Heathrow Airport aims to roll out facial biometrics by summer 2019
London Heathrow is investing £50 million to expand its use of facial biometrics throughout the airport, ahead of a full roll out by next summer.
By Scott Carey | 26 Oct | Read more
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Sky turns to machine learning to shut down Premier League piracy
The UK broadcaster Sky has turned to Google Cloud's BigQuery data warehouse and machine learning algorithms to investigate web traffic and shut down pirate sites in real time.
By Scott Carey | 27 Jul | Read more
How News Corp got 25,000 staff members using Okta
American media giant News Corp is an established customer of Okta, successfully on-boarding 25,000 global employees onto the identity management platform to date. How did it get there and what lessons did it learn?
By Scott Carey | 29 Jun | Read more
Should we believe the White House when it says North Korea is behind WannaCry?
The White House has officially accused North Korea of being behind the global WannaCry ransomware attack which crippled organisations including the National Health Service (NHS) back in May.
By Scott Carey | 26 Dec | Read more
Cybersecurity threats that keep the banks up at night
People are often asking financial services firms what is keeping them up at night, and fraud and cyber security increasingly top the list, but what are the specific threats they have to contend with?
By Scott Carey | 03 May | Read more
How the US cyber security unicorn Tanium plans to crack the UK market
The Oakland, California-based cybersecurity startup is readying for a 2017 IPO, and sees the U.K. as its second market after the United States. Here is what it does, who its customers are and why it thinks the UK is ahead of the US when it comes to cyber security.
By Scott Carey | 24 Dec | Read more
Travis Perkins uses Splunk’s flexible cyber security monitoring to protect against customer data breaches
The large building supplies retailer uses Splunk for its cyber security monitoring as it continues its transition to the cloud
By Scott Carey | 30 Sep | Read more
How to get a job as a security engineer: skills, qualifications, responsibilities and salary
Cyber security engineers are in hot demand, here are some handy tips on how to pursue a lucrative career in network and cyber security
By Scott Carey | 26 Aug | Read more
Deutsche Bank moves blockchain project out of proof of concept stage and voices concerns with the distributed ledger technology
Deutsche Bank has moved its blockchain project out of the proof of concept stage, according to the bank’s head of disruptive technologies, who also warned that the distributed ledger blockchain technology is still five to ten years from widespread use.
By Scott Carey | 20 Jun | Read more
Seven reasons blockchain isn’t ready for mainstream deployment
A lead analyst at Forrester shares her views on blockchain technology, the risks it poses to enterprise customers and how they can eventually reap the rewards of the distributed ledger technology.
By Scott Carey | 14 Jun | Read more