Tag: security

April 22, 2019

Evisort, a document and contract management company, left one of its document databases unsecured, exposing customer data. The startup, founded by former Harvard and MIT students in 2016, bills itself as an artificial intelligence contract management company, which it says […]

April 4, 2019

A wave of DNS hijacking attacks that abuse Google’s cloud computing service is causing consumer routers to connect to fraudulent and potentially malicious websites and addresses, a security researcher has warned. By now, most people know that Domain Name System […]

March 29, 2019

So says The Cloud Industry Forum, which has been monitoring cloud adoption among UK businesses year-on-year since 2011. Seven years later, cloud usage has infiltrated almost every organisation in one form or another, bringing with it improved flexibility, agility, mobility […]

March 6, 2019

One thing is certain. Capitalism ensures that change is the new constant. In the early 1990s, internet pioneers Prodigy Communications and America Online connected users and changed how we communicate with each other. In 1995, Windows 95 was launched by […]

March 1, 2019

Ahead of this year’s RSA security conference, Microsoft has introduced a new cloud service designed to help customers manage their security efforts while also giving them access to its own security staff for expert customer support. Azure Sentinel is a […]

February 21, 2019

Almost two-thirds of businesses are planning to migrate an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud or are already doing so, despite many of them having concerns about moving sensitive data, security and regulatory compliance. That’s according to the […]

February 8, 2019

A survey of 100 IT decision-makers in companies with 500 or more employees conducted by NetEnrich found that 85 percent claimed either moderate or extensive production use of cloud infrastructure. What’s not surprising, and what I’ve been saying here, 80 […]

January 22, 2019

Just as no one needs to be told there are different types of clouds in the sky, no CIO needs to be told there are different types of clouds for managing your data. One cloud may be designed using best […]

December 21, 2018

You’re walking to your car from a major public cloud provider’s building that houses about 1,000 employees. You have an envelope on your windshield that looks like an invitation to a fancy wedding. Upon opening it up, you find it’s […]

December 21, 2018

While moving to the cloud is a large part of many businesses’ digital transformation efforts, some companies have yet to do so. Security concerns such as data breaches and data loss are the main reasons these businesses have held off […]