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Auckland International Airport Chief Technology and Marketing Officer Jonathan Good on what he learned from starting his own business, dealing with turbulent times in the travel industry, and the importance of making transformation intentional to unlock human capability. Watch this episode: Source link

Advocating for greater security collaboration between businesses, law enforcement, and government By Nicole Mills, Exhibition Director at Infosecurity Group Cybercrime is on an extremely worrying trajectory. A previous survey of global IT security decision makers conducted by Statista revealed that 46.4% of organizations had endured between one and five successful cyber-attacks in the 12 months ended November 2020. Since then, Accenture has reported that such attacks increased 31% between 2020 and 2021. As we now…

By Bryan Alsdorf, Director of IT and Head of Information Security, MariaDB Corporation To paraphrase a mantra popularized by Spider-Man: With great power comes great responsibility. It may sound corny. But, with the rise of massive data informing so many aspects of our lives directly and indirectly, this well-known wisdom is especially true when it comes to building databases capable of managing that exponential data growth. Consider that global data creation is projected to reach…

This article was co-authored by Chris Boyd, a Senior Associate at Metis Strategy. Today’s CIOs lead innovation efforts aimed at increasing revenue, accessing new markets, and growing product lines. However, according to Foundry’s 2022 State of the CIO Survey, 76% of CIOs say it’s challenging to find the right balance between business innovation and operational excellence. If CIOs can’t master operational excellence – “keeping the lights on” – they lose credibility with their peers and…

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a scam or heard of someone whose bank account was emptied by fraudsters?   Unfortunately, these examples are becoming increasingly common. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) shared that they receive about 1,000 scam complaints daily from cash app users. As the number of cash app users increased over the last few years, so did the number of fraudsters on payment apps like Venmo and PayPal. As a…

The joy of purchasing a new device is liberating. Now you can work, learn, and play faster — along with enjoying ample storage space. So, the last thing you’d expect is your apparently safe device being exposed to vulnerabilities, or “bloat.”   Exposure to unwanted software can derail its performance and hog its storage within a few months of usage. In technical terms, such pieces of software are referred to as bloatware. Bloatware has the potential…

ReversingLabs researchers discovered a new ransomware family targeting Linux-based systems in South Korea. Dubbed GwisinLocker, the malware was detected by ReversingLabs on July 19 while undertaking successful campaigns targeting firms in the industrial and pharmaceutical space. “In those incidents, it often launched attacks on public holidays and during the early morning hours (Korean time) – looking to take advantage of periods in which staffing and monitoring within target environments were relaxed,” ReversingLabs wrote in an advisory published…