NATO legt Richtlinien für die Cyber-Kriegsführung vor – Warnung vor Angriffen auf kritische Infrastruktur

In einem neuen Handbuch der NATO wurde nun ein Verhaltenskodex für die Kriegsführung im Cyberspace festgehalten. In dem Dokument wird unter anderem vor Cyber-Angriffen auf kritische Infrastruktureinrichtungen wie Krankenhäuser oder AKWs gewarnt, die zwar als militärische Ziele festgelegt sein können, bei deren Abschaltung, Beschädigung oder Zerstörung aber mit hohen Opferzahlen zu rechnen ist.

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HP Converged Infrastructure enables new levels of performance and collaboration

HP has been selected by DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) to deliver the technology behind “The Croods,” pushing the boundaries of modern imagery for this prehistoric animated adventure that is anything but primitive.

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GFI Software gründet neue unabhängige Firma mit Fokus auf innovativen Sicherheitslösungen

GFI Software plant die Ausgliederung des Security-Technologie-Geschäftsbereichs mit seiner VIPRE Familie von Antivirus-Produkten und seinen Anti-Malware-Lösungen SandBox und ThreatTrack und gründet ThreatTrack Security Inc. 

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Schritt in die richtige Richtung: Neuer Referentenentwurf zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit von IT-Systemen

Dem Bundeskabinett soll demnächst ein Referentenentwurf vom Bundesinnenministerium zugehen mit dem Anliegen, die Sicherheit von IT-Systemen in der Bundesrepublik zu verbessern

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ISACA issues governance and assurance guidance for Big Data

Big data can save big money. A recent McKinsey report found that value gained from data in the US health care sector alone could be more than US $300 billion every year. But traditional tools aren’t enough to manage these extremely large amounts of fast-changing information. To help enterprises use big data effectively, global nonprofit IT association ISACA issued guidance today on how to manage the chaos and address the business benefits and challenges.

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IT services market endured a dismal end to 2012

Last year was the worst for IT services contract activity since 2002, according to research from Ovum. Performance in the three months to the end of December 2012 fell well below the levels seen in the same period of 2011, ensuring that annual IT services contract activity fell to its lowest level for 10 years, both in terms of total contract value (TCV) and deal volume.

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Hadoop security comes under scrutiny

Dataguise has announced the results of a recent survey on the importance of securing sensitive data in Apache Hadoop environments. The study was conducted at the O’reilly Strata Conference and the RSA Conference where survey participants highlighted the need to secure sensitive information in Hadoop deployments, reducing the risk for non-compliance.

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Number of data leaks in government sector continues to rise

InfoWatch Research Center has released its latest annual report on worldwide data leaks reported by the press during 2012. According to InfoWatch analysts, more than 1.8 billion records were compromised in 2012, including those containing financial and personal data. The press reported 934 confidential information leaks, a 16% increase compared with last year. Direct losses – those that were published in open sources – alone amounted to more than 37.8 million dollars.

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Latest Claranet research highlights Bring Your Own Dilemma

96 per cent say mobile working benefits their organisation, but three quarters think BYOD increases security risk.

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Ovum predicts radical change for the enterprise landscape by 2020

Citrix, Google, VMware and Yammer identified as disruptive players driving this transformation.

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Huge savings from mobile working could cost businesses a fortune if they ignore off-site security

A report on remote and home working released today has found that British businesses could be saving £34 billion just in freeing up overheads. But Fasthost’s Simon Yeoman has suggested that whilst working outside of the office has essentially become the norm for an increasing number of firms, decision makers must have the foresight to prevent hidden costs associated with taking business critical data off-site.

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Business leaders ignore responsibility for data in the cloud

Nine in 10 firms believe cloud service providers have accountability for data security.

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Shadow IT lurks uncomfortably, for IT departments

The growth in ‘Shadow IT’ is leaving IT departments caught between a rock and a hard place, according to Simon Bain, CTO of search specialists, Simplexo, who suggests that the concerns existing around managing unsupported devices are equally matched by the need to bring IT expenditure in on budget.

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CIOs reassess their roles in the face of changing business requirements

Research highlights importance of CIOs building internal relationships with sales and marketing to improve end user customer experience.

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Videos

DCS talks to Jon Summers from RISE Research Institutes of Sweden at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.
Elliott Young, CTO, Dell Technologies UK, discusses edge computing – what is or isn’t happening as of now, how it contributes to companies’ sustainability objectives and, perhaps most importantly, the huge potential it offers almost every business when it comes to optimising the performance of their applications.
Max Schulze, CEO and Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the importance of local and regional clouds as an alternative approach to the hyperscale model, suggesting that, in a world apparently obsessed with issues such as data sovereignty, time would be better spent understanding the importance of infrastructure ‘independence’.
Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, discusses the activities of the organisation as it works on many initiatives to promote environmental best practice across the data centre and wider IT sectors, optimistic that the scale of the challenge is not beyond the reach of a combination of technology and business innovation.

Expert Opinions

Graph expert Jim Webber looks at how graph database technology could be a boon in supporting data centre managers. Jim is Chief Scientist at graph database company Neo4j.
By Tim Loake, VP, Infrastructure Solutions Group UK, Dell Technologies.