July 2014

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  IT outsourcing spending growth continues

  IT outsourcing contracts signed in Europe in the first three months of 2014 see high growth  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS)

  The O-TTPS is an open standard containing a set of guidelines that when properly adhered to have been shown to enhance the security of the global supply chain and the integrity of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) ICT products. It provides a set of ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  The identity perimeter

  Successful businesses recognise the value of open communications within and beyond their organisations. However, achieving this means that the physical and virtual perimeters that had previously defined the reach of most organisations’ IT systems ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Enabling the secure use of RFID

  UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) promises vastly improved data collection and the analysis of physical objects from consumables to patients. Before its full potential can be exploited, it is critical that security surrounding its use is ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  53% of G-Cloud spend on is on SMEs

  Just over half of G-Cloud spend is with SMEs, according to June sales figures released by the Cabinet Office  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Think customer first, not technology first

  CIOs need to be thinking about the end customer and their experience of technology, not just technology for technology's sake, said Eamonn O'Hare, ex-CFO of Virgin Media and Tesco. Talking to ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Effective print management

  More businesses are now adopting a print management strategy to tackle rising print costs, enhance document security and reduce environmental impact. Intelligent print management features such as secure document release, rules-based printing and ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Can social media giants move money around better than banks?

  I have written quite a lot about the new competitors in financial services. Large internet companies as well as social media giants are looking into how they can provide transactional financial ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Effective print security for SMBs

  Businesses of all sizes have data of value, such as employee and customer information, which must be protected. While many businesses have secured their IT infrastructure to minimise unauthorised access to confidential or sensitive data, unsecured ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  How to configure Mac OS X Server

  In the previous article in this series, we showed you how to secure a Mac using the functions built into its operating system, OS X. These functions range from simple password protection and patch management through to full-disk encryption. ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Atos revenue slips but UK growth up 3.7%

  Revenue of Atos dipped 1.9% in the first half of 2014 because of slowdown in IT orders in Europe, but UK growth was up  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  FM, IT and Data Centres

  Are Facilities and IT data centre managers implacable enemies, or is it just a need for different priorities and emphases on work that seem to get in the way? Often, Quocirca finds that an organisation has one team – facilities management (FM) –...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Underexposed risks of public Wi-Fi hotspots

  All is not always as it appears when users access public Wi-Fi networks via seemingly authentic and trustworthy providers. This article, in our Royal Holloway Information Security Thesis series seeks to raise awareness of the underexposed risks for...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Musings on datacentres

  2012 was a year when organisations had to face up to the fact that the basis of IT was beginning to change. Energy costs were rapidly escalating, new technical architectures, such as cloud computing, were coming to the fore and users were off doing ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Sleeping Android: the danger of dormant permissions

  A weakness in the permissions architecture of the Android platform means apps could gain access to functionality without a user’s knowledge or consent, leaving them open to exploitation or abuse by attackers.  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Smartself-service – a guide for buyers

  When looking for a self-service knowledge solution, it can be hard to distinguish between vendors. Most make very similar claims about the capabilities and benefits of their product. To make an informed choice, it is necessary to go beyond marketing...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Negotiating cloud contracts

  This article, drawing on sources including interviews with cloud computing providers, users and other market actors, is the first in-depth research into how cloud contracts are negotiated. In particular, we have focused on instances where users ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Isle of Man gets 4G LTE service

  Huawei teams up with local incumbent Manx Telecom to deploy the Isle of Man’s first 4G LTE service  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Virtualization Security: Protecting Virtualized Environments

  Hardening the hypervisor should really be viewed as a standard practice, much as it should be for enterprise servers of any importance. There are an incredible number of configuration options for the major platforms (ESXi, Hyper-V, and XenServer). ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Security Think Tank: Cyber security resilience: Prepare, Share, Test

  How can organisations build cyber security resilience?  Continue Reading