Significant gap between IT staff and executives' understanding of security

Gaps in understanding between IT staff and executives when it comes to cybersecurity is tracking to the rate at which advanced and zero-day attacks against businesses are growing, according to a Ponemon Institute survey of UK businesses underwritten by FireEye. Source: Infosecurity Magazine

New Survey Shows 79% Of Businesses Experienced A Mobile Security Incident In The Past Year

Survey shows that 67% of firms allow personal mobile devices to connect to their networks. Source: Dark Reading

5 Big Database Breaches Of Spring 2013

During the past couple of months, data breaches have ranged from the mundane to the fantastic, with each occurrence offering valuable lessons for security professionals with regard to locking down databases and the applications that access them. Source: Dark Reading

Human error and system glitches drive nearly two-thirds of data breaches

According to the Ponemon Institute's 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study, human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012. They also pushed the global average cost to $136 per compromised record. Source: Infosecurity Magazine