Financial services watchdog gets bitten by data leak
The UK’s financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which regulates the conduct of financial businesses and markets has admitted to exposing information in a data breach. The breach, which took place in 2019, [1] leaked the names, addresses and phone number details of people who had made complaints against the FCA. The authority […]
Read MoreHow the cloud is changing organisations
While cloud computing has been around for a long time, it’s only in the last decade that the technology has matured enough for it to enter the mainstream and become a viable alternative to in-house systems and data centres. The cloud is now routinely at the top of business shopping lists when it comes to […]
Read MoreWhy security needs to be closer to the edge
The increase in the number of IoT devices coupled with a trend towards BYOD and the continued adoption of cloud services means that the focus on business security is moving away from protecting the core network to dealing with devices at the edge. All of these extra devices plus a blurring of the personal and […]
Read MoreThe role of blockchain in IT security
Blockchain technology is widely associated with crypto currencies such as Bitcoin, allowing transactions to be recorded in a way that is not easy to tamper with. But blockchain has wider implications for protecting transactions and for securing IT devices, so how does it work and what implications does it have for the future? What is […]
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