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Barnardo’s, one of the UK’s leading children’s charities, has selected Nexthink to provide greater insight into its IT infrastructure. By utilising IT analytics, the charity aims to accurately measure the end-user experience to improve the efficiency of incident management and service delivery. Barnardo’s works with more than 240,000 children, young people and their families each year, and its mission is to transform the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children. With over 900 services running...

The Open Group, a vendor-and technology-neutral IT consortium, announced that Huawei has been accredited to the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS). The standard is aimed at assuring both the integrity of commercial off-the-shelf information and communication technology products and the security of their supply chains. The standard helps safeguard the products and their global supply chains against the increasing sophistication of cybersecurity attacks. The O-TTPS Accreditation Programme recognises Open Trusted Technology Providers who are conformant...

Cryptzone, a provider of dynamic, context-aware network security software, today announced the newest version of AppGate XDP, the company’s simple-to-deploy Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) solution, for organizations looking to solve today’s most pressing security challenges. The Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) approach to security evolved from the work done at the US Defense Information Systems Agency, and has been formalized as a specification published by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It has recently been popularized by companies such...

Ever imagined being able to interact with the computer pixels in front of you without a screen? Just reaching into your computer to manipulate the information and visuals you’re looking at. The Microsoft HoloLens makes this a possibility. A ‘Mixed Reality’ device, HoloLens is positioned between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, recognising the surrounding environment and placing holograms in your world. UK innovation studio Kazendi, was one of the first companies in the UK to...

A new report has found that fraudulent social media profiles for brands has increased by 150% over the last year. Proofpoint has just released its inaugural Social Media Brand Fraud report which investigates the current state of social media brand fraud to understand bad actors’ methods and how this business risk is evolving. From April through June 2016, Proofpoint researched the prevalence and different types of fraudulent social media accounts associated with 10 top global brands (including...

Security management vendor, FireMon, today announced  a new standard in firewall change automation that takes into account the impact on compliance and security to reduce the manual effort and unnecessary security risk associated with today’s complex implementations. To date, customers leveraging the IPA framework have reduced the time to complete a change by more than 90%, while maintaining their security posture or even lowering the level of risk. FireMon Intelligent Policy Automation (IPA) is a...

At the beginning of the summer, Kaspersky Lab assisted in the arrest of suspects that were part of the Lurk gang, which allegedly stole more than 45 million dollars from a number of companies and banks in Russia. It was the largest financial cybercrime group to be caught in recent years. However, this wasn’t the only cybercriminal activity Lurk group has been involved in. According to analysis of the IT infrastructure behind the Lurk malware,...

The increase in cybercrime, a growing global phenomenon, is likely to drive an increase in the use of complicated mathematical algorithms to encrypt sensitive data. And that may just about save the Blackberry name from being consigned to the history books. That’s the view of Geoff Green, president and chief executive officer of Myntex Inc. Green says: “The rapid adoption of digital technology and the scale of cybercrime globally represent significant challenges not only to law enforcement agencies but...

Following reports of increasing digital talent shortages in the UK, Bogdan Botezatu, Senior E-Threat Analyst at Bitdefender®, discusses why Security-as-a-Service could provide a short term fix. Increased cloud adoption is forcing businesses to boost investment in their security operations, subsequently driving demand for skilled security professionals. That being said, the rapid adoption of cloud computing, IT infrastructure and security has left a knowledge gap in terms of the security expertise available to address the increasing...

IP EXPO Europe, Europe's number one enterprise IT event, has today announced the addition of several influential industry speakers to this year’s keynote and seminar programme. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear how key IT issues are affecting businesses and humanity alike, from Author & Founding Director of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute: Nick Bostrom; the ‘Father of Java’: James Gosling; the creator of the ‘MySpace worm’ and now an Independent Security Researcher:...