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New survey highlights worrying lack of guidance from employers on use of personal devices

A survey commissioned by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has shown many employers appear to have a ‘laissez faire’ attitude to allowing staff to use their personal laptop, tablet computer or smartphone for work business, which may be placing people’s personal information at risk.

Introducing the Electronics Disposal Efficiency metric

The Green Grid launches first-of-its-kind metric to help organisations measure the responsible disposition of decommissioned ICT assets.

Published in Device Security Management Security + Compliance Storage + Servers

86% of workforce are remote-device obsessed.

Published in Device Security Management Security + Compliance Storage + Servers

Adds enhanced security, database support and customisation capabilities to industry-leading file transfer server.

Trustwave opens Security Operations Center in Asia Pacific

Trustwave has opened a new Security Operations Center (SOC) in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, to meet client needs and support the growth of Trustwave’s Managed Security Services. The new Security Operations Center enhances Trustwave’s ability to serve clients headquartered in Asia Pacific, in addition to large, multinational businesses with operations in the region.

Allied Telesis: Neue Netzwerkkarte (NIC) verbessert Secure-Client- und VoIP-Integration für den Edge-Bereich 

Endgeräte mit Kupferleitungen können dank der neuen Lösung über Glasfasernetze kommunizieren

Varonis says leaky apps and cloud data insecurities are the new corporate norm

Commenting on a New York Times story about the governance issues that portable devices and their leaky apps create for companies, Varonis Systems says that mobile access to cloud-based data - and replication to the device itself - has become the new corporate norm. “Organisations are losing track of where their critical data is stored, so controlling, monitoring and auditing that data is becoming more and more difficult. IT must be able to offer the functionality that its end users need to collaborate, but without losing control”, says David Gibson, VP of Strategy with the data governance specialist.

IT-Manager verlassen sich nicht länger nur auf Tape zur Datensicherung

Umfrage von Acronis: Unternehmen setzen zunehmend auf Cloud-Storage, da Bandsicherungen oft zu fehlerhaft sind

Stellar rise for Stellium Data Centres in the North East

Ed Bissell, Sales Director, Stellium Data Centres, explains the advantages of Newcastle and the North East, as more and more organisations not only look to move to a colocation data centre solution, but also understand the benefits of working with a colo provider away from what might be called ‘traditional’ locations.

Women in IT – Sarah Friswell, CEO of Red Ant

Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace. In this video, we talk to Sarah Friswell, CEO of Red Ant.

Sustainable storage – time for IT teams to step up

Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.

Keeping control of the cloud

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’.

Device Security News Videos Expert Opinions

New survey highlights worrying lack of guidance from employers on use of personal devices

Introducing the Electronics Disposal Efficiency metric

Half of companies have lost a device with important data

Ipswitch File Transfer announces WS_FTP Server 7.6

Trustwave opens Security Operations Center in Asia Pacific

Allied Telesis: Neue Netzwerkkarte (NIC) verbessert Secure-Client- und VoIP-Integration für den Edge-Bereich

Varonis says leaky apps and cloud data insecurities are the new corporate norm

IT-Manager verlassen sich nicht länger nur auf Tape zur Datensicherung

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Stellar rise for Stellium Data Centres in the North East

Women in IT – Sarah Friswell, CEO of Red Ant

Sustainable storage – time for IT teams to step up

Keeping control of the cloud

Expert Opinions

Innersource, OSPOs, and a move toward a more strategic use of open source

The metaverse presents great opportunity, but It must be approached with caution

Making better business decisions in the face of global economic pressure

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