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The New Norm Still Means The Old Norm When It Comes To Exchange Vulnerabilities
Broadband Testing 10 Mar 2021Some things in IT never change and one is exposing vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s armoury, not least as has recently been reported, Microsoft Exchange. Oh, how the hackers love Exchange… So, at the ...
When IT Meets Politics
Making sense of the changing UK Cyber Policing and Skills Scene
Winsafe Ltd 04 Mar 2021There is an urgent need to make rapid use of the trusted partner programmes of the new Cyber Resilience Centres to help business of all sizes (and charities, schools, reputable training providers ...
Networks Generation
My Question Answered: Neteventing (not not eventing) In Cyberspace...
Broadband Testing 21 Dec 2020My fine friends at Netevents have continued to battle the global lockdown elements (and we now know in England that the words "lockdown" and "tier" mean the same thing - who would have guessed?) ...
Let us go back in time to 2019 – a time when we could actually attend IT events in a physical way. There I am, on the top level of a stand, having a coffee and scanning the hall, seeing “me too” ...
After the best part of two decades of gradual change in the world of the networking infrastructure, WiFi and mobile notwithstanding, the past few years have seen more upheaval than at any time ...
Networks Generation
SASE Is Not Just A Sassy Fashion – It’s Here To Stay So Convert That Attic Now
Broadband Testing 21 Sep 2020Earlier in the year, in this space I talked about SASE – Secure Access Service Edge – pronounced “sassy” as being one of the most relevant new Gartner definitions to explore and understand. And I ...
Networks Generation
Homeworking - the new norm - is there any other option...
Broadband Testing 05 May 2020In the last blog, I touched on the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the obvious fallout here is the massive increase in home/remote working, something I’ve been practicing since 1989 – ...
Networks Generation
SD-WAN; One Way To Partly Consolidate The Complex Puzzle That Is Contemporary IT
Broadband Testing 05 May 2020I was recently sent an article by my PR mate Hannah from one of their clients, Versa – a company I’ve met up with and they talk a lot of common sense, far more than their er, so-called president… ...
Eyes on APAC
Top four considerations when securing the multi-cloud environment
TechTarget 22 Aug 2019This is a guest post by Stephen Dane, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and Greater China We live in a multi-cloud world. A world where a multitude of offerings from ...
With eight days until the UK's scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world ...
Networks Generation
Scoop! Symantec Acquisition Makes Sense Of Software Defined Perimeter Security...
Broadband Testing 12 Feb 2019OK - so that's probably not the perfect headline to be announced by anyone who whistles through their teeth... Been having some interesting conversations recently around the idea of zero trust ...
Two and a bit years ago – I should remember, it was on my birthday! – I was presenting a panel debate on the latest Cybersecurity deterrents. With four vendors and two consultants on the panel, it ...
Ah – tomorrow – the dreaded Black Friday, yet another unwanted import from Trumpland. But, JASK – already previously subjected here to the blogging treatment – has some security advice to offer as ...
You want people to access the content on your web sites. However, increasingly your visitors will not be people, but bots web scraping data with bad intent. Bot activity can be controlled and, when ...
The addition of a risk engine to Nok Nok’s FIDO-driven Authentication Server further strengthens the way web service providers can authenticate the consumers they transact with.