Endpoint/Device Security

An Avast global survey measuring data preservation habits found that despite not backing up regularly users are concerned with the data in their devices.

The rate of Potentially Harmful Application installs on Android devices decreased nearly 50 percent from early 2014 to later that year, according to a Google report.

The rise of IoT will require a completely new approach to network security, says vArmour CEO Timothy Eades.

Given the recent headline-grabbing breaches, in this month's debate information security professionals discuss whether or not money is safe online.

In a Ponemon report, 2,300 security pros provided their two-year outlook on cryptographic key and digital certificate attacks.

In the Lookout survey, only five percent of smartphone users said they would take the most steps to protect work-related data.

Although most IT professionals believe mobile apps in the workplace have increased security risks, less than half of organizations have a policy in place to define acceptable mobile app use.

A misstep by an IT employee of Canadian communications conglomerate Rogers Communications allowed the contractual information of 50-70 of the company's business customers to be exposed via Twitter.