Businesses spend just 5% of budgets on IT security
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Businesses are spending on average just over 5% of their overall IT budgets on trying to prevent the latest hacks and security breaches, according to analyst house Gartner. Despite the growing risk of threats facing organisations, surprisingly, Gartner said that The post Businesses spend just 5% […]
Former NYPD Officer Peter Liang Won’t Spend a Day in Prison for Akai Gurley’s Death
There’s no dispute over whether former NYPD officer Peter Liang shot and killed Akai Gurley in a darkened Brooklyn stairwell in November of 2014. But after a jury found him guilty on charges of manslaughter in a high-profile trial, a judge reduced the charge to criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday, reported NBC News. Though Liang […]
US University to spend $3 million on cyber security after hack attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Rutgers University in New Brunswick is to spend up to $3 million (£1.9 million) on cyber security to prevent hackers crippling the university’s computer networks. This expensive action is in response to at least four cyber attacks during the 2014-2015 school year that knocked the school […]
CISOs spend 77% of their time on tech, not enough time on strategy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to the Deloitte CISO Transition Lab, a chief information security officer (CISO) has four faces — the strategist, the advisor, the guardian of business assets, and the technologist. The findings suggest that on average, CISOs spend 77 percent of their time as “technologists” and “guardians” […]
Incident response spend up as firms recognise cyber attacks are inevitable
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans European firms are shifting their cyber security investment from traditional prevention and protection to detection and response capabilities, a study has revealed. The shift in spending is due to a realisation that cyber attacks are inevitable, according to the study by analysis and consultancy firm Pierre […]
Bulgarian hacker on the run for 10 years will spend next 30 months in prison in N.J. cybercrime case
After a decade on the run, a Bulgarian national tied to a worldwide cybercrime ring responsible for racking up millions in unauthorized bank charges was sentenced today to 30 months in prison. Aleksi Kolarov, 32, who pleaded guilty to identify […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post […]
Coast Guard will spend millions for Sandy-related emergency supplies without ‘full and open competition’
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Due to the urgent need for food, shelter and other services in the Northeast in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. Coast Guard has authorized the procurement of as much as $30 million worth of mortuary services, construction, bottled water, trailers, food services and shelter from a group […]
ASIS 2012: Napolitano calls on industry to spend more on cyber preparedness
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: DHS SecretaryJanet Napolitano When DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano received the 2012 CSO Roundtable’s “Leadership and Security Award” and addressed a luncheon crowd at the ASIS show in Philadelphia on September 10, the not-so-subtle message she seemed to deliver was this: I’m telling you the cyber-threat is real, […]
ProtectMyID: U.S. consumers will spend about $700 this holiday season. Make sure identity thieves don’t increase that amount. http://t.co/TfQom9SG
ProtectMyID: U.S. consumers will spend about $700 this holiday season. Make sure identity thieves don’t increase that amount. http://t.co/TfQom9SG View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
LIGATT: There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley
LIGATT: There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley View full post on Twitter / LIGATT Gergory Evans