Cyber-security risks and the increasing awareness, occurrence, and impact of cyber incidents confronting corporations are a rapidly growing concern to investors, senior executives, and policy setters. Driving this concern are unprecedented corporate dependencies on digital technologies which are growing at an exponential rate. Indeed, the impact of digital technologies on today's corporations are beyond what would have imagined at the turn of the 21st century, let alone two or three decades ago. Unfortunately, determining the actual, let alone potential, cyber security risks an impact of cyber incidents confronting corporations is far from an exact science.

The proliferation of disruptive technologies, heightened sensitivity to privacy issues, a background of cyber threats, and stronger regulations have raised the bar for information security. It's time for security functions to evolve from tactical firefighter to strategic business enabler. Enterprises of all types need to take a step back, understand where their information assets are, understand how to value them, how they need to protect them, what various constituencies they need to account for and take a circumspect view of security programs.

Las compañías españolas no están preparadas para luchar contra los ciberataques, según un informe presentado por McAfee. Fernando Vega, director técnico para el sur de Europa de la empresa nos comenta sus imperesiones.

Security and privacy are top of mind today and receive significant media attention. With breaches in virtually every industry, companies are impacted in many ways. But what aspects of security and privacy are mission critical and what are not? And how do you tell the difference?

Esta investigación, llevada a cabo por la compañía de seguridad Sophos, revela que un 63 por ciento de los administradores de sistemas están preocupados porque sus empleados comparten demasiada información personal a través de los sitios de redes sociales, lo que pone su infraestructura corporativa -y los datos sensibles almacenados en ella- en riesgo.