Cloud adopters still struggling to see what shadow-IT users are doing
Businesses trust the security of cloud providers but many have no way of confirming it
David Braue | 18 Aug | Read more
Businesses trust the security of cloud providers but many have no way of confirming it
David Braue | 18 Aug | Read more
The threat of employees bringing their own smartphones and software to work was entirely overblown. But consumerisation can still be headache.
Microsoft is rolling out Advanced Security Management for companies on Office 365 using technology designed to tackle risks from rogue cloud apps at work.
With about 145,000 employees and 160,000 suppliers based in 35 countries representing 130 nationalities, the Airbus Group has been on a long journey over the last five years. The company has transformed company into a security-aware enterprise while continuing production. This is with manufacturing already booked solid for most of the next decade.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Apr | Read more
Ten years ago, security was a line item in most company IT strategies, if it was mentioned at all. But with the advent of mega-breaches in late 2013 through to nation state attacks such as the OPM breach a year ago IT security has leapt into the boardroom and C-suite.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Apr | Read more
The Australian government stepped up its push for mandatory data retention legislation, drawing out supporters and detractors as the controversial legislation pushed its way towards becoming law.
David Braue | 02 Mar | Read more
Less than 1 in 4 Australian and New Zealand businesses is in the advanced stages of planning their cloud rollout – yet with nearly half of CEOs and board members supporting the paradigm and 60 percent of respondents reporting security issues, the other organisation are not free from problems related to the cloud, a Red Hat customer survey has found.
David Braue | 26 Feb | Read more
So-called 'shadow IT' – technology solutions, often cloud-based, that are purchased by individual departments without oversight from central IT organisations – has proved to have a silver lining, with CIOs finding that departments' increasing IT autonomy is giving CIOs more time to focus on creative IT strategies and solutions, a new survey has found.
David Braue | 20 Jan | Read more
The issue of so-called 'shadow IT' – informal adoption of cloud-based applications independent of a company's official IT strategy – has continued to cause problems but is more pronounced in smaller businesses with little or no IT oversight.
David Braue | 06 Nov | Read more
The inherently casual and decentralised nature of cloud services will increasingly push organisations to reconsider their identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure, an Ovum analyst has warned.
David Braue | 20 Aug | Read more