Making and keeping a company’s IT infrastructure safe and secure from unauthorised intrusions or malicious actions has always been challenging. With the increased use of cloud computing, coupled with a need to keep developing new functions at an ever-increasing pace through the use of agile technologies, maintaining good security has become even more complex.  […]

To have created the position of vice-president of customer trust yourself just weeks before your organisation becomes the focus of a major cyber security incident demonstrates the kind of prescience that an end-of-the-pier fortune teller can only dream of. But that is exactly what happened to Ben King, who after a two-year stint running […]

At the turn of the century, an in-orbit satellite would have cost more than $17m. These same capabilities can now be put into the same orbit for $200,000.  Satellites rotate around a gravitational body – such as the Earth – at a distance proportional to their speed, but the orbit may not be circular, […]

One of the key benefits of the cloud is its flexible, or “elastic”, nature. Organisations can increase compute resources and storage capacity when they need it with little more than a web browser and a credit card. And, if needs change, they can reduce capacity – and cost – almost as easily. This, however, […]

When Jane Sibley’s mother began losing track of her finances due to dementia, she set her mind to finding a way for her mother to retain her independence while protecting her money. With her father in a nursing home, her mother began to really struggle to understand everyday finances. Sibley said her mother was […]

The public cloud market has seen huge developments over the past decade, with the Covid pandemic being an important accelerator. Cloud services have become more reliable, and are currently used by large numbers of citizens and businesses. The security of public cloud services has increased, and the large-scale deployment of updates and patches makes […]

Structured vs unstructured data – it’s a common way of categorising things. But it’s not quite that simple. Although structured data is easy to grasp, the world of unstructured data and its transformation to more easily understandable, usable and analysable semi-structured data, is less simple. In this article, we look at structured data, unstructured […]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will review the IR35 off-payroll working legislation in response to the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) claims there are “structural problems” that need addressing in terms of how the tax avoidance rules work in the public sector. Several months have passed since the PAC published its damning report on the fallout […]

It is a long-held belief that security needs to become more prominent in the development lifecycle. Instilling this belief in the developer community, however, has proven to be rather challenging. Work has been ongoing from different angles to achieve the goal of secure development, but we still seem to have some way to go […]

By What is a plotter? A plotter is a printer that interprets commands from a computer to make line drawings on paper with one or more automated pens. Unlike a regular printer, a plotter can draw continuous point-to-point lines directly from vector graphic files or commands. Types of plotters include the following: Drum plotters, which […]