On the opening morning of its CyberUK conference in Belfast, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert to operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) across the UK, concerning the growing threat from, and impact of, cyber attacks originating from ideologically driven Russian threat actors or hacktivists. Historically, attacks on CNI […]

Oracle’s spring update to its cloud applications suite includes automation enhancements in supply chain management and additions to its employee experience platform. Both will be announced today at Oracle CloudWorld Tour in London. Ahead of the event, Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle applications product development, briefed Computer Weekly on what he sees as […]

Mike Capone, CEO of data analytics firm Qlik, claimed a broad mission for the supplier’s data integration and visualisation software, at its customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. Sweden-founded Qlik is well known as one of the pioneers of data visualisation, along with Tableau, now part of Salesforce. It is, subject to final […]

The rapid shift to cloud services and the complexity in dealing with the a hybrid workforce have changed how modern IT leaders view network and security, and network and security leaders must investing in both application performance and security, according to the latest edition of the annual Enterprise network transformation report from Aryaka. The study from […]

The UK fintech industry has welcomed the open banking regulator’s recommendations for the next phase of open banking. The Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (JROC) has said its recommendations will ensure that open banking develops in a “safe, scalable and economically sustainable way”. To this end, the JROC – which has replaced the Open Banking Implementation […]

Public cloud storage deployments are by far the biggest storage priority for organisations in the UK and Ireland in 2023, with 32% declaring their intention to deploy it in the next 12 months. Meanwhile, 37% named disaster recovery as their top data protection-related project for 2023. That’s according to respondents to the TechTarget/Computer Weekly […]

Recent years have seen an increasing number of companies adopting cloud-based technologies, with cloud spending predicted by Gartner to climb 20.7% in 2023, approaching $600bn (£482.2bn). Such cloud adoption is due to the elasticity, agility and scalable nature offered with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), which is experiencing highest growth rate, while Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) remains the category […]

The National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) annual CyberUK cyber security conference will get underway in Belfast this week, with the theme of securing an open and resilient digital future and the emphasis firmly on collaboration within the cyber security sector, as well as between governments, industry, academia and financiers in responding effectively to cyber […]

Technology companies offering encrypted messaging services have urged the government to make urgent changes to legislation going through Parliament that threatens to undermine the privacy of encrypted communications. In an open letter, WhatsApp, Signal, Threema and other encrypted messaging services called for the UK government to rethink measures in the Online Safety Bill that […]

Users of cloud computing resources have a tendency to make the same mistakes repeatedly, with the vast majority – approximately 80% – of alerts seen by security teams triggered by a scant 5% of security rules, according to findings set out in a report compiled by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research unit. In […]