As International Women’s Day comes round again, the technology industry continues to make slow incremental progress towards achieving a healthy gender balance. The 2022 Nash Squared Digital Leadership Report showed that 14% of digital leaders are women. This is far below where it should be – but nevertheless it is the highest proportion we’ve […]

The Post Office Horizon helpdesk was a toxic, rudderless and resentful environment, where racism was a daily occurrence and subpostmasters were considered incompetent or corrupt, the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal has heard. Speaking at the latest hearing in the Post Office Horizon inquiry, IT consultant Amandeep Singh, who worked at ICL […]

Investing in technology alone is not enough to bring about meaningful digital transformation, research has revealed. But if cultural and technical change are given equal weight and both align with organisational strategy, business change initiatives can boost company revenues by up to 44% in a year. These are the key findings of a survey […]

Email security company Egress finds that 92% of organisations have fallen victim to a successful phishing attack in their Microsoft 365 environments over the past year, with a further 98% of cyber security managers expressing frustration with secure email gateway (SEG) technologies. According to Egress’ Email security risks report 2023 – which investigated both […]

What is a network switch? A network switch connects devices in a network to each other, enabling them to talk by exchanging data packets. Switches can be hardware devices that manage physical networks or software-based virtual devices. A network switch operates on the data-link layer, or Layer 2, of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. […]

What is the internet of medical things (IoMT) or healthcare IoT? The internet of medical things (IoMT) is the collection of medical devices and applications that connect to healthcare information technology systems through online computer networks. Medical devices equipped with Wi-Fi enable the machine-to-machine communication that is the basis of IoMT. Examples of IoMT include […]

Nationwide Building Society has recruited Accenture to support its move to a cloud-native payments platform as real-time digital payment volumes rise. Accenture is working alongside Nationwide and account-to-account payments platform provider Form3 to move all retail payments from on-premise systems to the Form3 platform. The project, which began last year, will be completed in […]

Pro-Russian distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attackers have recently targeted Dutch hospitals, according to Z-Cert, a partnership of hospitals for digital security. It is believed to be an attack from the group Killnet in collaboration with other attackers.   The impact of such cyber incidents on hospitals is enormous. Liselotte van Boven, a physician involved in researching the impact of cyber attacks on […]

What is a print server? A print server is a software application, network device or computer that manages print requests and makes printer queue status information available to end users and network administrators. Print servers are used in both large enterprise and small or home office (SOHO) networks. Print servers accept print requests from computers, […]

Days, weeks, even months before Russia’s armies crossed the border into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, security experts were warning of an impending cyber war the likes of which the world had never seen. Talk of destructive attacks against critical targets in the West that might draw Nato into the conflict grew when, prior […]