Although networks, systems, and cyber security have come on in leaps and bounds, the fundamental theories of access control and the recent addition of identity to it (IAM) hasn’t really moved on from the 60s and 70s. Things like mandatory, discretionary, and role-based access control still sit at the heart of modern technologies such […]

The UK Cyber Security Council has launched the first phase of a certification mapping tool designed to help developing cyber professionals map all available security certifications onto 16 previously identified specialisms – which are collectively based on the Knowledge Areas contained in the Cyber Body of Knowledge (CyBOK). At launch, it includes at least […]

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 2 May 2023 The ethics of military AI Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, as the defence sector looks into using artificial intelligence to create autonomous weapons, we examine the risks and ethics of military AI. Amazon Web Services is under […]

The TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities 2023 survey found that 41% of IT decision-makers expect to increase their IT spending this year. While there is a lot of economic uncertainty, technology is not an area where companies are looking to reduce budgets. The survey of 156 technology decision-makers from the UK and Ireland reported that […]

In this podcast Shawn Rosemarin, vice-president of customer engineering in research and development at Pure Storage, argues that spinning disk hard drives (HDDs) will face commercial extinction in five years’ time. We talk about pressures on data storage from rising energy costs as well as rapidly increasing volumes of data. Rosemarin also talks about […]

With days to go until the coronation of King Charles III, cyber fraudsters are seeking to capitalise on a surge in public interest, according to researchers at Kaspersky, who have uncovered multiple fake websites posing as official outlets selling commemorative items such as coins, mugs, plates and other coronation memorabilia. Kaspersky said scammers and […]

What is a web application firewall (WAF)? A web application firewall (WAF) is a firewall that monitors, filters and blocks Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) traffic as it travels to and from a website or web application. A WAF can be network based, host based or cloud based. It is often deployed through a reverse proxy […]

In 2019, Amazon discontinued its physical Dash button, a gadget that allowed customers to reorder products at the push of a button. But this idea of automatic replenishment is set to make a comeback – except, according to Gartner fellow Mark Raskino, it is likely a machine will be doing the ordering and replenishment automatically […]

The government is playing a high-stakes game of chicken with technology companies by being “intentionally ambiguous” about the impact legislation going through Parliament that could undermine end-to-end encryption, a peer has claimed. Liberal peer Richard Allan told the House of Lords yesterday that the government was playing a “psychic war” with technology companies in […]

The annual revenue growth rate for Amazon’s cloud arm is continuing to slow, as enterprises look for ways to optimise the costs involved in running their IT estates off-premise, as evidenced by the e-commerce giant’s first-quarter results for 2023. The revenue generated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the quarter covering the three months […]