MI5 deputy director general and long-serving intelligence expert Anne Keast-Butler has been named as the next director of GCHQ, succeeding the outgoing Jeremy Fleming. Keast-Butler, who becomes the first woman to lead the UK’s signals intelligence and cyber security agency, within which sits the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will take up the post […]
Yum!, the US-based parent organisation of KFC and Pizza Hut, has written to a number of employees whose data was stolen by the undisclosed ransomware gang that attacked its systems in January 2023, resulting in the temporary closure of 300 UK outlets. Upon detecting the initial incident, the organisation’s planned response protocols swung into […]
What is a word in computing? In computer architecture, a word is a unit of data of a defined bit length that can be addressed and moved between storage and the computer processor. Usually, the defined bit length of a word is equivalent to the width of the computer’s data bus so that a word […]
What is HDTV (high-definition television)? HDTV (high-definition television) is a television display technology that provides picture quality similar to 35 mm movies with sound quality similar to that of a compact disc. Television stations and cable TV operators regularly transmit HDTV broadcasts to users with HDTV sets today. HDTV transmits using digital signals rather than […]
Cyber security models are currently focused on securing relatively static ring-fenced environments of centrally-hosted services. Organisations now face the challenge of transforming those models to manage fluid and scalable environments where their resources and data are distributed across a hybrid mesh of cloud-native and on-premises services delivered by multiple providers. This new paradigm has […]
The Post Office will pay £16.5m to extend a contract with Fujitsu after fundamental technical challenges meant its planned migration to the cloud could not be completed in time. In 2021, the Post Office extended its IT services contract with Fujitsu while it prepared to migrate IT from the supplier to another, as yet […]
Credit reporting bureau Experian is undergoing a multi-year digital transformation project that has seen it name Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider partner. The project will see Experian take a cloud-first approach to modernising its IT infrastructure and applications setup, and move its mission-critical IT platforms to AWS. The elements earmarked […]
What is HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)? HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a proprietary specification designed to ensure compatibility between video and audio devices over a single digital interface. The specification is used for consumer electronics — including high-definition and ultra-HD TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, game consoles, streaming devices such as Roku, soundbars, laptops and […]
Nataraj Nagaratnam, IBM fellow and cloud security CTO, has been with the supplier for nearly 25 years. Security has been his forte throughout this time, whether it be cloud security, hybrid cloud security or technology strategy. Nataraj’s interest in security started when he was studying for his masters and PhD. “One good, fine day, […]
Endpoint detection and response (EDR), multifactor authentication (MFA) and privileged access management (PAM) have long been the three tools most commonly required by cyber insurers when issuing policies, but a report compiled by the Cyber Risk Analytics Centre at professional services firm Marsh McLennan suggests that automated hardening techniques are more effective than traditional […]