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Businesses welcome BYOD for the operational cost savings and user experience

Acceptance of “Bring Your Own Device” means companies must get to grips with Cloud and Application Security

London: Company policies supporting Bring Your Own Device are being widely embraced as a win-win initiative that improves employees’ experience and reduces IT costs, according to results released today of the (ISC)2® 2013 Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted on behalf of the (ISC)2 Foundation by the analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. At the same time, information security managers admit that companies must do more to understand the security of the technologies behind the trend, particularly for cloud-based systems and applications.

: NIKKI ALVEY; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:05

Alaric opens In-flight Data Analytics Research Centre in Rome

Alaric, a global supplier of fraud prevention and payments solutions, has opened a Rome based data analytics research centre to further develop the ultra high-performance numerical algorithms for its acclaimed Fractals fraud detection system. Such algorithms are critical to ensuring truly effective ‘in-flight’ fraud prevention. The investment is seen as a reflection of a long standing relationship with the data-mining group at the Sapienza Università di Roma.

: LEIGH RICHARDS; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:00

Netplan’s vCloud Platform selected for Entegraty’s Sage CRM Solution in the Cloud

Middlemarch, Coventry, UK: Surging demand from SMB and midmarket customers drove Entegraty to search for a cloud service provider to host their Sage CRM offering. They selected Netplan’s VMware vCloud platform for their expertise and knowledge.

: ZOE DAVIES, REALWIRE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VIGILANCE; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 13:54

Technology failing as workers swamped by phishing attacks with 6 in 10 being Phished Daily – PhishMe Research

London: Research from PhishMe has uncovered the scale of the phishing problem in UK businesses – with nearly 60% of office workers receiving phishing emails at work every single day, and 6% receiving more than 10 phishing emails every day.