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Rik Chorus, Kyndryl: How to defend against evolving cybersecurity threats

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:38:46 +0000

Rik Chorus, Kyndryl’s director of security and resiliency & networking and edge, Benelux, discusses how the firm is helping organisation’s navigate their way through an ever-changing tech and business landscape. Can you tell us a little bit about Kyndryl and what you do at the company? There are a few things that I think are... Read more »

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Policy as code a strategic imperative – but scalability remains difficult

James Bourne — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:08:00 +0000

Policy as code is becoming ‘integral to the fabric of cloud development’, according to Styra – yet a new survey from the company has shown that alignment, visibility, and consistency remain issues. The study from the cloud-native authorisation software provider, which surveyed 285 developers and technical decision makers, found that the overwhelming majority (94%) saw... Read more »

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Cloudflare points finger at hyperscalers holding cloud data captive

James Bourne — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:17:18 +0000

Cloudflare says organisations are losing control over their IT and security environments – and the big cloud providers are holding all the keys to the castle. The web performance and security provider released a study alongside Forrester which polled almost 450 IT decision makers globally, and found that while organisations had seen a dramatic increase... Read more »

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Friction between finance and tech leaders prevents companies from controlling cloud spend

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:27:22 +0000

Vertice, an optimisation platform for SaaS and cloud spend, has unveiled the results of its global survey, ‘The State of Cloud Cost Optimisation’, which reveals that organisations are being held back from controlling their cloud spending and gaining ROI because of a lack of alignment between finance and tech leaders. Amidst cloud costs rising by... Read more »

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Only 24% of enterprises know where cloud apps are and who has access

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 06:19:41 +0000

Identity orchestration company Strata Identity has announced the findings of its third annual State of Multi-Cloud Identity Report, conducted by Osterman Research. The study surveyed 308 IT leaders and decision makers at North American organisations with annual revenues of US$100 million or more on their challenges and priorities for identity management in multi-cloud environments. According... Read more »

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How cloud-based solutions are shaping the future of access control tech

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:28:43 +0000

The development and implementation of managed access control systems remains one of the most important aspects of physical security for most modern organisations, with reports finding the global access control and authentication market to be growing at a CAGR of 11.4% to reach a total market size of $37.2 billion by 2032. But these figures... Read more »

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MongoDB makes end-to-end data encryption technology available

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:11:12 +0000

MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB Queryable Encryption, a first-of-its-kind technology that helps organisations protect sensitive data when it is queried and in-use on MongoDB. MongoDB Queryable Encryption is said to significantly reduce the risk of data exposure for organisations and improves developer productivity by providing built-in encryption capabilities for highly sensitive application... Read more »

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Kyndryl unveils Cybersecurity Incident Response and Forensics Service

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:39:26 +0000

IT infrastructure services providerm, Kyndryl, has unveiled a Cybersecurity Incident Response and Forensics (CSIRF) service to help customers proactively prepare for and respond to threats by applying the latest threat intelligence and experience from Kyndryl’s deep domain security experts. The new service helps customers investigate and respond to a detected security incident by leveraging capabilities... Read more »

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Console Connect and Vultr collaborate to deliver on-demand cloud access worldwide

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 31 May 2023 09:24:59 +0000

Console Connect, a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform, and Vultr, a privately held cloud computing company, have formed a global collaboration that enables businesses to establish their own private, dedicated link between Vultr and the Console Connect platform, improving network security and connectivity for mission-critical applications and workloads. Today, Vultr is integrated with the Console Connect platform... Read more »

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Cloud professionals ‘overly attached to password-based security’

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:38:21 +0000

Most cloud professionals remain overly attached to the use of passwords despite their inherent security vulnerabilities, value as a target for threat actors, and widespread frustrations around password hygiene requirements. This is one of the key findings from research conducted by Beyond Identity, a provider of passwordless, phishing-resistant MFA. The survey of more than 150... Read more »

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