TechTarget News - Week of Feb 12, 2017
Sun Feb 12, 2017
DevOps security remains an afterthought
The promise of DevOps breaking down organisational silos has not yet materialised for security
Mon Feb 13, 2017
Intel: Enterprise trust in public cloud is on the rise, but skill shortages hinder adoption
The 2017 Intel cloud security report suggests enterprise attitudes to public cloud are softening, but a shortage of skilled security workers is holding back adoption
Mon Feb 13, 2017
End complacency and help address cyber crime threat, NCA tells business
The NCA is calling on UK businesses to take the threat of cyber crime seriously and work with law enforcement and government to help turn the tables on cyber criminals
Mon Feb 13, 2017
DCMS announces cyber clubs programme to teach 6,000 students cyber skills
The Cyber Schools Programme announced by the DCMS aims to train thousands of teenagers in cyber security skills
Mon Feb 13, 2017
Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures
Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies
Mon Feb 13, 2017
MobileIron: Corporate IT policy and mobile device security are mismatched
MobileIron report identifies a gap between security policy and the actual deployment of that policy on mobile devices
Mon Feb 13, 2017
Santander introduces voice-controlled payments
Santander has taken its voice-controlled banking initiative to the next phase, with customers now able to make payments by voice
Mon Feb 13, 2017
Ford invests in artificial intelligence startup to boost autonomous drive
Motorcar maker Ford’s software development team will work alongside Argo AI on robotic vehicle technology
Mon Feb 13, 2017
Dutch tech hub is facilitating the next Google
Amsterdam is already a leading tech hub, and is now offering support for companies in their second phase of development
Mon Feb 13, 2017
Caringo FileFly cleans data off Windows Storage Servers
Caringo FileFly powers Secondary Storage Platform that works with Microsoft DFSR and ReFS to offload passive, unstructured data from a Windows storage server.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Middle East organisations urged to prioritise cyber defence
As the Middle East IT industry continues to transform and embrace digitisation, what are the greatest threats it faces today?
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Singapore's central bank sets up analytics group
The move by The Monetary Authority of Singapore is part of larger efforts to position Singapore's financial sector for the digital economy
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Ransomware threat continues to evolve, defense needs to catch up
With the rapid expansion of the ransomware threat landscape, defenders are scrambling to find ways to fight back. RSAC 2017 dedicated a full day for a ransomware seminar.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Oracle expands cloud offerings in Australia
Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Co-op Bank up for sale now legacy shift to IBM is complete
Bank put up for sale just days after it completed a multimillion-pound migration of its legacy banking platform into an IBM datacentre
Tue Feb 14, 2017
National Cyber Security Centre officially opens for business
The NCSC is at the forefront of the UK’s defence against cyber threats to critical national infrastructure and the digital economy
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Interview: Cloud Foundry on its 2017 awareness-raising plans for open source PaaS
Cloud Foundry’s executive director, Abby Kearns, sets out the organisation’s plans to ensure that market awareness of the platform keeps pace with its rapid enterprise adoption
Tue Feb 14, 2017
HMRC rejects Gov.uk Verify
HM Revenue and Customs says it won’t be using Gov.uk Verify, which could cause difficulties for the government’s target of having 25 million Verify users by 2020
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Major DDoS attacks see huge increase, says Akamai
Akamai’s State of the Internet/Security Report for the fourth quarter of 2016 finds that distributed denial of service attacks larger than 100Gbps are rapidly increasing as more IoT devices are compromised
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Riverbed bolsters SteelHead WAN optimization appliance with SD-WAN
Riverbed cloaks its SteelHead SD-WAN optimization appliance with SteelConnect features to provide security and application acceleration.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
ONF lays out innovation roadmap for SDN and NFV
The Open Networking Foundation unveils its Open Innovation Pipeline to guide the next phase of development of software-defined and virtualised networking tech
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Nation-state cyberattacks rising, warns former NSA director
Speaking at RSA Conference 2017, former NSA Director Keith Alexander warned of increased nation-state cyberattacks and called for an overhaul of U.S. government cybersecurity.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Diablo targets flash in DIMM slots at in-memory apps
Apps such as Apache Spark need memory. Diablo has changed tack to provide flash as memory in DIMM slots that acts as cache behind regular DRAM so apps don’t have to hit disk storage
Tue Feb 14, 2017
AWS preps GDPR readiness by signing up to cloud Code of Conduct
AWS is now a member of the Association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, which means EC2 and the like need to follow certain rules
Tue Feb 14, 2017
RSA President Rohit Ghai details new cybersecurity platform at RSAC 2017
Michael Dell introduces RSA's newly appointed president, Rohit Ghai, who is set to lead the cybersecurity firm as it implements its new Business Driven Security platform.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
London software engineering salaries fall by 1.7%
Software engineering salaries in the capital bucked the trend of rising technology pay in general in 2016, according to research
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Public sector IT suppliers blast CCS over rising G-Cloud commission charges
CCS confirms commission charges on G-Cloud sales are to rise from 0.5 to 0.75% when the next iteration of the framework drops in May 2017, but suppliers fear it could harm their ability to innovate
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Ramzan advocates collaborative security in RSAC keynote
Zulfikar Ramzan opens RSA Conference 2017 by reminding enterprises that just as cyberattacks have long-tail repercussions, so too do collaborative security decisions made in business.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
Microsoft: Nation-state cyberattacks have changed the security game
Microsoft's Brad Smith spoke at RSA Conference 2017 about the effects of nation-state cyberattacks and what businesses and governments can do about them.
Tue Feb 14, 2017
RSA panel covers cryptography trends, elections and more
Panel at RSAC on cryptography trends offers views on AI's coming domination of cybersecurity, quantum computing and quantum cryptography, politics and elections and more.
Wed Feb 15, 2017
RSAC17: Cyber defence involves all levels of society, says Microsoft
Microsoft calls for a global convention on cyber security and an independent organisation to keep nation state attackers in check
Wed Feb 15, 2017
RSA17: Data manipulation next on attackers’ agenda, warns Intel Security
Data manipulation a real threat and the next corporate attack vector could be found in the home, warns Intel Security head Chris Young
Wed Feb 15, 2017
APAC enterprises have fewer high-risk cloud apps
Cisco study shows enterprises in Asia-Pacific have fewer apps that pose a significant risk to network security than those in North America and Europe
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Anti-millennial recruitment stance will widen cyber security skills gap, experts warn
Latest Global Information Security Workforce Study suggests infosec experts remain in short supply, and UK PLC’s reluctance to hire millennials means things are unlikely to improve
Wed Feb 15, 2017
UAE bank builds predictive marketing models
Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Sky tackles mobile not-spots at west London headquarters
Media and communications company Sky deploys a distributed antenna system at its west London campus to improve in-building mobile signals
Wed Feb 15, 2017
RSAC17: Infosec pros must help create business-driven security, says RSA CTO
The inability to draw connections between security details and business metrics is one of the biggest challenges facing most companies, according to RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Enterprise IT buyers shed light on server makers’ shortfalls in customer service and support
451 Research's latest Voice of the Enterprise report sees IT buyers rate server and converged infrastructure makers on their approach to customer service and support
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Deloitte readies enterprise public cloud practice with AWS and SAP
A 2,500-strong consulting practice will focus on delivering SAP Hana on Amazon Web Services for analytics to drive digital business
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Euroclear automates firewall rule management with AlgoSec
Post-trade back-office process provider has made the management of firewalls more efficient through security management software
Wed Feb 15, 2017
State-sponsored hacking needs to stop, says Congressman McCaul
Rep. Michael McCaul took a harsh stance on Russian state-sponsored hacking at RSA Conference 2017 and pushed the U.S. government to do more to stop such attacks.
Wed Feb 15, 2017
RSAC17: US politician calls for global collaboration on cyber defence
Without greater collaboration, information sharing and clear sanctions against attackers, defenders will continue to lose the war in cyber space, says US politician Michael McCaul
Wed Feb 15, 2017
ExtraHop intros Addy, machine learning as a service
ExtraHop integrates machine learning and artificial intelligence with Addy, its new machine-learning-as-a-service offering.
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Ericsson introduces first 5G network platform
As the industry gears up for Mobile World Congress, Ericsson has announced a new platform designed to help networks evolve towards 5G mobile networking
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Bruce Schneier: It's time for internet-of-things regulation
Speaking at RSA Conference 2017, security expert Bruce Schneier called for the creation of a new government agency to oversee internet-of-things regulation.
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Cohesity's converged data protection platform goes ROBO
Cohesity upgraded its product line with a virtual edition appliance for converged protection in remote offices and branch offices. It also added a new hardware appliance.
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Do IoT security risks require new legislation or will standards suffice?
In a panel discussion about current IoT security risks, experts at RSA Conference 2017 weigh government legislation options against industry self-regulation.
Wed Feb 15, 2017
Upcoming cybersecurity executive order leaves RSAC experts optimistic
Experts at RSAC 2017 discussed the upcoming cybersecurity executive order from the new presidential administration and how the NIST Framework strengthens the plan.
Thu Feb 16, 2017
RSAC17: AI could help in IoT security, says Eric Schmidt
Former Google chief says artificial intelligence could be applied in internet of things security, but the technology is still a long way from Hollywood scenarios
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Singapore’s ST Telemedia expands datacentre footprint
Additional colocation facilities will cement Singapore’s position as a regional datacentre hub
Thu Feb 16, 2017
RSAC17: More ransomware and IoT-enabled attacks on the way, warns expert
Security expert Ed Skoudis says that in 2017 organisations need to prepare for evolving ransomware and IoT-enabled attacks, as well as a combination of the two
Thu Feb 16, 2017
CIO interview: Matt Peers, Linklaters
Linklaters CIO Matt Peers is taking the firm through a complete digital transformation and making some big changes
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Too many high-risk vulnerabilities leave CISOs scrabbling to patch
Too many critical flaws are given high priority, leading to a patch overload that CISOs cannot keep up with, according to F-Secure
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Security platforms to disrupt industry, predicts Palo Alto Networks
Collaborative security platforms will enable developers to focus on innovation and force the security industry to change business models, predicts Palo Alto Networks
Thu Feb 16, 2017
NatWest launches digital lending platform to compete with fintech startups
NatWest has launched a lending platform that promises loan approval times as fast as those offered by peer-to-peer lenders
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Oracle executives claim more comprehensive reach for cloud business
At a recent customer conference in London, US-based Oracle executives gave accounts of the supplier’s cloud business as becoming at once more enterprise and more mid-market
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Brexit is a potential boost for Swedish fintech
Stockholm could be set to benefit from the UK’s exit from the European Union by attracting more fintech investment
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Cisco sales fall as traditional product sales slump
Cisco's traditional product sales such as switches are falling, but revenues in emerging products in areas such as security are on the up
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Sweden’s Kiviks Musteri turns to cloud to keep up with growth
Swedish fruit products manufacturer Kiviks Musteri plans to put further systems in the cloud as a cloud-based ERP migration nears completion
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Microsoft PCs get Brexit-fuelled price increase
Microsoft has raised the price of its Surface PCs by as much as 15% in the UK because of the falling value of the pound since the country voted to leave the EU
Thu Feb 16, 2017
RSA Conference speakers tackle tech immigration reform, travel ban
Several speakers made pro-immigration remarks at RSA Conference 2017 and called for tech immigration reform following President Trump's controversial executive order.
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Will automation define the future of network technology?
This week, bloggers look at automation as the future of network technology, weigh in on Cumulus' EVPN features and examine ExtraHop's Addy machine learning analytics.
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Q&A: Yubico brings FIDO authentication protocol to the masses
Yubico founder and CEO Stina Ehrensvard spoke with SearchSecurity at RSAC 2017 about FIDO authentication and how Google uses it to secure logins and cut costs.
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Experts debate national cybersecurity policy suggestions at RSAC 2017
Experts at RSAC 2017 discussed national cybersecurity policy suggestions for the new presidential administration, including what to do about encryption and the DHS mission.
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Find out exactly where the Docker Swarm architecture is heading
The challenge of provisioning applications across clusters remains a significant one. Docker's Mike Goelzer explains where the company is headed with Docker Swarm.
Thu Feb 16, 2017
Connected medical devices spark debate at RSA Conference session
An RSA Conference session on a new attack on connected medical devices led to a spirited debate on vulnerability disclosure and manufacturer responsibility.
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Apac companies see cyber security as key to business growth
Cyber security has enabled Asia-Pacific organisations to enter new markets and deliver services in new ways
Fri Feb 17, 2017
RSAC17: Geopolitical changes driving encryption usage, survey shows
More organisations are planning to deploy encryption in response to geopolitical changes, but confidence in organisations’ ability to secure and protect encryption is low, a survey shows
Fri Feb 17, 2017
High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case
Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
Fri Feb 17, 2017
FOI requests reveal appetite for datacentre change in London’s local councils
Research conducted by cloud service provider HyperGrid suggests IT departments in local councils are working with outdated and underperforming datacentre infrastructures
Fri Feb 17, 2017
GP practices get free Wi-Fi for patients
Nearly 1,000 GP practices will provide free Wi-Fi for patients by the end of March 2017 as part of a national programme to roll it out across the health service
Fri Feb 17, 2017
RSAC17: Former MI5 head calls on infosec community to make world safer
In a digital era, the information security community has a key role in helping to make the world a safer place, according to former MI5 boss Stella Rimington
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Amazon, Apple and Microsoft pledge to support government push for fair cloud storage use
Competition and Markets Authority confirms support of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft as it concludes compliance review into cloud storage sector
Fri Feb 17, 2017
HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology
The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Swedish capital uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to cut road congestion
Stockholm transport authorities are gaining a better understanding of road traffic through technology
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Visa, Bosch and Indiegogo debut IBM Watson IoT partnerships
At the inauguration of the Watson IoT HQ in Munich, IBM customers announced a swathe of new partnerships to bring IoT tech to market
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Gartner predicts BI market will jump 7.3% to $18.3bn in 2017
So-called “modern BI and analytics platforms” outpace traditional business intelligence, but rate will slow down
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Stemettes launches documentary about Outbox Incubator programme
Social enterprise Stemettes has produced a short film featuring its Outbox Incubator programme to highlight the importance of getting girls into science, technology, engineering and maths
Fri Feb 17, 2017
How deep learning and AI techniques accelerate domain-driven design
Is the codebase aligned with the enterprise model? Deep learning and other AI technologies are helping to align domain-driven design with the organization's business objectives.
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Q&A: Digging into darknet technology with Farsight's Andrew Lewman
At RSAC, former Tor Project CEO Andrew Lewman explains the latest research into darknet technology and how that tech continues to evolve as an attack vector.
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Microsoft Patch Tuesday February release delayed by a month
News roundup: Microsoft Patch Tuesday was canceled in February without a clear reason. Plus, APT28 is linked to new Mac malware; Lazarus targets more banks and more.
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Arista Networks' revenue rises, while rival Cisco stumbles
Arista Networks' revenue rose more than 33% on strong sales of switches and routers. Arista released results a day after Cisco reported a decline in sales of networking gear.
Fri Feb 17, 2017
Pass on the JSON, and choose binary encoding formats instead
Find out how developers can achieve significant performance boosts using new binary encoding formats as alternatives to JSON and XML.