Understanding the “Insider Threat” The revelations that last month’s Sony hack was likely caused by a disgruntled former employee have put a renewed spotlight on the insider threat. The insider [...]

The iCloud Scandal Busting the myth that bad cloud security was to blame for Apple’s recent celebrity data disaster Overview: We discuss the ‘celebrity hacking’ iCloud saga and debate whether [...]

Strong Passwords and Data Encryption For all the concerns and buzz surrounding cloud computing, some companies are still not buying in. The benefits that come from using the cloud are [...]

The Intelligent Tattoo I’ve got you under my skin: the rise of the intelligent tattoo As the Internet of Everything expands its reach to embrace many new areas of life, [...]

Can Google Detect Cancer? Google X – the tech giant’s semi-secret facility that is dedicated to making major technological advancements – is well-known for its ‘moonshots’; ideas which seem outlandish [...]

Username/Passwords MUST Go New Year’s Resolution #1 for any cloud IT deployment manager in 2015 ought to be that the user name/password alone must go.  High-profile breaches that exploit username [...]

How Much Data Do You Need To Hide? “If you’ve not got anything to hide, you’ve not got anything to worry about”, or so the old saying goes… But how [...]

Ready For The Cloud? For several years now, people and organizations have been slowly but surely moving their data and applications to the cloud. Whether it is a local private [...]

Workplace Cloud Security Our workplaces are changing and much of it for the better. Increased flexibility – pushed by cloud services – is behind many of the changes. Home working, [...]

Safely Storing Data in the Cloud It’s not easy to make sure all your data and documents are protected when using the cloud. It often seemed like 2014 was ‘the [...]

Mobile Apps Environment Mobile employees need mobile apps. Mobile apps help field personnel to be more productive and often enable them to generate new revenue streams and improve customer service [...]

Wearable Tech Importance The wearable tech marketplace is a dynamic, ever-changing arena. No sooner has one gadget launched than a newer, better, more full-featured device has taken its place. Similarly, [...]

Website Business Migration Cloud services seem rather straightforward to many. Email? Gmail, Office365. Websites, apps? Amazon, Google, Azure. But the list goes on for online collaboration, manufacturer solutions, bookkeeping, and [...]

Standardisation of the Internet of Things We’ve often noted on this blog that one of the biggest short-term problems facing the growth of the Internet of Things is compatibility. Too [...]

The Cloud In 2015 For organizations of all sizes, in 2014 the cloud emerged as a critical part of the default consideration set when implementing any new application – in [...]