For firms that want to optimise application delivery – especially during demand spikes – cloud bursting is an attractive option. Cloud bursting allows organisations to call on the elastic, pay-as-you-go cloud storage and compute resources to handle peaks in demand. This can help avoid capital expenditure, and is a quicker way to add capacity […]

Despite eight months of warfare, Ukraine’s IT industry remains open for business. Indeed, it is one of the only sectors in Ukraine registering growth, and with a resilient, committed and highly tech-savvy workforce, is ready and eager to work hand-in-hand with UK tech companies to address collective digital challenges. That was the message delivered […]

British government sources have refused to say if Liz Truss personally gave orders to RAF high-tech spy planes to fly at high speed over the Black Sea and head directly toward Russian defence forces near Sochi. But they have admitted to the risks they created – and that, on 29 September, a Russian Air […]

The cost-of-living crisis is already having a major impact on spending. UK retail sales decreased by 1.6% in August 2022 versus a 0.5% forecast; banks are withdrawing mortgage offers as interest rates are expected to rise by several more percentage points; and many people are left wondering how they will afford basics like heating […]

Microsoft has criticised external security researchers at threat intelligence specialist SOCRadar, accusing them of needlessly exaggerating the scope of, and potential danger arising from, the exposure of Microsoft customer data that leaked from a misconfigured Azure Blob storage instance. Microsoft was informed about the issue on 24 September, and found that the accidental misconfiguration […]

Those in the supply chain discipline have always known how much is at stake in logistics management, but the problem has really entered the public consciousness over the last few years. Especially in the UK, where uncertainty has gone from bad to worse because of the triple whammy from Brexit, the pandemic, and political […]

On 14 September 2022, the White House released Memorandum M-22-18, which requires executive departments and agencies of the US government to ensure that all companies providing them with software and services are sufficiently protected against cyber attacks. “The Executive Order 14028, Improving the nation’s cybersecurity, was released in May 2021,” says Theresa Payton, a […]

The X-Files maxim of “Trust no one” has been encapsulated in the identity authentication model of  zero-trust network access (ZTNA), where identity has to be proven and users are subject to specific constraints. However, it is debatable whether ZTNA currently goes far enough. The Covid-19 pandemic witnessed a fundamental shift in working culture, with […]

To create a secure tunnel from one point to another or to make resources invisible to outside threats may seem like scenarios that require magic; in reality, they just need network security. So begin the stories of VPNs, zero-trust security and software-defined perimeter (SDP), three varying elements of corporate cybersecurity with a shared goal […]

By What is a RAT (remote access Trojan)? A remote access Trojan (RAT) is a malware program that includes a back door for administrative control over the target computer. RATs are usually downloaded invisibly with a user-requested program — such as a game — or sent as an email attachment. Once the host system is […]