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A new survey from BJSS, the award-winning delivery-focused IT consultancy, and YouGov reveals that 67% of teachers throughout Britain feel that they can’t effectively teach coding to children aged between eight and fifteen as they don’t have the right skills or tools.   The survey, conducted with 500 primary and secondary school teachers from schools* across the Britain, also revealed that 83% of teachers believe it’s important for the Department of Education (DOE) to provide...

Sophos has launched ‘Project Haunted House’, a continuous attack analysis and assessment of smart homes over the period of several weeks. With the aim of raising awareness of responsible IoT device use, a virtual smart home, simulated for this purpose and including original control and network infrastructures, has been set up and will be used as a potential target for attack and left exposed on the Internet.   The final results of the research project...

Over half (54%) of German IT and security staff confess to snooping on sensitive information about their company’s performance according to a recent study from One Identity of over 900 IT and security professionals from seven different countries. This is in contrast to the 42% of UK security and IT employees that confessed to snooping on sensitive corporate information. In addition, 80% of German IT and security staff admitted to accessing corporate data that is...

New research released today shows that millions may submit Subject Access Requests (SARs) to find out what personal information businesses hold on them after the General Data Protection Act goes live in May 2018. The research, conducted by Exonar, a leading provider of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data mapping and data inventory solutions, set out to identify what people know about how their privacy rights will change in May 2018. The findings showed that...

Simple curiosity, the lure of compensation pay-outs, and the chance to get their own back on companies who might have treated them badly: these are some of the reasons that will tempt consumers to use new rights coming in under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), allowing individuals to request access to all the personal information any organization is holding about them, new research suggests. Under the GDPR, a major shake-up of data privacy laws...

We all remember the disastrous effect of Wannacry ransomware attack which spread across the world infecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries. This is biggest cyber-attack to have hit the NHS IT systems in the UK so far. However, a recent report released by the National Audit Office claimed that the affected NHS trusts could have easily prevented the attack if cyber security recommendations were followed.   This news sparked a lot of...

There's something in the house…   Anyone with a passing knowledge of horror films will be familiar with the old “the (phone) call is coming from within the house” scene. Playing on our presumed safety within the confines of our home, this scene may be overused, but for IT professionals, it can ring horrifyingly true.   Arguably the most nightmarish occurrence for an IT professional is a data breach – a violation of an organisations'...

Okta, Inc., the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced the results of its first EMEA focused Businesses @ Work report, which uses anonymised data from Okta’s customer base to shed light on the way apps are used within the enterprise.   Zoom, a provider of enterprise video communications technology, is the fastest growing application within EMEA over the past six months, with 87.5 percent growth. In joint second place, Lucidchart, the...

Janrain®, the company that pioneered the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) category and market leader in Privacy by Design, today announced that it has obtained two of the industry’s most comprehensive third-party security certifications, and the only ones designed specifically for the cloud: 1) Cloud Security Alliance Level 2 (CSA) STAR Certification, which verifies that Janrain follows industry-best practices for securing cloud offerings, and 2) the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) 27018:2014 Certification  for handling personally identifiable...

It’s a familiar sight – the uniformed security guard patrolling the store on the lookout for shoplifters, ready to spring into action to stop thieves from getting away with the goods. Retailers have long known the value of proactive security to prevent loss and act as a deterrent in the real world. However, it seems that in the virtual world the retail security guard is out of shape, unable to keep up with the almost...