It’s tempting to view application security as the domain of the IT security team, but this is too narrow for today’s organisation, not least because any vulnerabilities that are exploited are likely to cause disruption across several business operations. In contrast, an integrated risk management philosophy and DevSecOps approach views risk from an enterprise […]

One of the most important activities to perform in the course of preparing business continuity and technology disaster recovery plans is the business impact analysis. A business impact analysis (BIA) identifies and analyzes business processes and activities to determine the impact on an organization if it cannot perform those activities due to disaster or […]

Tuesday 19 July 2022 was the hottest day ever recorded in the UK, peaking at an unprecedented 40.3ºC in Coningsby, Lincolnshire. Reports of datacentre cooling system failures at Google and Oracle swiftly followed. But while hot weather exacerbates operational challenges, datacentres worldwide have been designed for locations that regularly experience much more extreme conditions, […]

Five senior figures from organisations championing the growth of the UK’s regional tech hubs want the next prime minister to address the “postcode lottery” that sees some startups miss out on vital funding and support because they are not based in London. The Conservative leadership campaign is in its final stages, with Liz Truss […]

Google has added a strand to its stable of vulnerability rewards programmes (VRPs) with the launch of a dedicated open source software (OSS) track that will reward hackers who disclose bugs in Google’s open source projects. Its existing VRP programmes date back to 2010 and have collectively rewarded over 13,000 submissions with pay-outs of […]

IBM and VMware are taking their long-standing technology partnership to the next level, with a commitment to jointly create and bring to market more industry-specific products and services to help enterprises get more value from their hybrid cloud deployments. The pair are long-time collaborators, having worked together for more than two decades, culminating in […]

Norway has increased its digital defence spending to buttress the country’s critical IT infrastructure against a heightened risk of state-sponsored cyber attacks from Russia. The elevated threat level, which follows an uptick in cyber attacks and updated security situational assessments, is linked to Norway’s military and trade support for Ukraine. Russia’s ongoing invasion of […]

Although some NHS bodies have recovered the services that were affected by the 4 August ransomware attack on the systems of software supplier Advanced, multiple products remain offline and are likely to take much longer than hoped to be restored, leaving many organisations reliant on pen and paper-based systems, to the detriment of patient […]

Like most countries, Norway has data privacy laws that go beyond the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For example, there are laws on credit referencing and on camera surveillance in an employee context; there are laws on employers’ access to employee work files and employee work emails; and there are laws on data collection […]

The latest McKinsey Tech Trends 2022 outlook report notes that the biggest uncertainty facing quantum technologies is the time-frame in which error-corrected quantum computers will be developed. Despite research advances in the past few years, McKinsey’s research reports that quantum technologies remain nascent and have garnered less attention than more mature technologies. But despite […]