ISACA helps enterprises manage vendors using the COBIT 5 Framework

As enterprises increasingly rely on cloud service providers and other vendors to provide fundamental services, the related risk becomes more significant. Global IT association ISACA has released a new guide applying the internationally accepted COBIT 5 governance framework to help enterprises effectively manage vendors.

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ISACA updates IS Audit and Assurance Standards

ISACA has issued revised Information Systems (IS) Audit and Assurance Standards. The standards, available at www.isaca.org/standards, have an effective date of 1 November 2013.

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Retailers suffer 2x more SQL injection attacks than other industries

Imperva has released the results of the fourth annual Imperva Web Application Attack Report (WAAR), which reveals that retailers suffer twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries. Additionally, these attacks were more intense, both in terms of number of attacks per incident and duration of each incident. In fact, retail applications received an average of 749 individual attack requests per attack campaigns.

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Employees are number one Cyber-security threat

Companies failing to respond to customer demand for proven cyber-security credentials.

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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