Opinion stories - Page 227

Not only is information on a company's assets available, but information about new techniques to compromise targets is for sale on the dark web.

Cyber attacks menace firms and national bodies, but ironically, the cloud sector, underpinned by tech behemoths, may thrive by offering refuge.

With high-profile firms in the headlines, does it mean that SMEs face even greater risk? And if it does, what can the smaller entities do about it?.

The lack of diversity in the technology industry is hindering progress and innovation, with only 21% of IT employees being women.

Here's how artificial intelligence and deep learning are moving from buzzwords to revenue-generating endeavours...

Miners race to solve a cryptographic puzzle, which completes the next transaction (or block) on the chain, in hopes of capturing the coin reward.

As AlphaBay vanishes, the dark web braces for upheaval, with markets jostling for supremacy or a radical shift to P2P trading.

Don't forget to scan your backups for vulnerabilities. It would be pointless transferring all your data onto a device that is always compromised.

Software audits have become even more complicated as businesses now need to track software in complex environments, like the cloud.

While the adoption of cloud office is rising, it will never be universal due to many valid reasons that include security, privacy and vendor support.

We might look back on 2017 as the year the hard disk era finally gave way to the brave new world of all-flash solid-state storage.

What do Super Bowl XLVIII, the London Exchange, and a number of New Zealand's largest City Councils have in common?.

Smart contracts within blockchain platforms have a lot to offer, but the immaturity of the technology makes them a potential vulnerability for now.

In digital times, businesses must innovate not only products but their core models—reinvention is key to outpacing agile upstarts.

No organisation regularly repaves their services or applications from a known, good state, leading to vulnerable servers for more than five months.

The best way to start a digital transformation is with projects that offer potential for more rewards and less risk.

Information security can be a noisy place. As a career security guy my experiences have given me a deep understanding of attackers & the enterprise.

Think of behaviour analytics as Iron Man and identity analytics as The Avengers and you have a powerful approach to identity access management.

According to reports from McKinsey, predictive maintenance could save global businesses an incredible $630 billion a year by 2025.

When it comes to digital business, the one thing you can count on is change, and marketers must move quickly to keep pace.