May 2014

May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Are the UK's borders being compromised by legacy IT systems?

My sources suggest that the IT problems that affected UK airports and sea ports earlier this week were related to Warnings Index, the ageing system that sits at the heart of the UK's border ... Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Finding new containers for the BYOD genii

Information security is the aspect of BYOD most likely to keep IT managers awake at night - it is a greater concern than managing the devices themselves or indeed the applications they run. Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Windows kernel exploits can kill all security, says Bromium

Windows kernel exploits can disable just about every security software product, claims Bromium Labs Continue Reading

May 02, 2014 02 May'14
RBS splits problem systems to reduce IT risks

RBS has split the IT system behind its high-profile outages into three to reduce the risks of a single failure impacting operations Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Addressing security and privacy on the industrial internet

The smart grid and smart meters are part of the wider industrial internet, which will offer insight into people’s life at home. What are the security implications? Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
City University London launches data science and cyber security courses

City University London will this year begin its first post-graduate courses in data science and cybersecurity. Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Microsoft buys PaaS firm Greenbutton to improve Azure service

The software giant will integrate Greenbutton’s PaaS offerings into Azure and release it as a new cloud service within Azure later in the year Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Qualys security metrics project focuses on continuous monitoring

A security industry initiative to collect metrics to help effect change is currently focusing on continuous monitoring Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Cloud collaboration is the key to UK banks' legacy IT problem

The problem with legacy IT systems at the UK's banks is increasingly becoming an industry-wide issue.Financial services watchdog the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has recognised the scale ... Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium: A student perspective Michelle Brown

The BSCWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2014 first came to my attention when my Final Year Project supervisor suggested it to me, through an email sent originally to her. At first I was unsure of applying ... Continue Reading

May 02, 2014 02 May'14
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium: A student perspective Polina Stoyanova

I heard about BCSWomen Lovelace colloquium from a lecturer. A month before the event I had to write an essay in regards to Women in Computer Science and how are they represented and supported ... Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium: A student perspective Charlotte Godley

Last year when the Lovelace Colloquium was hosted at Nottingham, I attended as I felt it would be a good opportunity to meet other women in technology, having attended a couple in London which were ... Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium: An organiser's perspective

This year was the 7th year that we've held the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium; it's become a fixture in the women-in-tech calendar in the UK and each year we have more students returning for a second ... Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Flash storage gains a foothold in Turkey

Turkish businesses see the benefits of flash storage for high performance apps, but some think the big suppliers dominate Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Ten questions to ask a cloud supplier before moving your IT

Cloud computing has been hijacked by the IT suppliers. Let's face it people have been accessing applications via web browsers for a long time. OK strictly speaking the cloud is multitenant, pay as ... Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Tech organisations must encourage gender diversity in the workplace

Fiona Woods, head of human resources, Europe at Cognizant shares why gender diversity is imperative for a company’s survival Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Microsoft issues fix for IE zero-day flaw amid fresh attacks

Microsoft has issued an emergency security update for all versions of its Internet Explorer browser for a zero-day flaw that is being exploited in live attacks Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
LinkedIn share price dips despite strong first quarter

LinkedIn’s share price fell more than 6% despite first quarter financial results beating analysts’ estimates Continue Reading
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
UK telecoms infrastructure used to support controversial US drone operations

The UK’s telecommunications infrastructure is being used as part of a global defence network the US government uses for drone operations Continue Reading
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
FT takes data warehousing to the cloud and cuts costs by 80%

How the Financial Times beat its data warehousing woes with AWS Redshift and saved costs Continue Reading