Despite stringent regulatory mandates, the healthcare industry has been an avid adopter of new technology. Mobility in particular has proven to be a boon for doctors and other hospital staff. For this reason, looking at IT implementations within healthcare organizations can serve as a good way to le...

Cybercriminal tactics have evolved to not only become more efficient at stealing sensitive data, but better at hiding hacker activity while doing so. A recent white paper by research firm Frost & Sullivan discussed the risk of advanced cyber threats, noting that traditional information security ...

A recent survey of 250 senior IT decision makers in the U.K. found that, although 84 percent claimed they were concerned or very concerned about IT security breaches, 55 percent have not tested the security systems and procedures of cloud vendors. The study, conducted by IT recruitment consultancy R...

Many businesses have adopted virtualization solutions to consolidate hardware resources, particularly as the technology has evolved to enable easy provisioning. However, businesses have recently run into some challenges that stem from a proliferation of virtual machines. The first, according to a re...

Financial institutions in the United States saw a spike in cybercriminal activity earlier this year after a series of distributed-denial-of-service-attacks interrupted operations. Although DDoS attacks are primarily designed to disrupt operations, some evidence suggested that these were intended to ...