Wednesday, 08 April 2026

New report from Tessian and the Ponemon Institute reveals that email has become the riskiest channel for data security in today’s organizations

SAN FRANCISCO : New research from email security company Tessian and the Ponemon Institute reveals that nearly 60% of organizations experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the last 12 months. Email was revealed as the riskiest channel for data loss in organizations, as stated by 65% of IT security practitioners. This was closely followed by cloud file-sharing services (62%) and instant messaging platforms (57%).

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Even as IT professionals focus more on data security policies, most do not follow data backup best practices, putting organisations at risk   

Manchester, UK: Apricorn has announced new findings from the Apricorn 2022 Global IT Security Survey, which revealed that while the majority organisations have data backup plans in place, data for many are at risk. Apricorn surveyed nearly 400 veteran IT security practitioners in industries such as healthcare, IT, education, financial services and manufacturing about security practices around remote and hybrid work, focusing on data resiliency—the availability to access and resuscitate corporate data in the event of a ransomware occurrence or other cybersecurity attack.  

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Richmond, Surrey, UK: Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s most influential information security event, has selected Jenny Radcliffe as its Hall of Fame inductee for 2022. Known as The People Hacker, Jenny is the founder and director of Human Factor Security, which provides assessment and consultancy services to help organisations address the human element of cybersecurity – often seen as the ‘weakest link’ in the chain. 
Jenny will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame during Infosecurity Europe 2022 (21-23 June at ExCeL London). Visitor registration for Infosecurity Europe 2022 is open here.  

She will also deliver the hotly anticipated Infosecurity Hall of Fame Annual Lecture 2022 on Thursday 23 June at 11:20am, on the Keynote Stage. In her presentation – Facta Non Verba - Six Life Lessons from a Social Engineer –Jenny will reflect on a lifetime of social engineering and physical infiltration work, discussing the most important lessons she’s learned and sharing her thoughts on how her profession, and the industry as a whole, might continue into the future. 

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ThreatQ Platform and ThreatQ Investigations will be used by telecom conglomerate Comcast, parent of NBC Universal and SKY Group, to operationalise security intelligence across cybersecurity use cases

London, UK: ThreatQuotient™ has selected the ThreatQ Platform and ThreatQ Investigations to meet their cybersecurity operations needs.

Following an extensive and competitive selection process, including a four month proof of concept (POC), ThreatQuotient’s technology solutions ultimately proved to solve a key challenge facing Comcast’s Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC): the need to make security data actionable across multiple teams and complex use cases, including priority threat actor risk mitigation, threat hunting, threat detection engineering, incident response and forensics, and risk-based vulnerability management.

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  1. Armis Launches ‘Critical Infrastructure Protection Program’
  2. OSL and BSO unveil strategic partnership to bolster connectivity for institutional exchange clients
  3. Nebulon Adds Rapid Ransomware Recovery to Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers and 2-Node Distributed Edge Deployments
  4. Egnyte Enhances Program for Managed Service Providers
  5. GHD launches inaugural UK Disruption Index to assess resilience of key business sectors
  6. Over 31,000 stolen and leaked credentials from the FTSE 100 on the Dark Web
  7. Voxel Raises $15M Series A to Decrease Workplace Injuries and Prevent Workplace Accidents
  8. New South Wales, Australia releases its 20-Year R&D Roadmap UK Agent General recommends it to UK businesses
  9. Spectra Logic Unveils Data Storage Outlook Report for 2022
  10. MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED
  11. First Sea Lord encourages Royal Navy to invest in global partnerships and embrace technology
  12. Investment NSW Defence & Aerospace Capabilities Showcased at Global Trade Show Indo Pac
  13. Sodexo featured official book marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant
  14. Exterro Enhances Digital Forensic and Incident Response Automation with Major Upgrades to FTK® Connect
  15. VPS only British company to make British Safety Council shortlist



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