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Organisations spend half a million pounds, annually, dealing with false positive alerts

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A report from The Ponemon Institute reveals that two-thirds of the time spent by security staff responding to malware alerts is wasted because of faulty intelligence. The report found that teams spend, on average, 272 hours each week responding to ‘false positive’ cyber alerts – due to erroneous or inaccurate malware alerts. This equates to an average cost of £515,964 annually, for each organisation, in lost time.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Identity/Access Management Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service Storage + Servers

Check Point vSEC integrates with VMware NSX for dynamic orchestration of advanced threat prevention for all data centre traffic.

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AirWatch by VMware and Mobile Iron lead adoption for security capabilities in the Enterprise Mobility Management market.

Cisco commits US $1 Billion to accelerate UK digital economic growth

Multiple projects over three to five years include investments in education and skills initiatives, a major extension of Cisco’s British Innovation Gateway programme, and $150m of venture capital investments in Internet of Everything UK start-ups.

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Identity/Access Management Networks + Telecoms Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service Wireless

Fortinet has closed the acquisition of Meru Networks. With the close of this acquisition, Fortinet expands on its secure wireless vision and enterprise growth focus, broadens the company’s solutions portfolio, and expands its opportunity to uniquely address the $5B global enterprise Wi-Fi market with integrated and intelligent secure wireless solutions.

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MWR InfoSecurity launches Countercept service – to catch a thief it has to think like one.

Rise in ransomware attacks reinforces the need for organisations to back up their data

New research from Databarracks reveals almost a third of UK organisations have been hit by...

MSPs ramp up security offerings

Survey reveals that half of MSPs now manage their customers’ compliance obligations.

Financial services organizations suffer $1.3M cyber attacks

88% of financial services organizations surveyed experienced DNS attacks in the past 12 months.

Kaseya unveils innovations at Kaseya DattoCon Europe

Combining the best of Kaseya Connect and DattoCon, the first joint event since the acquisition of...

STFC Hartree Centre signs agreement with Lenovo for state-of-the-art supercomputer

Powerful new supercomputer will help UK industry to harness the potential of artificial...

Skills shortages, automation and gaining context remain a challenge for SOCs

Antony Perridge, VP International, ThreatQuotient, on the state of the SOC.

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