Accenture and Microsoft claim to have jointly completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods space on behalf of Unilever. The 18-month project has seen the consumer goods giant transition into a cloud-only enterprise, with the bulk of its off-premise estate now being run on the Microsoft Azure […]
Executing essential cyber security operations tasks during the threat hunting process is an increasingly challenging proposition to the vast majority of organisations, with 93% of those polled for a Sophos report saying they find basic security operations a chore. In the report, The state of cybersecurity 2023: The business impact of adversaries on defenders, […]
Tackling the climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time. There is a need for a collaborative and inclusive approach to restoring our planet and protecting our future – and it is clear this topic needs to be on every boardroom agenda. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance is now central […]
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To improve IT energy efficiency and sustainability, IT leaders are often advised to keep hardware in use for as long as possible. This is because a significant proportion of the hardware’s lifetime carbon footprint is consumed prior to onsite deployment. Logically, extending the life of hardware reduces its lifetime carbon footprint, but according to […]
About 80 UK bank branch closures have been announced in the past week, with Lloyds and NatWest banks joining Barclays in shuttering high street operations. All three banks cited the migration of customers to digital channels as the reason for closing their physical presence. A Lloyds Bank spokesperson said: “Our customers are increasingly using […]
A major IT outage at outsourcer Capita that began on Friday 31 March has been confirmed as the result of a cyber attack of a currently undisclosed nature. The incident downed some customer-facing services and, given the nature of Capita’s business – the organisation has billions of pounds of public sector contracts – sparked […]
The UK’s Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) has warned of a mounting Russia-backed disinformation campaign targeting Arabic speakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), spreading propaganda and false narratives to win over hearts and minds in its war on Ukraine. The CIR conducted extensive open source research, social media and analysis and […]
Ukraine’s national Cyber Police unit has taken down a major cyber criminal operation that defrauded people across Europe out of over UAH 160m (£3.5m) in a major phishing operation, making two arrests and seizing assets across the country. The Ukrainians said their operation, which was conducted alongside the main investigations department of the National […]
The distance between digital and physical worlds will “collapse” over the next 10 years, with the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) accelerating change, according to Accenture’s latest report. A study of nearly 5,000 senior executives across the globe, part of Accenture’s technology vision report, When atoms meet bits: The foundations of our new […]