When IT Meets Politics

August 2010

ID Wars: the slaughter of the not so innocents
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 28 Aug 2010

We need the governance frameworks that will prevent over-simplistic (or over-complex) technology solutions being used to once again reduce us to subjects, whose identity information (from biometric ...

Use Experian et al to improve service not just cut fraud
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 10 Aug 2010

At the same time we need to migrate the nation's databases to those who can be trusted to look after our personal data. Who do you trust less? HMC, DWP, DVLA, Google, Amazon, your ISP, the NHS, the ...

FIPR Alert: Indonesia Finds Banning Pornography Is Difficult
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 02 Aug 2010

Last month, the country's information minister, Tifatul Sembiring, said that local service providers would have to start blocking online pornography by the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which ...

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Will the next act in the ongoing evolution of IT be its last?

The evolution of IT keeps on keeping on -- for now. But as technology becomes more integral to the business, the IT department ...
Digital factory strategy needed to support omnipresent IT

Digital factories, framed as a business process re-engineering strategy for our tech-centric economy, reflect how the IT function...
MIT Sloan: Finding your digital business model

Companies may understand the threats and opportunities a digital economy presents, but research from MIT Sloan suggests many ...

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Another misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket exposes 48M records

News roundup: A misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket led to the exposure of 48 million records collected by a private data analytics ...
Experts describe how hacking back can be done right

A panel of experts at the RSA Conference all expressed support for the idea of hacking back against threat actors, but each ...
Moussouris: Bug bounty programs need to avoid jumping the shark

Bug bounty programs may seem to offer salvation at a bargain price for securing networks and systems, but Katie Moussouris offers...

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Analyst balks at blockchain distributed ledger in networking

Blockchain distributed ledger technology is untested, unproven and overly complex, making it unsuitable for networking, ...
Network-as-a-service market blossoms as demands grow

The network-as-a-service market is attracting more attention, as enterprises look for ways to outsource some of their ...
Blockchain technology use in networking? Not so fast

Blockchain technology use has little value in networking, according to one IT analyst. Analysts also examine IoT security and ...

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Guide to buying server performance monitoring software

Integration, storage and vendor support all affect whether a performance monitoring tool is right for an organization. Mull over ...
How IBM's data science team quickens users' AI projects

In this Q&A, IBM's Seth Dobrin discusses the rising user interest in machine learning and AI projects and the help inexperienced ...
IBM blockchain technology spotlights mainframes

IBM's blockchain offerings aim to ease enterprise IT concerns by combining Z system mainframe hardware with industry-specific ...

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GDPR data protection edicts make good data governance a must

The European Union's new GDPR law puts the onus on companies to ensure that their data governance and management practices enable...
GDPR rules can spur broader steps to protect sensitive data

Companies need to make compliance with GDPR's requirements on managing personal data a priority, but they should also work to ...
Data integrity protection spurs greater security spending

As hacking, ransomware and malware attacks mount, companies place big data protection and integrity among the primary reasons for...

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