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Aruba report: How technology can help retailers fight back

While retail has been slow to implement workplace technology, a new report from Aruba says after years of reticence it’s now or never for the industry to embrace it. The study highlights five key technological trends that have emerged in the sector.   Every year, the battle to survive as a brick-and-mortar retailer gets tougher. As […]


Automotive automation: Nearly 1.2 million motoring jobs at risk

Human drivers on the road could soon become obsolete, according to research from the UK’s leading price comparison site, MoneySuperMarket. Driverless vehicles are growing in capability and popularity among firms that traditionally employ large numbers of drivers, including food delivery and bus companies. Automation of driving jobs could trigger large-scale redundancies by as early as […]


Half of drivers with keyless technology concerned about car hacking

Despite 110 car models being vulnerable to one of the most prevalent digital attacks – theft of the vehicle via hacking of the keyless entry and ignition system – only 50% of drivers with keyless access are concerned about their car being stolen, a new study shows. Research from the UK’s leading price comparison website, […]


UK’s worst street for broadband nearly 2,000 times slower than fastest

The slowest broadband in the UK, with an average download speed of 0.14Mbps, is found on Greenmeadows Park in Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire, according to the latest consumer speed tests collected by uSwitch.com, the price comparison and switching service. Greenmeadows Park suffers average speeds that are a staggering 1,899 times slower than the UK’s fastest street, Abdon […]


Kaspersky Lab highlights 2018 regional and global threat landscape

There has been an unprecedented number of cyberattacks and the malware count has reached an all-time in high in 2018, according to Kaspersky Lab. The vendor’s solutions repelled almost two billion attacks launched from online resources and detected more than 21 million unique malicious objects from around the world in 2018. Its statistics show that, […]


Trend Micro finds nearly half of organisations have been victims of BPC attacks

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has revealed that 43% of surveyed organisations have been impacted by a Business Process Compromise (BPC). Despite a high incidence of these types of attacks, 50% of management teams still don’t know what these attacks are or how their business would be impacted if they were […]


Financial services IT pros overconfident in machine identity protection

Venafi, a leading provider in machine identity protection, has announced the results of a June 2018 commissioned study titled Securing The Enterprise With Machine Identity Protection. Conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Venafi, the study examined the views of 116 IT security professionals from financial services and insurance organisations in the US, UK, Germany, […]


Taking the long view – why threat hunting should underpin IT security

Rick McElroy, Chief Security Strategist, Carbon Black, outlines why businesses should be implementing a proactive approach to cybersecurity, using threat hunting to underpin the approach. The US Navy SEALs have a well-known motto: ‘The only easy day was yesterday.’ Taking a look at the latest intelligence on the UK cybersecurity landscape it can feel like […]


Fortinet releases latest Global Threat Landscape Report

Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the findings of its latest quarterly Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals threats are increasing and evolving to become more sophisticated. Unique threat variants and families are on the rise, while botnet infections continue to infect organisations. “Cyberthreats are growing rapidly and […]


Link11 report shows increase in DDoS attack volumes in Q3 2018

Link11, a leader in cloud-based anti-DDoS protection, has released its Q3 DDoS Report, revealing that the scale and volume of attacks continued to grow in Europe during Q3 2018.  The LSOC registered a total of 15,934 attacks in the period (averaging more than 175 attacks per day), an increase of 71% over the previous quarter. […]


These six trends will impact your 2019 Digital Transformation journey

Digital moonshots, apps at the edge and information enlightenment will be among the enterprise digital trends to watch in 2019, according to new predictions by DXC Technology, a leading independent, end-to-end IT services company. The company laid out six predictions that will define the IT shifts organisations will need to think about to drive their […]


Study reveals views on cybersecurity literacy of government officials

Venafi, a leading provider of machine identity protection, has announced the results of a survey of 515 IT security professionals’ views on the cybersecurity literacy of government officials. The survey was conducted earlier this year at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. According to the survey, 88% of respondents believe all government officials should […]


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