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Study finds IT professionals lack confidence in their ability to detect and contain cyberbreaches would be unable to contain it within one hour .
The study , conducted by Widmeyer , which surveyed 751 IT decisionmakers from the US , UK and Asia- Pacific , also revealed that a majority of organisations are only moderately confident in their ability to protect their companies against hackers . ogRhythm , the security
L intelligence company , has released its annual benchmark survey , which measures the cybersecurity perceptions and practices of organisations in the United States , United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific regions .
LogRhythm has released its annual benchmark survey , which measures the cybersecurity perceptions and practices of organisations in the United States , United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific regions
Among its top findings , the new research study , Cybersecurity : Perceptions & Practices , found that less than half of all organisations were able to detect a major cybersecurity incident within one hour . Even more concerning , less than one-third said that even if they detected a major incident , they
Matt Winter , VP of Marketing and Business Development at LogRhythm , said : “ Cyberthreats continue to grow in volume and intensity . Seemingly every month , another massive security breach dominates the headlines .
“ To combat these threats , organisations need to carefully plan their budgets and strategies , while developing effective programmes that tackle specific threats and keep them one step ahead of cyberattackers .”
KASPERSKY LAB BUSINESS INCUBATOR PRESENTS POLYS
nline voting appeals to many
O aspects of modern society , but the risks of making critical choices online are also high , with largescale online voting opening up vast opportunities for cybercriminals to fix the results .
An innovation from the Kaspersky Lab Business Incubator was announced during Kaspersky Lab ’ s Cyber Security Weekend for the Middle East , Turkey and Africa , offering a possible solution .
As part of a research project focused on exploring the potential implementations of innovative technologies such as blockchain , Kaspersky Lab Business Incubator has fostered a talented team of developers who have worked on an experimental project called Polys .
Polys is based on smart contracts in Ethereum ( sometimes referred to as Blockchain 2.0 ) which allows ballot verification and vote tallies to be performed in a decentralised manner . The main benefit is that , due to blockchain ’ s decentralised nature , the accuracy of voting execution can be verified by the network ’ s participants .
The whole voting data is stored not on servers , but in information blocks on the computers of all network participants .
To erase it , a hacker would have to breach all of the computers and gain access to the individual sets of data . Blockchain also allows a voter to easily check if their vote has been registered correctly and any tampering of votes will automatically become evident .
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