How to optimise cloud security without budget blowout
With Gartner forecasting another 20% jump in public cloud services spending and a 7% rise in overall IT spending for 2024, keeping the lid on…
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Seven ways to be sure you can restore from backup
A disaster recovery plan is only effective if you can restore data. But despite the growing risks – especially from ransomware – not all organisations…
IR35 reforms: Incoming legislative tweak could reignite contracting market, experts claim
There are hopes a that long-awaited legislative tweak to the IR35 off-payroll working rules, due to come into force from 6 April 2024, could breathe…
Datacentre outages are happening less often and becoming less severe
The frequency and severity of datacentre-related outages are going down, according to resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute. The organisation’s sixth annual outage analysis report says the…
Europol offers law enforcement agencies data on Europe’s most threatening crime networks
The European policy agency, Europol, is to offer law enforcement agencies access to a “unique dataset” about the operations of the most threatening organised crime…
Environment Agency dumps Fujitsu as Post Office scandal takes its toll
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has ended Fujitsu’s role in providing a flood warning system to the UK, two months after…
Changes needed for SOCs and CSIRTs, claims Dutch research institute
Extensive automation of cyber security operations could become a game-changer, and the concept of playbook-driven security automation is advancing rapidly. Cyber attacks are becoming more…
Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
Education bodies and charities are facing massive increases in VMware licensing fees after the virtualisation supplier’s new owner Broadcom withdrew a programme offering generous discounts…
AWS cuts several hundred jobs to tackle ‘inefficiency’ as customer cloud cost-cutting continues
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made another round of job cuts, with several hundred tech and sales staff understood to be affected, according to media…
Obituary: Professor Ross Anderson, pioneer in security engineering and campaigner
Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, and a fearsome campaigner for digital…
UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers
UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and beyond similar commitments recently made…
Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets
The latest research from Boomi, conducted by Forrester, has reported that IT leaders expect their cloud costs will exceed budgets. The analyst firm has forecast that…