Global Stories

Learning from the past to protect the future of IoT and cloud

Cyber attackers are likely to use known vulnerabilities this year despite advancements in their threats, says ForeScout.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 12th Mar 2018

Malware

Blueliv makes plea for cybercrime intelligence sharing across industries

With malware continually evolving, Blueliv says it's crucial that the 'good guys' begin to collaborate in the fight against cybercrime.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 8th Mar 2018

Data Analytics

Secondary data – the paradigm-shifting resource overlooked by businesses

Secondary data has become elevated within the business as its value is uncovered across a number of key areas.

By Chris Gondek • 5 min read • Tue, 6th Mar 2018

Unified Communications

Email: The often ignored factor in strong cybersecurity

A customer-facing organisation will receive hundreds, if not thousands of emails every day, each one containing personal identifiers.

By Steve Malone • 4 min read • Tue, 27th Feb 2018

Network Infrastructure

Dell EMC announces new digital transformation certifications

Dell EMC will be offering certifications for IT professionals to confirm knowledge and experience around digital transformation implementation.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Mon, 26th Feb 2018

Supply Chain

Cisco report finds AI & machine learning still hot topics in cybersecurity

AI & machine learning in cybersecurity prove to be hot topics amongst security professionals and they're looking to spend more on those tools.

By Sara Barker • 4 min read • Mon, 26th Feb 2018

Digital Transformation

How CIOs can implement a successful IoT strategy

Before jumping on the IoT bandwagon, CIOs need to take a step back and carefully create a viable IoT strategy.

By Brenton Smith • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Feb 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

INTERVIEW: Kao Data celebrates new London data centre and chairman

After launching a data centre campus in London and hiring a new chairman, we spoke to Kao's COO about some of the technical aspects of the facility.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Tue, 20th Feb 2018

Distributed Denial of Service

The risks of DDoS and why availability is everything

We've all experienced the feeling of frustration, or even desperation, when the online services we expect are not available when we need them.

By Tim Murphy • 4 min read • Tue, 20th Feb 2018

Malware

United States hot on heels of North Korea's Hidden Cobra malware

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is honing in on the North Korean Government's activities known as HIDDEN COBRA.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Feb 2018

Migration

AWS and SUSE expand collab to boost SAP migration to cloud

SUSE has expanded their collaboration with Amazon Web Services to further accelerate SAP migrations to Linux on AWS.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Feb 2018

Breach Prevention

Equifax ushers new CISO as breach fallout continues

Equifax has ushered in a new chief information security officer as the fallout continues from the company's massive US data breach last year.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Wed, 14th Feb 2018

Cybersecurity

Winter Olympics hacked: Was it just disruptive or something more sinister?

The Winter Olympics recently fell victim to a cyberattack which seemed to be just a disruption, but this expert says there could be more behind it.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 13th Feb 2018

Malware

Attackers unleash Lokibot malware on unpatched Windows systems

Lokibot malware targets unpatched Windows systems exploiting CVE-2017-11882; researchers urge timely updates and restricted installer access to combat threats.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Tue, 13th Feb 2018

Storage

The seven critical skills all IT teams should possess

Skillsoft's EMEA MD explains how embedding key skills within in-house IT teams can help keep an organisation's data safe and its employees productive.

By Steve Wainwright • 5 min read • Mon, 12th Feb 2018

Data Protection

AU & UK partnership creates secure open banking data system

Australians will be able to download their transactions into a 'secure cloud library' that they own and access.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Mon, 12th Feb 2018

Marketing Technologies

GitHub reveals open source project trends for 2018

Last year, 24 million people from over 200 different countries worked together on GitHub to code better and build bigger.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Mon, 12th Feb 2018

Mergers and Acquisitions

Ademco Singapore buys 60% stake in Vietnam security firm

Singapore security solutions provider Ademco is making its first foray into Vietnam after purchasing 60% of Vietnam security provider TNT Technologies.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Fri, 9th Feb 2018