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• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Security pros urged to get ahead of incoming BlueKeep exploits

  The BlueKeep RDP vulnerability is beginning to be exploited in the wild, and security teams have no excuse for not trying to get in front of it, says Microsoft

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Ransomware authors seeking new ways to avoid being spotted

  Sector analysis from Sophos has revealed some insight into how malware authors are adapting to thwart cyber security controls

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  How to break free from traditional desktop productivity

  Over the last few years, the acceptance of cloud platforms in business has opened up opportunities for employees to work differently. We investigate

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Executive interview: Why the times are a changin’ in collaboration

  Companies are aware that the next wave of talent wants to work collaboratively, but how do you collaborate and what policies discourage collaboration?

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Windows 7 upgrade haunts health service tech vision

  Windows 7 issues at the NHS are making headlines, 15 months after the release of the review of how legacy IT was exploited by the WannaCry attack

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  The Security Interviews: Applying AI to Lego, and security

  Ann Johnson, Microsoft corporate vice-president of cyber security, is on a mission to prove that artificial intelligence holds great promise for the security sector, and she has the analogies to back it up

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Microsoft delivers Surface with benefits for enterprise IT

  It may not be headline-grabbing news, but the Surface Pro has screws – it can be taken apart and components such as disk drives can be swapped out

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Nodersok malware campaign is infecting thousands, Microsoft warns

  Thousands of Windows endpoints in the US and Europe have been infected by a new fileless malware campaign in the past few weeks

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  Aberdeen Standard Investment deploys Igel for VDI

  The investment management group is rolling out virtual desktop infrastructure globally and will use the secure Linux platform Igel to manage the VDI environment

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  Warwickshire county council deploys Microsoft cloud productivity suite

  Teams, Office 365 and other cloud-based tools are being rolled out to give council staff greater flexibility

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Google vs Microsoft: Digging into the public cloud email market duopoly

  The public cloud email sector is a veritable two-horse race, with Microsoft and Google being the ones to beat, but it is unlikely ever to become a “winner takes all” market, says Gartner

• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  Use Windows 7 end of life to update desktop productivity

  The end of support for Windows 7 should be seen as the end of an era for traditional desktop IT. So what does 21st century desktop productivity look like?

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Microsoft gets boost in SaaS revenue and pushes Teams platform

  It is still a long way behind AWS, but the Microsoft cloud is the company’s big money-maker. It is also seeing Teams establish itself as a platform

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Suspected malicious MS Office tool maker arrested

  Dutch police have arrested a man suspected of producing and selling toolkits to create malicious Microsoft Office documents

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Windows 10 to enable passwordless sign-in

  Windows 10 users will soon be able to sign in to devices without using a password to encourage the use of two-factor authentication methods to improve security