Password Management One of the main drawbacks to the borderless space that comprises the cloud is that of security. Recent breaches such as Heartbleed, Target and Home Depot demonstrate that [...]

Mobile Collaboration In The Cloud Imagine that you, as a manager, are told by the powers that be that you have to find “efficiencies” within your department that will result [...]

Personalization In The Cloud As websites like Facebook, Google and Amazon become more and more personalized, there’s danger to be engulfed in a stream of information that corroborates a person’s [...]

Define Security First Given the amount of prose dedicated to the internet of things, it would hardly be foolish to assume that the term is well-defined and well-understood. In reality [...]

Cloud Transition and Transformation Framework Many years ago I was introduced to the concepts that comprise the visual architecture process. During the process of learning about the concepts and process [...]

Apps That Violate Over the last two days we’ve looked at  whether or not Shadow IT is a opportunity or a threat, and the security risks that unapproved apps pose [...]

Yesterday we looked at the growing area of Shadow IT within organisations. We concluded that even though Shadow IT has the potential to be a force for good, there is [...]

Shadow IT Shadow IT – sometimes referred to as Stealth IT – describes the usage of IT systems and solutions that are built and used inside businesses and organisations without [...]

IT Security: Think Like A Thief With security threats to information services growing in sophistication, frequency and variety, IT professionals on all sides of the marketplace are realizing an urgent [...]

What Are Cloud Access Security Brokers? “Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your [...]

Computing Obstacles According to Buyya et al. (2008), “A Cloud is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of inter-connected and virtualized computers that are dynamically provisioned and [...]

By Al Johnson

Mapping Criminals With New Technologies “He, who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.” – Seneca Computer-based crime mapping has been around for thirty or forty years. [...]

The Costs For Information Leakages “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” Oscar Wild Year 2014 was marked as the year of Big Data [...]

Smartphone Security Issues Smartphones, with advanced computing ability and connectivity, have dramatically changed the computing landscape. Smartphones run complete operating system software that provides a standardized interface and platform for [...]