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The one that is apparent is the cost of a cybersecurity breach is rising. A new report from IBM finds the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years, which now on average costs $3.92 million. The report also notes that companies with less than 500 employees suffered losses of more than $2.5 million on average. Data breach costs in the U.S. are on average highest at $8.19 million, more than double the worldwide average.

Campbell, Calif. (July 25, 2019) –

But as more organisations come to rely on public cloud deployments, and complexity grows, so do security risks. IT teams need not only the right tools to respond to cyber-attacks but also to identify and remediate policy violations stemming from insider threats. Without them, protecting the bottom line and corporate reputation will remain a significant challenge which could inhibit cloud adoption.

Campbell, Calif. — July 10, 2019 — Barracuda, a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, today announced the general availability of Cloud Security Guardian for Microsoft Azure. This agentless Software-as-a-Service solution provides end-to-end visibility into the security posture of public cloud workloads, ensures continuous compliance, and automates remediation of security incidents.

In the wake of additional revelations relating to the same type of Spectre and Meltdown processor flaws that were first revealed last year, it now appears there are additional variants of this same type of flaw, namely Fallout and ZombieLoad. More trouble still, cybersecurity professionals should expect to see additional variants of these flaws to be disclosed on a regular basis, says Greg Kroah-Hartman, a fellow at the Linux Foundation that in one of the maintainers of the Linux kernel.

Barracuda researchers have seen a spike in the use of modular malware since the beginning of 2019. A recent analysis of email attacks targeting Barracuda customers identified more than 150,000 unique malicious files in the first five months of the year.

A survey of 700 cybersecurity and IT professionals published this week by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an industry association committed to promote best cloud security practices, ranks the top five cloud security challenges to be proactively detecting misconfigurations and security risks, followed closely followed by lack of visibility, audit an compliance mandates, management of hybrid cloud environments, and management of multiple cloud environments.

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2019 is a guide for buyers considering email-security solutions. The detailed analysis evaluates products and services on a number of criteria, including cloud integration, deployments options, incident response, and support and customer success.

That’s according to the findings of a new study of 432 IT professionals, business executives and backup administrators released today by Barracuda Networks, the leader in cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions. The study was commissioned to celebrate World Backup Day, with the aim to examine the attitudes of EMEA organisations to backup and recovery.

The survey finds the majority of organizations planning to increase spending were mid-sized to larger companies (69%). In contrast, 46 percent of all respondents said their cybersecurity spending will remain flat or down slightly, with 62 percent of those organizations having fewer than 100 employees.