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With the end of support for Windows 7 looming, four tech chiefs share their tips for making the switch to Windows 10. The clock is ticking for IT teams that haven’t made the switch to Windows 10 – support for Windows 7 ends on 14 January 2020. Despite that deadline, estimates suggest a third of Windows … Read more
Andrew Martin, founder and CEO of DynaRisk, explains how cyber security scores are improving employee engagement for enterprises. It looks like cyber attacks are here to stay, and they’re costing businesses a lot of money. According to research from Accenture, cybercrime could cost companies globally $5.2tn over the next five years. In response, businesses are doing … Read more
There are several key industry-wide lessons to be learned from the NotPetya attack in 2017, according to the information chief at one of the companies most heavily impacted. The cyber threat landscape has changed fundamentally, with a very real risk of being caught up in nation state-sponsored activity, says Adam Banks, chief technology and information officer … Read more
Security hole in Cisco Elastic Services Controller gets a 10 out of 10 vulnerability rating. Cisco has released a patch for a critical vulnerability in software used to control large virtual environments. The weakness gets a 10 out of 10 severity score and is found in Cisco’s Elastic Services Controller (ESC), which the company describes … Read more
Chrome 75 includes patches for 42 security flaws and adds a “Reader Mode” that strips ads and nonessential content from web pages. Google last week refreshed Chrome, upgrading it to version 75 by patching 42 security vulnerabilities and adding a basic “reader” view that rips ads and nonessential non-text content from pages. The company paid … Read more
Buying Sentryo will give Cisco support for anomaly and real-time threat detection for the industrial internet of things. Looking to expand its IoT security and management offerings Cisco plans to acquire Sentryo, a company based in France that offers anomaly detection and real-time threat detection for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks. Founded in 2014 Sentryo … Read more
Both high and low-risk bugs and licensing conflicts are rife in today’s business codebases. Up to 60 percent of all codebases used in the enterprise contain at least one vulnerability originating from open-source components, new research suggests. On Tuesday, Black Duck by Synopsys released its annual Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report, which analyzed the … Read more
Microsoft is releasing new versions of Windows 10 on a set schedule – and just as regularly retiring older versions from support. Here are all the dates you need to know about through Windows 7’s retirement in 2020 and beyond. Microsoft’s shift to Windows-as-a-service (WaaS) for Windows 10 yielded a repetitive, predictable schedule of version … Read more
Cisco blog follows DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) report detailing risks around Office 365 and other cloud services. It’s no secret that if you have a cloud-based e-mail service, fighting off the barrage of security issues has become a maddening daily routine. The leading e-mail service – in Microsoft’s Office 365 package – seems to be … Read more
The benefits of Hana Cloud Services are clear to Asia-Pacific customers, although actual adoption will boil down to cost. When SAP unveiled its Hana in-memory database in 2010, Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the German software giant, envisioned all operational data in SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to be held in the flagship database. And by storing data on … Read more
