Cyber Security Cloud Launches WafCharm on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has joined the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) Cyber Accelerator programme that seeks to find and develop UK startups that can help boost the country’s security. This is the NCSC’s seventh accelerator programme and it will run from January to March 2021. SEE MORE GCHQ launches cyber security competition SEE MORE What is cyber security? SEE MORE AI and dark web startups added t

‘Digital transformation’ is one of those phrases you may dismiss as business jargon, but it’s so much more than that. It can play a crucial role in evolving and growing your business. Most organisations will have gone through some sort of digital transformation in their lifetime. The right technology is often key to staying competitive, and during this challenging and uncertain year, adding digit

Zoom has announced plans to extend its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), selecting it as its preferred cloud provider. The announcement follows that Zoom would be shifting a portion of its cloud infrastructure to Oracle Cloud due to an unprecedented surge in new users following the announcement of lockdown restrictions earlier this year. Announced in late April, the deal saw Or

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot-button topic in business IT for the last several years. Advancements in fields like deep learning and neural networks have made it easier than ever to commercialise AI without needing three years and a team of MIT lab scientists to train a machine learning model, and analysts have been busily predicting the dawn of a new AI-enabled age. We’ve extensively

Two surveys among SAP UK customers indicate trouble ahead as skill shortage bites Den Howlett Tue, 11/24/2020 - 18:27 Summary: Two surveys provide insight into how an already difficult environment is made more challenging. (via SAP) Last

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

One of the key tenets of having good security is reducing how attackable your system is. This is what we call an attack surface a system needs as few attack surfaces as possible, and as small as possible, to minimize any potential unwarranted intrusion. Beyond that, any additional security to detect and protect is vital. Both hardware and software can be used for that layer of additional security

Enhanced network security for AWS virtual private cloud – while Microsoft previews Azure Firewall Premium Updated AWS has announced Network Firewall, a new service drawing on the open-source Suricata project.…

Today, Microsoft alongside our biggest silicon partners are announcing a new vision for Windows security to help ensure our customers are protected today and in the future. In collaboration with leading silicon partners AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., we are announcing the Microsoft Pluton security processor. This chip-to-cloud security technology, pioneered in Xbox and Azure Sphere,