Category Archives: IT Security, Risk & ESG
Do more of your apps deserve better DR?
What does IT disaster recovery (DR) mean to you? Does it bring to mind racks[...]
The Democratization of IT Disaster Recovery
If it has been a while since you thought about your DR measures, or a[...]
Have you planned for a ’friendly’ DDoS attack?
Malicious Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks do not occur often. Nevertheless, for an enterprise[...]
Mobile security is more than protecting local data
By now we’ve all heard the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon is[...]
What are APT’s?
What is an APT? APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The goal of this form[...]
Say What?
Recently I attended the IBM Security Systems Analyst Meet the Experts day in Heathrow. With[...]
Security: the oft-forgotten dimension
Computer security is a hot topic today, and much talked about. There are endless emanations[...]
Computer Security: Knowing What You Don’t Know
100 per cent security is a fantasy: you will be attacked by both known and[...]
The State of Network Infrastructure
By Tony Lock Networks are the glue that allow users to function effectively in their[...]
The Death of the Corporate Network Perimeter
By Tony Lock In a recent survey over 400 respondents gave us the inside track[...]
Juggling Performance, Availability and Security
By Tony Lock A recent report from Freeform Dynamics illustrates that many corporate networks are[...]
Controlling Application Access
Application performance, availability and security challenges are quietly creeping up in the context of internal[...]
The Security Education Dilemma
By Charles Brett Security covers many dimensions, including the physical and logical. As such many[...]
Are we barking up the wrong mobile data protection tree?
By Charles Brett Professional IT prefers disciplined approaches which back up, or copy, all enterprise[...]
Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to move forwards
By Charles Brett and Tony Lock During an Analyst Briefing at the IBM Development Laboratory[...]
The Business Value of Data Protection
By Tony Lock The data held in every business is valuable and in the current[...]
Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation
By Tony Lock Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to attract considerable attention, but the[...]
Data fragmentation challenges for CIOs
By Tony Lock A recent survey by Freeform Dynamics confirmed that access to accurate information[...]
The End User Security Jigsaw
Organisations of all sizes are trying to understand the security implications of mobile working, device[...]
The Data Protection Imperative
In this short paper, we spell out why the time has come to adopt a[...]
Data Protection as a Business Enabler
While the importance of business information is almost universally recognised, few organisations have enjoyed either[...]
Storage Anywhere and Everywhere
With more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services, with access via[...]
Managing expanding business – Critical Linux workloads
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers[...]
DCIM and Energy Management
By Tony Lock Over several decades IT management has focussed almost exclusively on keeping servers[...]