Paul Fleming, strategic director of resources at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, topped the 2021 CIO UK 100 after an incredible year in which he led the council’s digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pioneered a contact tracing system which became a blueprint for the UK and drove significant advances in team culture, diversity and technology modernisation. Fleming, a first-time entry to the CIO UK 100 no less, spoke at the CIO 100 ceremony about…

We live in a changed world. Advances in technology that were supposed to take years happened in months. Along the way, assumptions and legacy thinking gave way to urgency and a can-do .. no, must-do attitude. But one person’s chaos is another person’s opportunity. Cyber attackers have taken advantage of the disruption, scaling up their attacks against poorly defended end-points that suddenly sat in a living room, not a perimeter-protected, fire-walled corporate office. But a…

Virginia is fighting cyber-fires on two fronts after ransomware attacks affected both its state legislature and an agency within its executive branch.  In an attack that struck on the evening of December 12, key IT systems under the Division of Legislative Automated Systems (DLAS) were rendered inaccessible. The attack was focused on certain internal servers, impacting the General Assembly voicemail server and the General Assembly’s Legislative Information System (LIS) portal, which allows lawmakers to draft bills and…

Initial access brokers are cybercriminals who specialize in breaching companies and then selling the access to ransomware attackers. Learn how to protect your business from IABs. Image: djedzura/ iStock Ransomware attacks have increased seriously in the last two years, targeting every vertical of the corporate world. You might assume these cybercriminals are very skilled, since they are able to compromise a lot of companies; what if I told you they are maybe not as skilled…

By Prashant Gupta, Christophe Boyer, and Arun Sivadas Global enterprises pivot to the cloud to address shifts in business and technology. This shift has been accelerated by disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Enterprises operating SAP systems need to adopt a holistic migration approach for SAP S/4HANA since technical support for SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) ends in 2027. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been running SAP workloads since 2008 with more than 90%…

The U.S. CISA added 13 new vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including Apache Log4Shell Log4j and Fortinet FortiOS issues. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 13 new vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including recently disclosed Apache Log4Shell Log4j and Fortinet FortiOS flaws. Below is the list of new vulnerabilities added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, which is the list of issues frequently used as attack vector by threat actors in…