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• Three things you may not know that DNS data can tell you

  Big data tools can help network administrators gather new insights into security and performance from DNS data  Continue Reading

• Closing the gaps in EU cyber security

  Inconsistent approaches to cyber security across Europe are undermining attempts to harmonise policy and preparedness in the EU  Continue Reading

• The Matrix is here – leveraging digital ecosystem strategies

  You don't have to take a red pill to discover the modern-day matrix, but executives need to understand the digital economic ecosystem  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Proceed with caution using IP-based collaboration tools

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Keep it simple and risk-based to secure collaboration

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Select collaboration tools carefully to keep data secure

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• How to secure the internet of things

  With the expansion of the IoT market, protecting the company's data and IP is more important than ever. Here are four ways organisations can put security at the core of the IoT value proposition  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Think twice about unlimited collaboration

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• If London wants to be a smart city it must learn how to use data

  New York City's model for using data analytics is an example of how London could become a more joined-up, efficient city  Continue Reading

• The top 10 myths about agile development

  Examining some of the most common misconceptions in the growing field of agile software development  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: No company is an island

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• Forrester: Manage business technology outcomes, not IT assets

  Why CIOs need to adopt a business technology agenda if they want to survive in the age of the customer  Continue Reading

• Know your cyber enemy inside and out

  Is there a different approach that can help stem the tide of cyber threats? Look to Sun Tzu's “Art of War”, writes Matt White  Continue Reading

• Government as a platform, or a platform for government? Which are we getting?

  Government as a platform is the latest buzzword in Whitehall - but is that really what they are going to deliver?  Continue Reading

• The rapidly changing role of the CIO

  The profile of the CIO is changing - but all executives need to understand technology  Continue Reading

• Apply data governance to maximise data insights

  How IT can apply data governance to help the business trust analytics insights and gain the most value from big data  Continue Reading

• Fix outdated working practices to solve productivity puzzle

  The Economist says the French could take Friday off and still produce more than Britons in a week. Can smarter use of technology fix this?  Continue Reading

• Why some local authorities are missing the point of open data - and what to do about it

  An attempt to create an app for parking in London highlights the difficulties and opportunities of open data for local government  Continue Reading

• Five key points on supplier profiling of your business

  Big data can do many things, but should you be concerned about the big data that is extracted or exported by suppliers of devices and applications?  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SharePoint: Why are we still hearing so much about adoption issues?

  The SharePoint business system is too important to be left to IT; the whole business need to embrace it so it's more than just shelfware  Continue Reading

• HP: Where next for the troubled Silicon Valley giant?

  Numerous management changes and acquisitions have created confusion about HP's strategy, but is it too late to bounce back?  Continue Reading

• IT is a platform for economic success and a fairer society

  Labour's Chi Onwurah, formerly shadow Cabinet Office minister for digital government, outlines the party's policies for IT and digital  Continue Reading

• The UK needs pace and scale to be a global leader

  The World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2015 saw the UK ranked eighth, up one place from 2014  Continue Reading

• Tech organisations should be centred around the business tech agenda

  The age of the customer is here and technology-fueled, customer-led disruption will continue to arrive unexpectedly  Continue Reading

• Making sense of the internet of things

  Welcome to Thingalytics, the use of real-time analytics and algorithms to guide you through the maze of fast big data  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Preparation best way to avoid awkward security audits

  What is the role of information security professionals in handling uncomfortable truths about data security from internal auditors?  Continue Reading

• Can legislation stop cyber crime?

  Rising cyber crime suggests criminal law does not deter criminals and that a better legal solution is required to prevent further rises  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Using audit reports as a communications tool

  What is the role of information security professionals in handling uncomfortable truths about data security from internal auditors?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Avoid the audit toxic cocktail of obfuscation and back-protecting

  What is the role of information security professionals in handling uncomfortable truths about data security from internal auditors?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Internal audit an essential component of data security

  What is the role of information security professionals in handling uncomfortable truths about data security from internal auditors?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Engage with auditors early to improve security

  What is the role of information security professionals in handling uncomfortable truths about data security from internal auditors?  Continue Reading

• A farmer’s view of the rural payments digital service

  A farmer and his software executive son give their views on the problems with the rural payments digital services  Continue Reading

• Investment banks recruit for rise of big data analytics

  Investment banks have been slower to embrace big data analytics than many consumer retailers, technology businesses, even retail banking  Continue Reading

• IT projects are harder than climbing Everest

  Do Everest conquerors have a special something that IT managers do not possess when it comes to successful projects?  Continue Reading

• Super-connected cities plan hailed a success, says digital minister Ed Vaizey

  Government minister Ed Vaizey writes about the roll-out of the super-connected cities initiative  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Cyber security needs to start with the simple things

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Education, process and technology key to security challenge

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Enhanced cyber security requires change in attitude

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Carbanak requires people, process and tech, but mostly people

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Carbanak attacks highlight need for tech and process review  

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: People and process remain the soft underbelly of banks

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• Does IBM have what it needs to succeed in the cloud era?

  With its history in hardware, has IBM done enough from a tech development and acquisition perspective to achieve long-term success in the cloud?  Continue Reading

• The bad theatre of the Intelligence and Security Committee

  The report of the Intelligence and Security Committee was like a piece of bad theatre  Continue Reading

• Get closer to your customers by doing the co-creation tango

  For years, IT has been in a formal dance with its customers, but in the disruptive world of co-creation, it now needs to learn to tango  Continue Reading

• Is your storage ready for the future?

  Research study looks at the challenge of building a storage infrastructure to meet the rapidly changing needs of business  Continue Reading

• The customer-centric cloud model for HR IT

  IT and HR departments are working increasingly closely with cloud suppliers to develop and improve cloud-based HR systems  Continue Reading

• Top 10 strategic execution trends for 2015

  More firms expected to follow high-performing organisations by applying a range of forward-leaning approaches to strategic execution  Continue Reading

• IT availability: the whole truth

  Some of the figures people quote for the reliability of their IT systems look ludicrously minimal  Continue Reading

• Drones – taking off or staying grounded?

  While excitement grows in anticipation of potential mass adoption of drones, the industry has to overcome hurdles in the form of regulation  Continue Reading

• Patent trolls must not be allowed to encroach on Europe

  So-called patent trolls may soon come under attack in the US as part of government-backed efforts against abusive intellectual property litigation  Continue Reading

• Justifying end-user computing investments

  Device proliferation and loss of control over at least some end-user equipment drives a need to centralise key aspects of IT delivery  Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: a proxy for storage transformation

  Software-defined storage reflects important trends that affect storage, such as increasing separation between hardware and software  Continue Reading

• Why you need smarter case management

  Business users will see myriad benefits from an emerging wave of case management applications  Continue Reading

• Drones in UK skies: an increasingly crowded regulatory airspace

  With drones becoming commonplace in the UK, the law has been required to evolve and play catch-up  Continue Reading

• Think digital, act local: transforming relationships between services and citizens

  Digitisation can help local government save money, reinvent services and recast the relationship between the citizen and the state  Continue Reading

• Big data to unlock value from the industrial internet of things

  The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is changing the way we live and work, and extracting maximum value requires a big data approach  Continue Reading

• Sony attack raises questions about how to protect internet assets

  In the light of 2014's cyber attack on Sony Pictures, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind cyber assault?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use the Sony breach to plan for the worst

  In the light of the 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind cyber assault?  Continue Reading

• Pro-European parties should unite around a UK vision for the digital single market

  The UK is the EU’s leading digital economy and home to its biggest creative sector so has most to gain and most to lose in a digital single market  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four steps to defend against cyber attack 

  Last November’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures made clear we need to be able to repel the threat from nation states as well as criminals  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Lessons to be learned from Sony breach

  In the light of November 2014’s cyber attack on Sony Pictures, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind cyber assault?  Continue Reading

• What is government as a platform and how do we achieve it?

  There are lots of discussion going on at the moment about digital “platforms”, and the impact they might have on UK public services  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Sony employee lawsuit over data breach marks watershed moment

  In the light of the cyber attack on Sony, what can every company do to ensure they are more prepared for this kind of assault?  Continue Reading

• Devices, recruitment and staff retention

  Research suggests the technology used in the workplace can play a role in staff recruitment and retention  Continue Reading

• Disrupted everything: How Google will change our world

  While Apple could be the first company to hit a $1tn valuation, Google could be first to hit a $2tn market cap. But how will it get there?  Continue Reading

• Five questions every board should ask after Sony Pictures breach

  What can the board do to avoid having to answer embarrassing questions at the next shareholder meeting?  Continue Reading

• Driving Innovation with big data

  Rather than refusing the wider use of data outside the organisation, only by opening it up to third parties can we realise its true value  Continue Reading

• From poker to business and back again – playing the game of IT

  Of the many economic patterns organisations can exploit, one of the more interesting is a cycle known as 'peace, war and wonder'  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Prepare the defences for wiper malware

  To what extent should businesses worry about destructive, computer-killing malware, and what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to prepare for computer-killing malware

  To what extent should businesses worry about computer-killing malware and what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Monitoring and response capabilities key to mitigating cyber attack

  To what extent should businesses worry about malware and what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Sony attack a reminder to protect company data

  To what extent should businesses worry about destructive, computer-killing malware?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Mitigation strategies for data-wiping malware

  How much should businesses worry about computer-killing malware? And what steps should they take to mitigate such attacks?  Continue Reading

• Turkey’s internet restrictions – a hindrance to the country’s IT ambitions?

  Legal experts examine recent changes to Turkish Internet Law and the potential impact on the country’s IT business environment  Continue Reading

• A blueprint for taking back control of email as a communication channel 

  A global blueprint for combating fraudulent email and taking back control of email as a communication channel  Continue Reading

• The internet of things: a second digital revolution worth trillions

  The government’s chief scientific adviser has released his long-awaited review on the internet of things  Continue Reading

• The legal issues facing UK businesses from wearable technology

  It is inevitable that wearable technology will be used more frequently in the workplace - but what are the legal considerations?  Continue Reading

• US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying

  Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying  Continue Reading

• The cyber security outlook for 2015

  The cyber security landscape will evolve rapidly and attacks will increase in number and sophistication, from a wider range of sources  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Data security basics for SMEs

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Making SME information security affordable

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Let’s get digital on the electoral curriculum for all our politicians

  More politicians need to understand how changing the business model of government through digital methods can help UK plc's bottom line  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to make Cyber Essentials work for SME security

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SME security on a shoestring budget

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• A practical framework for digital public service delivery

  There is a tension between governments’ need to be more flexible and agile, and the discipline to use standard platforms and open architecture  Continue Reading

• Byte Night 2014 – success brings no rest

  This year’s Byte Night, the IT industry’s charity sleep-out, was the 17th annual fundraiser for Action for Children - and donations are already over £1m  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SME security questions to consider

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SMEs should put information and people at heart of security strategy

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Balancing agility and efficiency: Open architecture and platforms in government

  Increased flexibility in delivery models must be balanced with the architectural discipline to re-use, share, and consume common components  Continue Reading

• Simplicity as a digital differentiator

  This autumn, it seems that mobile payments are finally taking off  Continue Reading

• From service to strategy: the IT project management journey

  Evolving technology is creating opportunities for the IT project manager to move away from firefighting and towards influencing business strategy  Continue Reading

• The five trends shaping the future of work

  If there’s one thing that we can all agree on it’s that the world of work is changing…quickly.  Continue Reading

• Why excluding IT in M&A planning is a recipe for failure

  More than 60% of acquisitions fail to meet their goals within the planned timeframe  Continue Reading

• A phisher’s paradise

  Email is one of the earliest services created on the internet and, arguably, remains the most important  Continue Reading

• What businesses can learn from Buzzfeed’s success

  Buzzfeed has raised $50 million and is planning to use it to offer more content, expand its video production unit and open more offices  Continue Reading

• Why Twitter is the top tool for IT professionals

  As an IT professional you can be forgiven for thinking that LinkedIn is the only space to profile raise online. But consider Twitter  Continue Reading

• Time for DevOps to get out of the weeds

  Software and service providers face a battle to deliver new products, features and capabilities faster than ever  Continue Reading

• Exploring new business models for digital public service delivery

  Many public sector organisations appear overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the changes in public service delivery that they face  Continue Reading

• Germany and the UK - Europe’s technology pioneers

  Stephen Georgiadis, managing director at investment bank Altium, explores the thriving technology sectors in the UK and Germany  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use vulnerability management for Shellshock

  What is the best way to expand identity and access management to third-party service providers to ensure data security?  Continue Reading