Manchester UK and Boston USA: Avecto has welcomed the latest Ponemon Institute report, which concludes that staff negligence or maliciousness is the root cause of most data breaches.
- REGINE HARTMANN
- InfoSecurity
- Posted On
Thursday, 09 October 2025
Penetration Testing and Network Forensics courses available from March 31st to April 5th
The SANS Institute is offering two of its popular security training courses in Abu Dhabi this coming March. SANS Certified Instructor Pieter Danhieux will be teaching the Security 560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course to help security professionals build a penetration testing and ethical hacking infrastructure that include the appropriate hardware, software, network infrastructure, and test tools arsenal, with specific low-cost recommendations for maximising effectiveness on a limited budget.
- DAWN NICHOLLS
- InfoSecurity
- Posted On
London, UK: Commenting on research that has detected DDoS attacks being used as a competitive weapon, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say this is a new attack trend that will have many IT security managers on this side of the Atlantic worried.
- HANNAH RAFFERTY
- InfoSecurity
- Posted On
27% of sample reporting security budgets have increased in response proposed changes, yet only 11% automate compliance audits
Ramat Gan, Israel: Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Policy Management solutions, yesterday announced the results of a survey assessing how the recently announced updates to EU Data Protection legislation will impact IT compliance efforts. 42% of the 100 network security managers sampled by the firewall management software provider said the proposed changes led to increased risk awareness within their organization; 34% stated that their attitude towards Continuous Compliance had changed as a result, and 54% believe that automating audits would reduce the organization’s risk of violating the law.
- DARSHNA KAMANI
- InfoSecurity
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