Cisco has updated its full-stack observability platform with the latest version of Cisco Secure Application, designed to help IT departments secure development and deployment of cloud native applications Cisco said the product connects business context with security findings, bringing together application performance data with security intelligence from Cisco’s existing security products. It also offers […]
As autumn begins and the thoughts of security teams turn to mists and mellow fruitfulness, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update arrives with the surety of the turning leaves, and this month there are two actively exploited zero-days to consider, and five critically scored vulnerabilities worth attention, out of a grand total of over 60 newly […]
Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) specialist ExtraHop hopes to give security researchers and defenders a little extra help when it comes to defending against malware and botnet operations, by making its entire 16 million row domain generated by algorithm (DGA) dataset publicly available on GitHub. So-called DGAs are programs that use algorithmic generation […]
US leisure and hospitality giant MGM Resorts is battling through an IT outage after a cyber attack forced it to take multiple systems down across its properties, leaving front desk and concierge services to fall back on pen and paper, rendering slot machines on its gaming floors inoperable, and supposedly locking guests out of […]
BMW’s new factory for the electric mini in Oxford is using SAP S/4 Hana. The Mini plant in Cowley, Oxford is the first of BMW Group’s connected factories based on a digitised cloud architecture. BMW recently announced £600m investment in developing the plant to support the production of electric cars. The Mini Plant Oxford […]
Be certain about who needs access to data, the purpose the data will be put to, and that the data is of good quality. Those are among the key principles of data management put forward by Chris Gorton, senior vice-president and managing director of data management specialist Syniti, in this podcast. Gorton explains the […]
European enterprises are increasing investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovation at the fastest ever rate as they attempt to close the gap on their US-based counterparts. A global survey of 2,300 senior executives carried out by Accenture shows that generative AI dominates the tech budgets of European companies, with 91% allocating a significant […]
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In February 2022, I wrote in a Computer Weekly article about metacognition, the ability to think about thinking, remains a critical gap to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). I pointed to a 2021 paper that I co-authored where we experimented with giving AI abilities in metacognition, finding that whilst the AI was slightly […]
A slim majority of British adults would be perfectly happy for the government and its allies to break international cyber security laws and norms, and almost as many feel they would be happy to support or engage in online cyber criminal activity themselves, given the right circumstances, according to a report. The survey, conducted […]