A service mesh is a layer of IT infrastructure that controls service-to-service communication over a network to enable separate parts of an application to communicate with each other. It is often used as an elegant approach to deliver communications between containers in a cloud-native architecture. But while the optimisation of data communications between applications […]

The Russian-speaking ALPHV or BlackCat ransomware operation has named Barts NHS Trust on its dark web leak site, claiming to have exfiltrated 7TB of data from the group, but almost three days after news of the incident came to light, its precise nature and circumstances remain unclear. The dark web posting was made on […]

You can tell you’ve made it the top of the competitive world of digital leadership when you become synonymous with your company’s data strategy. Data Bob – or Robert Michael, as he’s otherwise known – is group head of data at retailer DFS. He was the company’s first data chief and his efforts to […]

Deutsche Bank has completed the migration of 12 million customers from its Postbank acquisition to its own IT platform. Over the weekend, the bank completed what is known as its Unity project with the fourth wave of customers migrated from Postbank systems. There are now 19 million retail and corporate banking customers on Deutsche […]

Digital infrastructure operations face increased scrutiny by local, national, and transnational authorities on financial and operational fronts. Financial reporting requirements are being expanded to include climate disclosure requirements – reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction goals and the financial implications of risks and opportunities – in countries around the globe. Municipal, state, […]

Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO of Salesforce for UK and Ireland, announced at the supplier’s World Tour London conference that it would invest $4bn in its own UK business over the next five years. At the event, the company also unveiled some artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements to its various software-as-a-service products. In a statement, Bahrololoumi said: […]

Introducing autonomy into weapon systems will increase the unpredictability of armed conflict due to the technical inability of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to parse complex contextual factors, Lords have been told. During the latest session of the House of Lords AI weapons committee – which was set up at the end of January 2023 […]

What is a security token? A security token is a physical or wireless device that provides two-factor authentication (2FA) for users to prove their identity in a login process. It is typically used as a form of identification for physical access or as a method of computer system access. A token can be an item […]

SGN has swapped an IT managed service from Fujitsu with a five-year agreement with CGI as part of its plans to introduce features such as artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up service desk response times. The UK gas distributor worked with Japanese supplier Fujitsu over the past five years, but opted for CGI after a […]

The cyber criminal organisation behind the developing ransomware attack on the University of Manchester appears to have accessed and stolen personally identifiable information (PII) on over a million NHS patients whose data was held by the university for research purposes. According to The Independent, which was first to report the latest development, the dataset […]