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More than four out of five (83%) resellers see ransomware attacks as the main threat – but most are not ready to counter any such attack. In a survey carried out for WatchGuard, 45% of resellers said they believed less than half of their customers would have the right tools and measures in place to...

New solutions provide visibility, simplify migration and protect critical data across clouds with no lock-in Mountain View, Calif., June 6, 2017 –  Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, today announced new solutions that provide organisations unprecedented visibility into cloud-based data, bi-directional cloud migration for critical workloads and snapshot-based data protection optimised for multi-cloud environments. These...

What is ‘Petya’? A calculated ransomware campaign with a heavy footprint in Ukraine was detected on 27 June 2017 from an unknown source. To date, the attack has affected global organisations primarily in the banking, pharmaceutical and transportation industries. While most reports, and the ransom demand itself, refer to the activity as ‘Petya’, a well-known...

An event similar to the recent NHS attack could bring a university campus to its knees, says Graeme Stewart, Director of Public Sector, UK&I, Fortinet The recent WannaCry attacks that have proliferated throughout the NHS and other organisations across the globe prove that the disruption that ransomware can cause is not insignificant. Universities and other institutions...

Worldwide AR and VR headset shipments are expected to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 108.3%, reaching 76.0 million units by 2020. More affordable VR devices will continue to lead the market in terms of volume. However, IDC expects AR headsets to pick up momentum over the forecast as more affordable technologies and...

As has been discussed vigorously over the past few months, you may be aware of GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – which is a EU based legal framework designed to protect your customer’s personal data.  It goes further than the Data Protection Act and is much more specific on what personal data is, how...

The recent events and associated news coverage of the cyber-attack outbreak highlighted the damage, not only to IT systems and services but also the damage to trust, that can be inflicted on organisations. The ransomware threat is neither new nor novel. It is a type of malicious software that infiltrates an endpoint with the purpose...

Posted by Matthew Scott Within a twenty-minute trip from my front door, I have a number of shopping options. I can hit one of ten grocery stores for food, or a variety of convenience stores, walk-in restaurants, sit-down places or even food trucks for meals. Big box as well as hole-in-the-wall stores sell items across...

by Bev Terrel Since apps can be used on smartphones to do things like schedule appointments at restaurants or at the hairdresser, a physician in Switzerland wondered why we couldn’t make appointments for emergency rooms as well. “We all have the same problems in healthcare, it doesn’t matter where you live or where you work,” said...

IBM Watson Imaging Clinical Review is the first cognitive solution from Watson Health’s medical imaging business. To understand customer perceptions of Watson Imaging Clinical Review, we asked a select few members of the Watson Health Medical Imaging Collaborative to put it under the microscope. Over a total of 22 hours, we met with 38 professionals...

by Lindsay van Gemert at https://blogs.cisco.com/security/how-to-protect-against-the-most-advanced-email-based-attacks With over 100 billion corporate emails exchanged each day, it’s no wonder that email remains a major threat vector. Organizations around the globe depend on email to quickly communicate and collaborate. And as long as organizations use email to send and receive files, communicate and interact, malicious files, links and attachments will...

As more customers warm to the idea of subscribing for hardware as well as software and services, Dell-EMC is working to raise awareness of the leasing options available via Dell Financial Services. Dell Financial Services wants to establish a strong relationship with channel partners and to contributing to the overall success of their business. It’s...