Seeking the business benefits generated by private cloud and to free themselves from the rigid silos of traditional IT infrastructures, organizations are turning to an approach that extends virtualization to all compute, network, and storage resources in their datacenters. This approach requires pooling and aggregating resources into a single utility that can be provisioned, operated,
Your website is your shop front, your brand on display and an essential sales and marketing tool. You spent a lot of money building it and attracting visitors. It is business critical: it would be a disaster if that shop front were smashed, your reputation was tarnished and visitors stopped coming. This is why website
In 2013 attention was focused on cyber-espionage, threats to privacy and the acts of malicious insiders. However, the end of 2013 provided a painful reminder that cybercrime remains prevalent and that damaging threats from cybercriminals continue to cast a shadow over businesses and consumers. Eight breaches in 2013 each exposed more than 10 million identities
In 2012 Symantec performed more than 1,400 website vulnerability scans each day. More than half the websites scanned were found to have unpatched, potentially exploitable vulnerabilities. Of the vulnerable sites, a quarter were actually infected with malware that could infect visitors and lead to the sites being blacklisted by search engines. These figures show that
Nearly a quarter of IT managers simply don’t know how secure their website is. However, with the rising number of web-attacks blocked per day, it’s vital for businesses to understand the part their website plays in the distribution of malware to clients, customers and the wider online community.
The web has been overrun by data thieves. In their battle to obtain your information, ignorance is their greatest weapon, knowledge their greatest foe. Don’t let their next victim be you or your organisation.
2011’s security breach at Sony’s PlayStation Network is thought to be the largest data security leakage ever and was so damaging its effects are still being felt today – in January 2013 the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) fined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe £250,000 ($396,100) following what was described as a ‘serious breach’ of the
As one of the top cybercrime ploys impacting both consumers and businesses, phishing has remained a consistently potent threat over the past several years. In fact, there was an average of over 37,000 phishing attacks each month in 2012. This paper highlights the current growth and trends in today’s phishing schemes, the potential impact on companies,
As a large retailer, your ultimate goal is likely to sell more products and find new customers, but you also have a brand to manage. Image is cherished and prices communicate cachet, so the idea of selling your products on Amazon to a mass audience has been tabled in the past because it simply doesn’t
Given the current state of the economy, retailers are looking to further diversify their businesses and grow sales by venturing out to other online channels. Launching on a new marketplace, such as eBay, can present challenges for large retailers from both a technical and business standpoint. Historically, eBay’s business model, with the auction-style listings, was