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Semafone helps customers meet TLS compliance deadlines ahead of PCI standards

Guildford, UK: Semafone has updated its solution, issuing Semafone Version 3.2 to fast-track customer migration from vulnerable TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption protocols.

: LISA COUTTS; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 11 April 2016 05:56

Preservica joins the Information Governance Initiative to support preservation of long-term digital records

Preservica has become a ‘Supporter’ of the Information Governance Initiative (IGI), and will join forces with the think tank for a quantitative research project to benchmark the unique challenge of protecting long-term digital records.

: ILONA HITEL; InfoSecurity; Posted On Monday, 11 April 2016 05:50

BSI revises Code of practice for safe use of cranes

BSI, the business standards company has revised BS 7121-1 Code of practice for safe use of cranes. General. This is one part of the BS 7121 suite of standards for safety in crane use, which is used by those planning and carrying out lifting operations with cranes in the UK.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Friday, 08 April 2016 08:33

Tripwire Study: Energy sector sees dramatic rise in successful cyber attacks

A Tripwire study which assessed cyber security challenges faced by organizations in the energy sector that included responses from over 150 IT professionals in energy, utilities, and oil and gas, found that two-thirds of the respondents (sixty-eight percent) said the rate of successful cyber attacks had increased by over twenty percent in the last month.

Some additional findings from the study include:

•Energy executives were more than twice as likely to believe their organization detected every cyber attack (forty-three percent) than nonexecutives (seventeen percent).

•In the last 12 months, seventy-eight percent of the respondents said they experienced a cyber attack from an external source, and thirty percent have seen an attack from an inside employee.

•Forty-four percent of the respondents indicated they have not gathered enough information to identify the sources of cyber attacks on their organizations.

•Nearly one-fourth (twenty-two percent) of the respondents admitted their organizations do not have business processes to identify sensitive and confidential information.

PORTLAND, Ore: Tripwire, Inc. has announced the results of a study conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research. The study, which was carried out in November 2015, assessed cyber security challenges faced by organizations in the energy sector. Study respondents included over 150 IT professionals in the energy, utilities, and oil and gas industries.