The Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study was created in conjunction with Cisco’s Annual Cybersecurity Benchmark Study, a double-blind survey completed by more than 3600 security professional in 25 countries and across all major industries. The privacy specific questions focused on a subset of nearly 3000 respondents who were familiar with the privacy processes at their organizations. Participants were asked about the makeup of their privacy teams, maturity level of their privacy processes, and the impact (if any) they experienced related to delays in the sales cycle due to customer data privacy concerns. We also analyzed responses to other questions regarding cyber events to understand which organizations had been breached in the last year and the size of any losses from these events.

Online Journey Hijacking, a client-side phenomenon where unauthorized ads are injected into consumer browsers, is a growing yet invisible problem for eCommerce sites. This issue is widespread across the web — yet the eCommerce industry has only been made aware of its existence in recent years.

From the report, “Technology has dramatically changed the online experience for consumers — and along with this their expectations. Be it for business or pleasure, digital platforms continue reshaping the way consumers interact and engage with each other, as well as with online brands. This new reality has made capturing consumer business and loyalty a bigger challenge than ever for eCommerce brands. With mobile usage higher than ever, today’s shoppers are constantly juggling their eCommerce experience with other activities. To better understand the state of contemporary consumers, we asked more than 1,300 online shoppers about their shopping habits, what online and offline distractions are competing for their attention, and what factors most influence them to embrace — or abandon — their online shopping experience. As a technology company with the mission of preserving a distraction-free online customer journey, we hope these insights help eCommerce businesses identify how to better optimize their customers’ online experience.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “As the dust settles after the 2018 holiday shopping season, online retailers and eCommerce businesses will be diving deep into the results to measure just how effectively their online promotional campaigns capitalized on the opportunity - and translated increased traffic into more revenue and improved conversion rates. Just what type of impact did the holiday season have on eCommerce brands in 2018? What days stood out amongst the pack when it came to traffic, orders, and conversion rates? Which verticals saw their KPIs rise the most? To uncover top holiday season eCommerce insights, Namogoo analyzed hundreds of millions of web sessions across regions, devices, and verticals.”

Insider threats, such as those associated with the Marriott breach, are considered one of the top concerns in IT security due to the devastating impact on business, reputation, loss of sensitive data, and significant fines. Security solutions that rely on allow lists / block lists and signature files fall far short in their attempt to mitigate this threat. Machine learning and behavioral analysis are uniquely suited to immediately identifying anomalies that indicate an insider threat before any data is lost.

This report offers insight into digital threat intelligence management.

From the report, “This year we designed our DevOps survey to reveal what successful organizations actually do as they progress on their DevOps journeys. We discovered that they experience five distinct stages of DevOps evolution, which we have shared in full detail in our 2018 State of DevOps Report. This CIO guide digests our research into a report that’s just for you. We want to help you quickly understand what successful organizations do at each stage of DevOps evolution; which practices must be established at each stage (we call these the defining practices); and how you can best support your team throughout its DevOps journey to assure continuing progress and success.”

This 2017 report has similarities to previous years, but there are three differences worth noting. First, the analysis in this year’s report extends beyond Java and includes supply chain findings for JavaScript, NuGet, Python, and Docker. Second, this year’s paper includes a stronger emphasis on the emergence of DevOps and reflects on the evolution of modern IT organizations as they seek to transform from waterfall-native to DevOps-native software development. Lastly, this year’s research delves deeper into the rapidly evolving role of regulation, legislation, and litigation with respect to open source governance and software supply chain management.

In this issue of the State of The Internet/Security report, they take a look back at some of the events they were a part of and the research the Akamai teams produced in the past 12 months. They also examine a few of the stories that formed the background in security this year.

Working with some of the world’s leading online brands, CyberInt takes a look at the fraud threats that retailers receive in the cyber world.

More than 40 executive-level representatives from primes to Tier 2 and consultants participated in an October 24th Roundtable on these topics. The roundtable was conducted under Chatham House Rules. Accordingly, this paper summarizes the discussion, with no identification of attendees.

Cybercriminals will use any and all devices available to them in order to lie, cheat and steal from you. Until they’re blocked. Then they switch to different devices, counting on your fraud prevention efforts to forget about their old devices. When that happens, they start using their old devices again. They would love for you to believe that device history isn’t important. That’s why your fraud prevention tools shouldn’t forget older devices either. It’s essential to know when a device, especially one that’s new to your business, has a history of fraud. Even if that fraud happened years ago.

“In our 2nd annual survey of IT candidates, Curo Talent® decided to look at how the views of in-house recruiters compared to the outlook of IT candidates. Naturally, there was a difference of opinion on many issues.”

In our 24-criterion evaluation of the emerging managed security services providers (MSSPs) market, we identified the 10 most significant providers, and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up to help security leaders make the right choice.

This report provides a detailed analysis of survey data that was gathered to provide research findings on best practices and impact.

This white paper discusses the principals of the GNU Public License (GPL), the risks of using GPL-licensed code, and how GPL code may be used in proprietary products while minimizing legal compliance issues.

The GDPR deadline is fast approaching, but there are still questions plaguing the IT space. What does GDPR really mean for you? Who does it really effect? Download this ebook to make sure you don’t have any lingering questions about the Global Data Protection Regulation.

This 81 page report first highlights a few trends shaping the cyber insurance market and profiles 35 vendors that are catering to cyber insurers, brokers, and reinsurers. It is based on over 60 Aite Group interviews conducted between January and June 2016 with cybersecurity vendors, insurers, brokers, actuarial consultants, attorneys, and insureds’ risk managers and information security officers.

In February 2018, Accenture Interactive commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the current and future role of the CMO in building and delivering experiences and the need for organizationwide collaboration. In July 2018, Forrester conducted 10 interviews and an online survey with 250 senior-level marketing decision makers from a range of industries to explore this topic.

An annual review and evaluation of insurance products designed to protect against the unique risks of data security for organizations.

In last year’s survey, Harvey Nash and KPMG reported how CIOs were holding a steady line in the face of global uncertainty, cutting costs and refining business processes. Whilst much of this geopolitical instability remains, this year’s report shows how CIOs are benefiting from bigger budgets and headcount growth. Indeed, more IT leaders are enjoying budget increases than we have seen in the last thirteen years of reporting.