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The promise of DevOps breaking down organisational silos has not yet materialised for security

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

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

The Cyber Schools Programme announced by the DCMS aims to train thousands of teenagers in cyber security skills

Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

MobileIron report identifies a gap between security policy and the actual deployment of that policy on mobile devices

Santander has taken its voice-controlled banking initiative to the next phase, with customers now able to make payments by voice

Motorcar maker Ford’s software development team will work alongside Argo AI on robotic vehicle technology

Amsterdam is already a leading tech hub, and is now offering support for companies in their second phase of development

Caringo FileFly powers Secondary Storage Platform that works with Microsoft DFSR and ReFS to offload passive, unstructured data from a Windows storage server.

As the Middle East IT industry continues to transform and embrace digitisation, what are the greatest threats it faces today?

The move by The Monetary Authority of Singapore is part of larger efforts to position Singapore's financial sector for the digital economy

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.

Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre

Bank put up for sale just days after it completed a multimillion-pound migration of its legacy banking platform into an IBM datacentre

The NCSC is at the forefront of the UK’s defence against cyber threats to critical national infrastructure and the digital economy

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

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

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

Riverbed cloaks its SteelHead SD-WAN optimization appliance with SteelConnect features to provide security and application acceleration.

The Open Networking Foundation unveils its Open Innovation Pipeline to guide the next phase of development of software-defined and virtualised networking tech

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.

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

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

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.

Software engineering salaries in the capital bucked the trend of rising technology pay in general in 2016, according to research

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

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft calls for a global convention on cyber security and an independent organisation to keep nation state attackers in check

Data manipulation a real threat and the next corporate attack vector could be found in the home, warns Intel Security head Chris Young

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

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

Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software

Media and communications company Sky deploys a distributed antenna system at its west London campus to improve in-building mobile signals

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

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

A 2,500-strong consulting practice will focus on delivering SAP Hana on Amazon Web Services for analytics to drive digital business

Post-trade back-office process provider has made the management of firewalls more efficient through security management software

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.

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

ExtraHop integrates machine learning and artificial intelligence with Addy, its new machine-learning-as-a-service offering.

As the industry gears up for Mobile World Congress, Ericsson has announced a new platform designed to help networks evolve towards 5G mobile networking

Speaking at RSA Conference 2017, security expert Bruce Schneier called for the creation of a new government agency to oversee internet-of-things regulation.

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.

In a panel discussion about current IoT security risks, experts at RSA Conference 2017 weigh government legislation options against industry self-regulation.

Experts at RSAC 2017 discussed the upcoming cybersecurity executive order from the new presidential administration and how the NIST Framework strengthens the plan.

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

Additional colocation facilities will cement Singapore’s position as a regional datacentre hub

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

Linklaters CIO Matt Peers is taking the firm through a complete digital transformation and making some big changes

Too many critical flaws are given high priority, leading to a patch overload that CISOs cannot keep up with, according to F-Secure

Collaborative security platforms will enable developers to focus on innovation and force the security industry to change business models, predicts Palo Alto Networks

NatWest has launched a lending platform that promises loan approval times as fast as those offered by peer-to-peer lenders

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

Stockholm could be set to benefit from the UK’s exit from the European Union by attracting more fintech investment

Cisco's traditional product sales such as switches are falling, but revenues in emerging products in areas such as security are on the up

Swedish fruit products manufacturer Kiviks Musteri plans to put further systems in the cloud as a cloud-based ERP migration nears completion

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

Several speakers made pro-immigration remarks at RSA Conference 2017 and called for tech immigration reform following President Trump's controversial executive order.

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.

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.

Experts at RSAC 2017 discussed national cybersecurity policy suggestions for the new presidential administration, including what to do about encryption and the DHS mission.

The challenge of provisioning applications across clusters remains a significant one. Docker's Mike Goelzer explains where the company is headed with Docker Swarm.

An RSA Conference session on a new attack on connected medical devices led to a spirited debate on vulnerability disclosure and manufacturer responsibility.

Cyber security has enabled Asia-Pacific organisations to enter new markets and deliver services in new ways

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

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database

Research conducted by cloud service provider HyperGrid suggests IT departments in local councils are working with outdated and underperforming datacentre infrastructures

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

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

Competition and Markets Authority confirms support of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft as it concludes compliance review into cloud storage sector

The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions

Stockholm transport authorities are gaining a better understanding of road traffic through technology

At the inauguration of the Watson IoT HQ in Munich, IBM customers announced a swathe of new partnerships to bring IoT tech to market

So-called “modern BI and analytics platforms” outpace traditional business intelligence, but rate will slow down

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Find out how developers can achieve significant performance boosts using new binary encoding formats as alternatives to JSON and XML.