Opinion

Opinion

• Is the tide going out for transatlantic data flows?

  Businesses face new uncertainty over their ability to share data with the US, as Europe’s highest court reassesses the legality of the EU’s model data-sharing contracts  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics may not be for everyone

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics requires talent and experience

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• Don’t complain about tech giants paying out to shareholders – it’s how innovation begins

  Critics of publicly quoted technology giants say they should invest profits before paying out to shareholders – but that would stifle innovation elsewhere  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security analytics needs serious resources

  What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?  Continue Reading

• How and why to conduct a cyber threat and risk analysis

  An ethical hacker’s insights into how and why organisations should conduct a cyber threat and risk analysis based on nine years’ experience conducting penetration tests for hundreds of organisations  Continue Reading

• GDPR for the CIO: Data protection is about more than GDPR compliance

  If you approach GDPR as if compliance is all that matters, then you're bound to fail – data protection should be at the heart of business strategy  Continue Reading

• Passive optical LAN: When network speed, bandwidth and security matter

  Copper-based local area networks are increasingly unfit for purpose in a digital enterprise, but passive optical LANs may be a solution. Tech evangelist Paul Ryan, European chair of the Association of Passive Optical LAN, explains why  Continue Reading

• How to make the right technology choice

  Organisations need digital technology, but how do you decide which is the best technology for you? The answer is not to make one big decision, but many small ones. Thinking about technology, behaviour and data will help you find the right answers  Continue Reading

• More hospitals in APAC adopting IT to bolster patient care

  Healthcare providers in the APAC region are looking to the cloud and big data analytics to enhance services and lower cost  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Cyber resilience cheaper than attack recovery

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• The digital economy is making us poorer - but that can't be right

  Use of WhatsApp as an example of productivity growth and economic measures tells us we're worse off. Are we therefore measuring the numbers wrongly?  Continue Reading

• The children of the digital revolution

  Digital professionals are emerging as the source of expertise within the agile enterprise. They understand how to use digital technologies, starting small then building big  Continue Reading

• How technology is disrupting the travel market

  Travel apps and online booking services that make it easy to book air tickets and customise travel plans are disrupting the travel market  Continue Reading

• Legal hurdles cloud Max Schrems complaint over US spying

  The Irish High Court in Dublin has embarked on a long hearing into the legality of standard contractual clauses. It is a sideshow from the real issue – the legality of US surveillance in the UK and Ireland  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Four simple ways of blocking cyber attackers

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Six ways to boost cyber resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Strategies for surviving a cyber attack

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Patching, backup and access control key to resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Resilience means preparing for unpreventable cyber threats

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Look to frameworks, guidance and legislation to boost resilience

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are robust/resilient?  Continue Reading

• The NIS Directive: the implications for UK technology businesses

  With the European Union NIS Directive to be implemented into UK law in May 2018, it is important for technology companies to ascertain if and how they will be affected  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: No one-size-fits-all security solution

  What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are robust/resilient?  Continue Reading

• The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences

  Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules  Continue Reading

• Strategy in business and learning to map – should you take the blue pill or the red pill?

  Devising business strategy means more than gut feel or copying others – the technique of mapping offers a better way to competitive advantage  Continue Reading

• The Google memo on diversity should be a learning opportunity

  Google's knee-jerk reaction did not tackle the root cause of the controversial employee memo  Continue Reading

• The Data Protection Bill is about securing UK data leadership

  The UK's new data protection legislation is vital to a successful Brexit and for continued UK leadership in technology  Continue Reading

• Unleashing digital talent for fun and profit

  With all the talk of data as the ‘new oil’, organisations can easily forget that talent – people – are the heart of delivering digital change  Continue Reading

• How creative and innovative can technology made in China be?

  China's IT industry is becoming more Silicon Valley-like and, as a result, more attractive to the CIOs of western enterprises  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use a combination of approaches to create cyber safe work environments

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five security controls to keep employees out of cyber firing line

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Use the work environment to educate on cyber security

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Are employees cyber pawns or cyber heroes?

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Employees should only have to worry about social engineering

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Is a ‘cyber-safe working environment’ a reasonable target?

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Donald Trump, the iPhone, and creating value in technology manufacturing

  The US president’s desire for Apple to build iPhones in the US misses the point – in an international sector such as tech, the real value is not in manufacturing finished goods  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Employees are in the cyber attack firing line, so educate them well

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: People are part of security, but should not be key element

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• IoT is good news for hackers

  Technology companies, governments and the insurance industry need to band together to counter the mounting cyber threats from the internet of things  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Security is a shared responsibility

  What are the best types of security controls organisations should be using to ensure a safe working environment for employees?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Avoiding the blame game

  What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?  Continue Reading

• Digital takes aim at the professions – disrupting doctors, lawyers, academics and accountants

  Traditional professions will be the next to see significant change – and competition – as digital technology introduces new ways of working  Continue Reading

• The challenge of our era - digital transformation at Allianz

  The insurance firm wants to become "digital by default" and its CIO explains the vital role DevOps and cloud play in its change programme  Continue Reading

• Criminal law: Are Twitter threats taken seriously?

  As threats of violence become increasingly common online, law enforcement is taking stronger action against the perpetrators  Continue Reading

• The digital revolution: push or pull?

  The “digital revolution” has parallels with the 1889 Land Rush in Oklahoma. Some succeeded, some failed and others wished they had never set off on the journey  Continue Reading

• Industry standards: Paving the way for autonomous vehicles

  The car industry needs to agree open standards to allow connected cars and autonomous vehicles to communicate. The bIoTope project is one initiative that could lead the way to agreement  Continue Reading

• Let’s have some more straight talking on AI and robotics

  How do you ensure artificial intelligence grows with your business and does not turn into an assortment of technologies that may be fantastic but don’t integrate or scale well?  Continue Reading

• Roam like at Home will prompt European telco consolidation

  Mobile users are understandably looking forward to an era of low phone costs now they can roam freely around the European Union, but it is very possible that they will be disappointed  Continue Reading

• Why GDPR is so relevant to the business

  The GDPR is not only relevant to CISOs and DPOs, and has a massive impact on businesses  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Five things businesses can do to protect from cyber attack

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Why now is the time to appoint a chief agility officer

  Companies need to innovate and find new ways of getting products to the market more quickly. Appointing a chief agility officer to the board will help  Continue Reading

• How the iPhone shows the value of innovation in a capitalist economy

  Ten years of watching the iPhone transform markets around the world demonstrates the economic value of technology innovation  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Nine key elements to an effective patching regime

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• The second coming of private cloud: Righting the wrongs of previous deployments

  The first generation of private cloud failed to hit the mark with enterprises, but things have improved  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Focus on high risk by automating low-risk patching

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Patching is vital and essentially a risk management exercise

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Can low-cost security defeat malware?

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Key coping strategies for effective patch management

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Apply risk-based approach to patch management

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Strategise, prioritise, automate and use cloud to improve patching

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Why users don't always know what they need

  The economic concept of revealed preference can often tell IT managers more about what their users want than users themselves  Continue Reading

• One year on and one week in - what does Brexit mean for tech?

  A good Brexit deal for the UK will rely on getting a good deal for the UK tech sector  Continue Reading

• Energy and healthcare primed for blockchain disruption

  Blockchain applications are upending traditional industries, with startup activity expected to ramp up in years to come  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Ad hoc patching is inadequate

  How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?  Continue Reading

• Architecting the digital enterprise

  A survey of almost 4,500 IT leaders in 90 countries shows that the fastest-growing area of demand in IT this year is for enterprise architects. It is not a skills shortage, but an adoption lag  Continue Reading

• GDPR: Five myths you will encounter on your compliance journey

  The General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in May 2018. We explore common myths surrounding GDPR  Continue Reading

• Managed crowdsourcing model: Another ‘made in China’ idea

  Chinese suppliers are using managed crowdsourcing to help them provide high-volume services to their customers  Continue Reading

• Rethink risk through the lens of antifragility

  Antifragility is an exciting alternative that fuses value and risk, and CIOs and IT executives are well positioned to help  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Scan, educate and back up to block email threats

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Equip employees to guard against malicious attachments

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Don’t blame employees – give them secure working environments

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Key things to consider to block malicious email attachments

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• In an age of uncertainty, now is the time to rethink your outsourcing strategy

  Brexit and Trump are not only creating challenges but also opportunities in the outsourcing sector, and outsourcing deals will need to be flexible to exploit them  Continue Reading

• Understanding the economic value of your personal data

  Your personal data is worthless – it's only when it's processed by the Facebooks or Googles of this world that it has business value  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Employees are one of the greatest defences

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Minimise malware risks through education, process and technology

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• The growing influence of the CIO

  The role of IT leaders has changed radically over the past decade. Today, digital technology is bringing CIOs new opportunities, higher budgets and the chance to make a strategic difference  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: User education key to blocking email-borne malware

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: 10 control areas to mitigate against malware attacks

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• How can CIOs drive innovation?

  Three steps CIOs can take to help them take the lead in driving innovation in their organisations.  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Malware is sneaky

  What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?  Continue Reading

• The UK’s new mayors must think digital

  The election of new mayors in devolved regions offers an opportunity to advance digital transformation of local public services  Continue Reading

• South Koreans and Australians keen to bid farewell to paper money

  The two countries are expected to lead the Asia-Pacific region in mobile payments by 2030  Continue Reading

• Open source for hybrid cloud success: Is it an open and shut case?

  Quocirca’s Clive Longbottom ponders whether enterprises need to adopt an open source-first strategy for hybrid cloud success  Continue Reading

• General Election 2017: Lib Dems want strong infrastructure and less state surveillance

  Liberal Democrat shadow business secretary Susan Kramer on the party’s plans to strengthen the UK’s infrastructure, protecting privacy and making sure a digital by default government leaves nobody behind  Continue Reading

• Five steps for business after WannaCry cyber attack

  WannaCry reveals some important facts about our dependence on the internet and IT  Continue Reading

• Investing in networks for the future – regulatory developments

  Regulators are increasingly focused on the policy objective of facilitating investment in new network technologies and high-quality broadband services. Angus Finnegan and Saher Ahmed outline some recent developments in this area in the UK and EU  Continue Reading

• Gov.uk Verify and identity assurance - it's time for a rethink

  The government's Verify identity platform is not meeting user needs - it's time to step back and review how best to make online identity for public services work  Continue Reading

• Fake tech support spiders on the world wide web

  Fake tech support should be incorporated into security awareness training as it can be a highly effective way to trick employees into granting access to enterprise computer systems  Continue Reading

• How government can use digital procurement to spend its way out of Brexit troubles

  Better use of the government's purchasing power could help to boost sectors, such as technology, likely to be affected by Brexit  Continue Reading

• Taking stock of Asia’s mobile payments industry

  China is leading the region in mobile payments, with developed markets such as Japan and South Korea not too far behind  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How one organisation’s incident can become everyone’s defence

  How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Red teaming benefits to business can be profound

  How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?  Continue Reading

• Storm clouds gather for US-EU Privacy Shield data deal

  The European Parliament justice committee launches unprecedented criticism of Privacy Shield, while the Irish Court mulls future of binding corporate contracts  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to maximise the value of red team exercises

  How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Red teaming can help businesses identify best security controls

  How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: How to get the best out of red team exercises

  How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?  Continue Reading

• Emerging technologies: How can you cut through the noise?

  Technology leaders need to focus the raw potential of emerging technology into a set of priorities with measurable, tangible business impacts  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Red teaming will benefit security mature organisations most

  How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?  Continue Reading

• What to do first when hit by a cyber attack

  What actions should organisations take if they suspect they have suffered a cyber security incident?  Continue Reading