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Security gurus react to CEP's survey on Risk Mitigation through Cyber Insurance

The Corporate Executive Programme (CEP) has carried out the study which examines the current business behaviour among behind large (billion dollar revenue ) and mid sized (1milllion to 1billion) enterprises in the US and UK towards cyber insurance.

CEP is a not-for-profit independent organisation which exists to identify new threats and trends in relation to information security and to help organisations deal with them.

The study sheds light on the extent to which specific factors are impacting on individual business approach to dedicated cyber insurance; for example, business size, sector and the ways companies have organised themselves to manage, and purchase for, risk and security.

: Lucy Harvey; Case Studies; Posted On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 10:25

The Islamic State Group in Libya

If you have ever been puzzled as to whether the former name of the Islamic State group (IS) was ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), your confusion may soon be over: ISIL seems to have staged a dramatic comeback; ISIL, that is, Islamic State in Inflammable Libya.

: HUSAM DUGHMAN; Terrorism Watch; Posted On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 10:17

University of Liverpool tackles file sharing securely with Varonis DatAnywhere

LONDON, UK: Varonis Systems, Inc. has confirmed how it is working with University of Liverpool to overcome the challenge of users moving sensitive data to personal cloud-based storage. With Varonis DatAnywhere, the university now offers its 32,000 students and 4,700 staff the flexibility to sync its file-share data across all of their devices with the added ability to securely share files with external collaborators. Within eight days of rolling out the software, the university had 1,366 new DatAnywhere users.

: LARA LACKIE; Case Studies; Posted On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 10:12

At Munich world leaders and civil society activists rub minds over current threats to global security

Both the conference itself and numerous side events at Hotel Bayerischer Hof, the conference venue, serve as places where a wide range of key issues in international affairs are debated in detail and from different perspectives – including disarmament, cyber governance, and global health. This year, for instance, Salil Shetty of Amnesty International and Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo will debate with world leaders about the global refugee crisis and global governance issues. And more than 100 side events over the course of the conference weekend will bring together participants from all over the world.