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Kaspersky Lab signs strategic partnership with Civica Services for healthcare, public sector and education sectors
Kaspersky Lab has announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Civica Services. Combining products with Civica’s expertise with large healthcare, public sector and education organisations, Kaspersky Lab will grow revenues and market share in these sectors.
With offices throughout the UK, Civica Services is one of the leading providers of consulting, software and services for the public sector and works with local government, criminal justice, social housing, education, healthcare and defence, as well as regulated services including legal, pensions and utilities.
Partnering with Kaspersky Lab, Civica Services delivers the Kaspersky® Open Space Security™ to public sector organisations at up to 50% off the list price. Additionally, higher education establishments working with Civica benefit from further discounted pricing through Kaspersky Lab’s Chest listing. Civica Services also benefits from the service and support Kaspersky Lab provides to all of its partners includ... [ more ]
IT Directors unprepared for emerging Web-based attacks
An IT Director survey conducted by Secure Computing Corporation uncovers a rising concern of insider threats and widespread acknowledgement of being unprepared for emerging Web-based attacks.
When asked whether they believed insider or outsider threats posed a bigger problem to their organisation, more than 80 per cent of the 103 Directors surveyed prioritise insider threats (defined as either unintentional data leakage or deliberate data theft). Less than one in five respondents (17 per cent) feel the external threats posed by hackers are more dangerous.
This could be in part due to the fact that 37 per cent of respondents have experienced leakage of sensitive information in the past year. In line with this, internal security is at the top of IT Directors’ shopping lists when respondents were asked to rank potential future investments that included perimeter security, staff mobility and network performance.
Additional interesting survey findings include:
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