Smart cities hold out the promise of a future where tech-driven urban spaces provide faster, smarter, greener living. But for this to work requires a high-performance digital infrastructure, not just fast internet. Smart cities need to be built with a connected infrastructure and with future proofing in mind. To find out about the data center strategies required to make this work we spoke to Bill

When Apple launched its new MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Mini systems, there was much excitement about the performance boost the M1 chips are bringing to the table. People who have been running Windows and Windows apps on Macs, however, are less happy due to the lack of support for Boot Camp, and the lack of M1-ready virtualization software from the likes of Parallels. But what about the prosp

A good deal of software development now relies on open source images, but it can be hard for businesses to know if they’re introducing security flaws by using them. Canonical – the company behind Ubuntu Linux – is addressing this by publishing the LTS (Long Term Support) Docker Image Portfolio, a curated set of secure container application images, on Docker Hub. LTS Images are built on trusted i

With more people working remotely, plus high numbers of IoT devices accessing corporate and cloud networks, traditional network security solutions struggle to cope and are blind to activity and data in cloud applications. Network threat detection and response company Vectra has launched a new range of cloud services with broader and deeper cloud capabilities to track and link accounts and data in

A new report from Guardicore and the Ponemon Institute reveals that more than 60 percent of organizations believe that legacy firewalls are ineffective in preventing damaging cyberattacks against applications, data centers, and data in the cloud. We spoke to Dave Burton, VP marketing at Guardicore to find out more. BN: The report refers to ‘legacy firewalls’ and their limitations in securing moder

The roll out of 5G will open up fast connections to millions of devices, bringing with it opportunities to transform industries and allowing for massive adoption of the IoT. But with this connectivity also comes extra risk. To address this Palo Alto Networks is launching the industry’s first 5G-native security offering combining mobile expertise with its experience in securing highly-distributed c

Launched in June of this year, the MACH Alliance (MACH standing for Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless) is a non-profit group of tech leaders advocating for a new, open and best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystem. The Alliance aims to help enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape with the belief that competitive advantage doesn’t c

Businesses are increasingly reliant on data. In the past that’s generally been in a structured form but, thanks to increasing amounts of customer information gleaned via the IoT and channels like social media, unstructured data has taken on a new importance. Yet unstructured data also introduces new risks. AI-based solutions specialist Concentric is launching a new data access governance solution

Enterprises have embraced the moving of multiple applications to the cloud using containers and are utilizing Kubernetes for orchestration. But the findings of a new report also confirm that many are inadequately securing the data stored in these new cloud-native environments. The report from cloud-native data protection specialist Zettaset shows businesses are continuing to leverage existing lega

Let’s take a look back to a time before COVID-19. Systems engineers walked the datacenter floor and managed the infrastructure on-site. A team could purchase, physically receive, and rack-and-stack new infrastructure if needed to run critical platforms on an OpEx model. For many, this former reality seems like a long lost memory. Since the beginning of the pandemic, price instability has limited p

Although ransomware has dominated 2020’s cyber threat landscape, DDoS attacks haven’t gone away. In fact the year has seen the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, peaking at 2.3 Terabytes per second. The attack was carried out by deploying hijacked CLDAP (Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) web servers and caused three days of downtime for the unnamed targeted business. This is o

Hackers have breached 7,500 organizations and are selling network access on multiple Russian hacker forums. An investigation by CyberNews.com reveals compromised networks located in the USA, Canada, and Australia which include educational, entertainment and bar industry organizations. Access via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is being sold via an auction, with the initial bid for the entire package

The Start menu has evolved hugely since it was first introduced in Windows 95. While many of the changes that have been introduced over the years have been welcomed, this is not the case for everyone. You might well be using Windows 10, but you may yearn for the Start menu that was to be found in Windows 7. There’s no need to hack your system or resort to using virtualization software to run an an