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Spam is decreasing. Is it the beginning of the end for e-mail?

When was the last time that you received an e-mail offering you a discount on pharmaceutical products? If you are using a corporate e-mail system or one of the larger Internet e-mail providers, the chances are it was a while ago. And yet until recently over 90% of e-mail sent was spam. This is something [...]

Taming the tablet

Without question, the iPad has been the most disruptive piece of technology released within the last decade for businesses. The speed of its uptake has surprised everybody, and its uptake in boardrooms and amongst senior executives has dramatically changed the workplace. In business meetings and conferences across the world an exec will turn up with [...]

Free Wifi: Why do we trust it?

Imagine walking along a street on a sunny day. You’re thirsty and, sitting on a table outside a cafe, there is an ice cold, open bottle of beer. Would you pick it up and drink it? Probably not. Most of us would resist the temptation because we don’t know where it’s been or who’s already [...]

The true cost of a data breach (Part Two)

Last week’s Cost of a Data Breach Study update had one particular statistic that stuck with me and to which I keep being drawn to when discussing it with others. In the UK study, they discovered that where an organisation that suffered a breach had a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or someone with the [...]

The true cost of a data breach

Mike Jones, Symantec, warns organisations about the significant costs associated with data breaches for businesses Experts predict that by 2020 the UK will have over 25 million new apps, 31 billion connected devices and over 50 trillion gigabytes of data. This means that by 2020 the amount of data we use will have grown to [...]

The Ultimate Combination – Information Protection with Visibility and Audit

With access control now covered, it’s time to consider another big issue with regards the adoption of cloud – controlling the information that is sent to the organisation. This can create a particular problem when users are dealing with the challenge of mobile devices as well. If an organisation doesn’t approve personal mobile devices [...]

Gaining Access Control

One of the biggest issues with adopting cloud provision is the lack of control over which users have access to remote cloud solutions. With enterprise directories for example, when an employee leaves or changes roles updating the server-based directory is easily achieved using the enterprise tools available. However, extend that function to the cloud and [...]

O3 –Control in the cloud

Cloud computing has presented both the biggest hype and promised the biggest business opportunities organisations have had in a long time; certainly in the past few years. Now that businesses better understand the benefits of this new technology, they are increasingly looking to cloud services for the business agility and efficiency they now know it [...]

Mobile adoption has reached the tipping point, but businesses accept it’s time for a security reality check

Mobile is redefining the network perimeter. Instead of a barbed-wire ring of defence at the edge of the network, the boundary of an organisation’s infrastructure is now a fluid zone where endpoints come and go. One thing that’s for sure is that the mobile device is now a mainstream business tool but it’s difficult to [...]

The internet explodes with gTLDs

On 12 January the internet made history. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAAN) – which controls how urls are managed – launched new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) names. This represents an explosion in the size of the internet. We will no longer be limited to the likes of .com, .net and [...]