Commenting on a report from the European Forum on the Security of Retail Payments – which recommends the use of strong two (or more) factor authentication for online payments – SecurEnvoy says it welcomes the conclusions.

 According to Steve Watts, co-founder of the tokenless® two-factor authentication specialist, news of the report’s recommendations are effectively qualified with an observation that the client-side hardware for use with the authentication process may not be as easy to use as you might think.

Read more: SecurEnvoy welcomes authentication recommendations of European Forum security report

·         One in seven large organisations has been hacked in the last year

·         The average large organisations face a significant outsider attack every week - small businesses face one a month

·         20% of organisations spend less than 1% of their IT budget on information security

·         Customer impersonation up threefold since 2008 – financial services affected most

Read more: Rising security breaches cost UK plc billions in the last year, shows new PwC/Infosecurity Europe...

Avecto survey reveals the hidden dangers of mismanaging your user admin rights

Manchester (UK) and Boston (USA) 20 April 2012 – Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, revealed the results of its recent survey that showed the massive cost to both organizations and people of mismanaging user admin rights.

·   19% missed a critical deadline as a result of being denied full access to an application, 14% lost a job and 6% missed a promotion

·   Nearly three in ten people don’t have access to all the applications they need to do their jobs

Read more: 19% missed a critical deadline because they couldn’t access the right applications, 14% lost a job...

·         Only 38% of large organisations ensure that their data held by external providers is encrypted

  • ·         56% of small businesses don’t check their external provider’s security
  • ·         Half of organisations of national importance use cloud for business critical data

 Many UK companies are failing to keep a proper check on the security of their data held by third parties offering cloud computing services, new research shows. 

Read more: UK companies leaving the security of their data on cloud to chance, shows research by...

Gothenburg, 2012 April 17 – Cryptzone, Europe’s IT Threat Mitigation specialists, today announced the launch of the Directors Portal. The portal is a state-of-the-art web based, online workspace, devoted exclusively for board level executives. The portal will be demonstrated for the first time at Infosecurity Europe in London from 24th to 26th April 2012. The portal is available as an iPad app to make it always available to the Director who is always on the go.

Read more: Directors Portal for the iPad makes even the least security savvy board member secure