By Stephen Helm, Product Marketing Manager, WatchGuard Technologies Last year was a challenging year for IT teams, and tech workers will continue to feel the mounting burden of maintaining business continuity moving forward. In the early part of 2020, IT teams were stressed to the brink as they scrambled to help their organizations adapt to the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital transformation timelines accelerated and businesses entered a mode of “survive to thrive.” Many…

The open source community delivered vital help to companies affected by the SolarWinds attack. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The ramifications of the SolarWinds attack are still unfolding more than four months since the breaches were revealed to the public. One underappreciated facet of the wide-ranging scandal that has engulfed much of the U.S. government and hundreds of major companies involves the powerful role the open source community played in helping enterprises respond to the crisis, according…

UK consumers are keen to embrace the use of QR codes as the country exits COVID-19 lockdown, but security experts have warned that low awareness levels could be exploited by cyber-criminals. Security vendor Ivanti recently polled over 500 British consumers to better understand their attitudes to QR codes. The technology is increasingly being used in hospitality settings like bars and restaurants to enable customers to access “touch-free” menus and other information in a more hygienic…

The new platform is a combination of SASE, access control and cloud-native endpoint security that the company said is the only solution of its kind on the market. Image: VMware Hot off its divestment from parent company Dell, VMware is announcing a new remote work solution called VMware Anywhere Workspace, a zero-trust, cloud native platform that the company said is designed to eliminate friction between IT and remote employees, all while improving security and reducing…

News Detail New Solution Enables a Highly Engaged Workforce; Delivers Broader, More Effective Security; and Reduces Costs and Operational Overhead PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The way we work has changed forever. And now that leading companies have seen the benefits of remote work, they want to do more than just support it. They want to become truly distributed businesses that can work from … Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 New Solution Enables a Highly Engaged…

Key IT systems at the University of Portsmouth continue to remain offline this week after a supposed ransomware attack, delaying the start of the new term. A notice on the university’s homepage doesn’t explicitly name ransomware as the cause of the “cyber incident,” but the “ongoing technical disruption” it describes is a tell-tale sign of such attacks. However, The News has reported that it has seen an email from the university claiming it suffered a ransomware attack. …

The UK government has stepped in to review the sale of chip designer Arm to Nvidia on national security as well as competition grounds. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden yesterday issued a Public Interest Intervention Notice (PIIN), which will require regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to begin a “phase one” investigation. “As a next step and to help me gather the relevant information, the UK’s independent competition authority will now prepare a report on the implications…