The health care and retail sectors are particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity risks, according to a study released this week by security ratings provider BitSight. The study examined security performance across four different sectors between April 2013 and March 2014 to find quantifiable differences.
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Security, Hybrid Cloud Present Lucrative Opportunities for Hosting Service Providers: Microsoft Study
Security could be the most lucrative cloud opportunity for web hosts over the next few years, a new report by Microsoft suggests.
Study: Enterprises Eye Automated Tiering, Private Cloud as Internal Storage Capacity Grows
October 7, 2013 — Enterprise storage capacity is more than doubling every two years and business are looking to automated tiering and private cloud storage to keep up, according to the latest Storage Study from 451 Research’s TheInfoPro service.
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Half of Total IP Traffic to Originate from Mobile Devices in 2017: Cisco Study
May 29, 2013 — Global IP traffic is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes by 2017, with nearly half of total IP traffic originating from mobile devices, according to the Cisco Virtual Networking Index Forecast.
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APWG Study Finds Phishers Increasingly Target Shared Virtual Servers
April 29, 2013 — A sharp increase in phishing attacks during the second half of 2012 are linked to a rise in phishing attacks that targeted shared virtual servers to compromise multiple domains at once, a new report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group finds.
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CloudPassage Study Finds More Big Data Apps Destined for Public Cloud Hosting in 2013
December 14, 2012 — The biggest use case for public cloud hosting is deploying external applications, according to a CloudPassage survey released on Wednesday. CloudPassage finds that big data is a key driver in 2013 for public cloud adoption, with 70 percent more people planning to use public cloud environments for temporary workload and big data next year compared to 2012.
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