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86% of customers would shun brands following a data breach

If credit card details are compromised, shoppers will not return to do business

Surrey: New research commissioned by Semafone® has revealed that the overwhelming majority of people would not do business with a company that had failed to protect its customers’ card data. In the survey, conducted by OnePoll, 86.55% of 2,000 respondents stated that they were “not at all likely” or “not very likely” to do business with an organisation that had suffered a data breach involving credit or debit card details. The proportion of women expressing this view was 91.48%, which was markedly higher than the figure of 81.93% for men.

: Xanthe Vaughan Williams; Case Studies; Posted On Monday, 07 April 2014 11:56

EU-OSHA campaign calls on employers and workers to tackle it together

Today in Brussels the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) launched a two year Europe-wide campaign: ‘Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress’. The prevalence of work-related stress in Europe is startling. EU-OSHA’s latest pan-European opinion poll revealed that 51 % of workers find work-related stress to be common in their workplace and 4 in 10 workers think that stress is not handled well in their organisation. However, together employers and workers can successfully manage and prevent work-related stress and psychosocial risks; the Healthy Workplaces Campaign aims to help companies do just that.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Monday, 07 April 2014 11:45

Cwm Taf University Health Board radically cuts management time and energy costs with 2,500 IGEL thin clients

Reading, UK: Cwm Taf University Health Board has deployed 2,500 IGEL thin clients across its hospitals, clinics, GP surgeries and administration offices radically saving management time and cutting energy costs.

: Paul Smith; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 07 April 2014 11:30

WatchGuard reinvents Advanced Persistent Threat Management with launch of APT blocker

WatchGuard® Technologies has announced its new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) solution, WatchGuard APT Blocker. Delivering real-time threat visibility and protection in minutes, not hours, APT Blocker identifies and submits suspicious files to a cloud-based, next-generation sandbox, using the industry's most sophisticated full-system-emulation environment for detecting APTs and zero day malware. The WatchGuard solution integrates with the company's visibility tool, WatchGuard Dimension™ providing an instant, single view of advanced threats, along with other top trends, applications and threats covered by WatchGuard's security technologies.