Enterprise IT security professionals faced increasingly sophisticated, stealthy and dynamic threats in 2012, but numerous surveys revealed that knowledge and understanding of the latest attack techniques are lacking in many organisations. ...
Tags: IT security, user security awareness, IT industry, cyber
Undoubtedly 2012 has been another big year for mobile. From high-profile launches to security scares, from hot tablets entering the enterprise to huge players trailing with their tails between their legs, mobile is certainly the direction ...
Tags: mobile, security scares, tablet, IT infrastructure
The BBC is is holding back on developing a bring your own device (BYOD) as it "does not like to be at the bleeding edge" of technology, the organisation's data and reporting improvement manager, Simon Griffiths, has told Computing. ...
Tags: BBC, BYOD, the bleeding edge
A group of UK workers are driving the use of consumer devices in the workplace and are risking being sacked as a result, according to research. A Unysis commissioned survey of over 350 workers and over 95 IT decision-makers in the UK, ...
Tags: UK, consumer devices, IT decision, IT
A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost estimate to the customer, and take orders. Yet another app called iPeople allows human ...
Tags: iPad, SAP, Apple, Enterprise Mobility
Buro Happold is a global engineering consultancy with 27 offices in seven countries. Founded in Bath in south-west England, Buro Happold has 1,500 staff worldwide and has worked on projects ranging from the O2 in London to the Louvre in Abu ...
Tags: Buro Happold, video system, work/life balance, IT operations
Simon Moorhead began his career as the Bank of England’s CIO with a baptism of fire, having started in November 2008 – just two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed and a year after Northern Rock was rescued by the government. ...
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The PC market in Western Europe is changing, which could transform the way businesses procure PCs. The latest PC market share data from Gartner shows Acer grew 15.3% to become western Europe's second biggest PC supplier. Asus grew 42.3% ...
Tags: Western Europe, PC market, Dell, IT consumerisation
Security supplier Sophos has combined its endpoint protection and unified threat management (UTM) products into a single physical or virtual appliance. Sophos claims UTM 9 will cut the time and resources IT teams have to spend on ...
Tags: Sophos, UTM, Endpoint Security, Computer Products
Securing Good Technology's mobile device management (MDM) offerings while exploring future tech developments is CTO Nicko van Someren's top priorities. Speaking to CIO Australia during the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on the Gold Coast, ...
Tags: Good Technology, MDM, CTO, Nicko van Someren
Current business security models fail to prepare for cyber threats in the face of highly sophisticated, powerful cyber attack tools that are no longer the preserve of nation states, as they filter down to a wider community of attackers. ...
Tags: security models, hackers, cyber attacks, Cyber criminals
The year 2012 will go down in history as the year when people voted with their wallets and decided that tablets are good enough for work. The success of tablets has driven people to bring their own devices to work. Supporting these ...
Tags: tablets, managed desktop estate, PC suppliers, desktop virtualisation, IT
In a September survey of 599 C-level executives and IT decision-makers in 19 countries, managed services provider Avanade found that 61 percent of companies now report that employees are using personal devices in the workplace. More than ...
Tags: Windows 8, Business Use, Tablets, Smartphones
Cloud computing is an increasingly significant segment of the IT outsourcing sector, but has a tipping point really been reached or are we one large data breach away from an about-turn? The cloud currently represents only a fraction of ...
Tags: Cloud Driving, Computer Products, IT Outsourcing, Outlook
Microsoft has launched a tablet computer - dubbed the Surface - running on its Windows 8 operating system (OS). Microsoft announced the Windows 8 tablet last night in a bid to take on rival tablet manufacturers Apple, Samsung and Google. ...
Tags: Microsoft, tablet computer, Windows 8 operating system