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The retail sector was the top cyber attack target in 2017, as cyber attacks evolved to become more organised and structured, a report reveals. The retail sector suffered the most breach incidences (16.7%) in 2017 as attackers became more organised, the latest Trustwave security report shows. The retail sector was followed by the finance and … Read more
Corporate spending to protect internet of things devices will be driven to a large extent by regulatory requirements, Gartner says. The market for IoT security products is set to grow sharply, as the general IoT market becomes ever more ubiquitous, according to a report released this month by Gartner Research. While there are numerous drivers … Read more
SAP’s recent settlement with AB InBev has again put audits and licensing under the spotlight. We look at how to get the best value and avoid fines. As someone who follows the software licensing market and who is also partial to the odd pint of Stella Artois, I have been following the AB InBev versus SAP case … Read more
With large-scale cyber attacks and dangerous vulnerabilities such as WannaCry and Spectre, companies have reached a point where the use of traditional antivirus (AV) technologies are no longer sufficient to effectively protect endpoints from hackers. Why signature-based AV is no longer effective Antivirus technologies have not evolved much over the last fifteen years. Their detection model … Read more
Called Licensed, the tool finds license dependencies early in the development life cycle. GitHub has open-sourced its Licensed tool, a Ruby gem that caches and verifies the status of license dependencies in Git repos. Licensed has helped GitHub engineers who use open source software find potential problems with license dependencies early in the development cycle. … Read more
A preview of Windows Server 2019 adds features for hyperconvergence, management, security, containers and more. Because Microsoft has shifted to a more gradual upgrade of Windows Server, many of the features that will become available with Windows Server 2019 have already been in use in live corporate networks, and here are half a dozen of the best. … Read more
With the roll-out of GNU GPL 3.0 open source licensing, the industry is expecting discrepancies, and hopes an open discussion will help to debug it. Ten companies have made a public commitment to providing greater predictability to open source users under the new GPL (General Public Licence) v3.0 licensing. CA Technologies, Cisco, HPE, Microsoft, SAP and SUSE … Read more
The insecurity of mobile devices and the vulnerabilities of public WiFi networks remain at an all-time high. These days, it’s not uncommon to hear cyber security experts talk about the eroding perimeter. With the advent of mobile and cloud, what was (or at least seemed to be) a clearly defined demarcation point between the private … Read more
There is no point in paying for something you never use – or worse, using the wrong licence. Doing the bare minimum for SAP licence management is not enough. Many licence reports seem to be based on the basic consideration that “one installation equals one licence”, and in the case of desktop, on-site software, this … Read more
IT budgets must not only reflect short-term strategic plans but also drive innovation. Here’s how to ensure you’re delivering tactical IT and services that produce true digital transformation. The IT budget says a lot about its owners: whether executives have a roadmap for the future and whether they’re willing to pay for it, whether company … Read more
