Information security, both in-cloud and on-premise, was somewhat higher profile during 2015. The top three threats for the year for cloud environments were (in decreasing order of importance) app attacks, suspicious activity, and brute force.
People go to their “panic stations” (or rather, their designated disaster recovery roles!) to contain and repair the damage.
If the business and IT environment fluctuates so much, why then is it still important to do penetration testing?
Instead of (or as well as) trying to sneak past a firewall with a few innocent-looking data packets, the DOS attack tries to cripple a network
What does it take to get PC or server backups to work properly and bring computers back to operational status?
When it comes to singling out sectors that are in the forefront of disaster recovery, finance is often quoted as an example. With so much depending on the ability to recover systems and data rapidly after any incident, major banks were among the first to implement hot failover data centres for instance – as well…