A new study from ESET UK has revealed that 80 percent of IT professionals believe social media is an easy way for hackers to gain access to corporate networks because it is often neglected in terms of security, and furthermore 36 percent even admit that their company could be breached by a hacker through one of their employees’ social media access at work.
The Ministry of Defence is investing £80 million in new world-class equipment to help train the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopter pilots and rear crews of the future.
A £51 million contract with Lockheed Martin UK will support Chinook Mk 6 training and a £29 million contract has been awarded to AgustaWestland to provide Merlin Mk 4/4a aircrew Synthetic Training Devices. The simulators will be based at military bases in Somerset and Hampshire with the two contracts providing around 130 jobs, including for the construction of a new schoolhouse.
New York: Options has announced the acquisition of Jake Roy Pillar LLC. Jake Roy Pillar, headquartered in New York, is a technology consultancy for the financial industry and primarily hedge funds. The financial terms of the deal, which closed in the second quarter of 2015, have not been disclosed but the acquisition will see the technology consultancy form an additional business unit within Options called Options Advisory.
PHOENIX: BeyondTrust's PowerBroker Windows v6.7 was awarded a silver medal in the “Identity Management” category for the 2015 Info Security Global Excellence Awards. Additionally, the company’s Retina CS Enterprise Vulnerability Management solution was named a bronze winner in the “Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation and Management” category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technology.
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