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David Laceys IT Security Blog

Information security expert David Lacey discussed the latest ideas, best practices, and business issues associated with managing security.

June 2015

In praise of the Digital Catapult
David Lacey 17 Jun 2015

I admit to being a long-standing critic of past UK government research initiatives. Having sponsored and managed several partly-funded research projects I've been disappointed with the decreasing ...

What's new in Cyber security?
David Lacey 15 Jun 2015

I missed the opening of this year's Infosecurity Europe as I was speaking in Zurich. I did however catch the end, though there was little to fire my attention. The theme was dated, the slogans on ...

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How to scale security: An inside look at how Facebook does it

Facebook director of security Aanchal Gupta sounds off on how the social media giant uses automation to scale security and ...

2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: A SearchCIO guide

The 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium was all about making good on an enterprise digital transformation strategy. Explore the ...

Speed, service, solutions are CIO priorities for Arcadis IT exec

Heading into the final stretch of his first year as CIO, Justin Wright has strong ideas about how to make IT a better partner to ...

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OneLogin security chief delivers new security model

How did cloud identity and access management vendor OneLogin rebuild its security after a breach? We ask OneLogin security chief ...

Finalized TLS 1.3 update has been published at last

The finalized TLS 1.3 update has been published after a four-year process. The new protocol promises to be faster and more secure...

How to mitigate the Efail flaws in OpenPGP and S/MIME

Efail exploits vulnerabilities in the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards to reveal the plaintext in encrypted emails. Learn more about ...

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Cisco revenues up, customers warming to new products

Cisco revenues in the last quarter rose 6% as businesses took advantage of a strong economy to refresh networks and deploy new ...

New Dell EMC 100 GbE switch tailored for east-west traffic

The latest Dell EMC 100 GbE switch is an open system aimed at service providers and large enterprises. The Z9264F is a 2RU system...

Active-active data centers key to high-availability application resilience

Enterprises dependent upon a high-availability application should investigate active-active data center designs to ensure ...

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Converged data center migration practices to avoid data loss

Refreshing data center hardware is no simple task, especially for organizations with multiple workflows. Before completing an ...

14 SIEM reports and alerts to boost security

Setting up an SIEM reporting infrastructure requires an overall knowledge of what data capture is available. With standard ...

IBM Power9 servers add reliability, reduce maintenance costs

IBM looks to grab high-end hardware market share from archrival Intel with the introduction of two Power9 servers that offer ...

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Chief data officer skills tested by AI ad blitz

A reporter's notebook from a recent MIT symposium provides insights on chief data officer needs, as the AI wave starts to hit ...

Open source database software finally gets down to business

Once used primarily in web applications, open source databases are finding a place in more mission-critical business systems -- a...

Open source RDBMS uses spurred by lower costs, cloud options

Open source technologies have become more capable alternatives to mainstream relational databases for cost-conscious users -- and...