean we will never need airbags. In our business environment, customers who haven’t been attacked in a long time start to wonder whether they still needed DDoS... By Nikhil Taneja
Email impersonations are bombarding inboxes, targeting an increasingly distracted and dispersed workforce: Survey
Impersonations have become pervasive, and are by far the most prevalent type of email-based attack ending up in business’s inboxes, according to GreatHorn’s survey, titled Email Security Challenges, Trends and Benchmarks. Emphasizing the trend, nearly half of respondents (48.7%) reported seeing impersonations of people such as colleagues, customers or vendors preying on the sense of urgency of an... By CIO&Leader
Bolstering cybersecuirty one of the top priorities for healthcare IT pros in 2020: Survey
Healthcare IT executives accepted more accountability than in previous years to provide the safe and reliable technology tools necessary to deliver high-quality, connected, and cost-effective care, according to survey results of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The survey results also highlighted the importance of a team approach with support across the organization in helping CIOs achieve the vision... By CIO&Leader
Securing the cloud during remote work
About two years ago, CISOs were saying they were bringing back on-premises some components that they initially had started to migrate to the cloud as part of their digital transformation journey. Were these voices going to turn into a trend? In fact, a Fortinet commissioned survey by an independent company showed that 72% of respondents had actually migrated one component back... By Rajesh Maurya
Global IT spending to decline 7.3% in 2020: Gartner
The global IT spending will total USD 3.5 trillion in 2020, a decline of 7.3% from 2019, according to Gartner. While the global economy is expected to witness a ‘swoosh’ recovery, IT spending will experience more of a ‘swoop’ recovery. “Overall IT spending is still expected to sharply decline in 2020 but will recover in a faster and smoother manner than the economy,” said John-David... By CIO&Leader
Organizations to move beyond passwords in 2020: Study
Organizations will move beyond passwords and adopt non-password authentication methods, such as biometrics in 2020 and beyond, according to Netwrix’s study, outlining the cybersecurity trends. Although the massive transition to remote work in response to the global pandemic has led to an increase in cyber-attacks, Netwrix experts don’t envision dramatic shifts in the cybersecurity threat... By CIO&Leader
India third most 'cyber attacked' country
Over the last decade, cyber security has rapidly become a concerning problem. Rightfully so, given how a cyber-attack can compromise an organization’s key functions and processes within a matter of seconds, exposing sensitive data to opportunistic criminals. The impact and severity of cyber-attacks can be exhibited by a report from Cybersecurity Ventures, which predicts that cyber-attacks... By CIO&Leader
Growing security alerts driving demand for cloud SIEM solutions in the SOC: Study
Security professionals are facing barriers on the path to modernizing the security operations center (SOC). The struggle to effectively manage high volumes of security alerts and the complexities associated with traditional SIEMs are driving the demand for a new approach to effectively address challenges in the SOC through cloud-native SIEMs combined with security automation capabilities,... By CIO&Leader
70% of organizations fall victim to public cloud cybersecurity incidents: Survey
Nearly three quarters (70%) of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year – including ransomware and other malware (50%), exposed data (29%), compromised accounts (25%), and cryptojacking (17%), according to Sophos’ The State of Cloud Security 2020 survey. Organizations running multi-cloud environments are greater than 50% more likely to suffer a cloud security... By CIO&Leader