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Cyber sector kingpin Check Point is to expand its CloudGuard cloud security platform after announcing it is to acquire Spectral, an Israel-based startup of “developer-first” security tools, for an undisclosed sum. Less than two years after its inception, Spectral – which focuses on code safety and trust and code scanning – has grown into a… Continue reading Check Point buys Spectral to safeguard cloud development

One of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts is in the throes of migrating the digital records of millions of its patients to the Microsoft Azure public cloud, as part of a push to bolster the performance and resilience of its IT infrastructure. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT), which employs 20,000 staff across seven sites… Continue reading Leeds NHS Trust moves millions of patient records to the Microsoft Azure public cloud

The personal data of 4,142 children and families of serving UK armed forces personnel was exposed last year in a data breach at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), one of seven personal data-related incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) during the 2020-2021 reporting year. The breach, which was revealed in the MoD’s Annual… Continue reading Data on children of armed forces personnel exposed in breach

Backup can become complex as the years go by, especially when your data is expanding by 20% a year. That’s what had happened to France-based industrial refrigeration specialist Clauger, which rationalised three complex legacy backup systems onto a single Cohesity multi-node backup system and gained rapid search and restore, with much smoother management processes overall.… Continue reading Refrigeration firm freezes legacy backup for one Cohesity cluster

Thousands of technical privacy roles are going unfilled all over the world, leaving organisations dangerously exposed to breaches of compliance laws and cyber security incidents, according to an ISACA study marking the annual Data Privacy Day cyber supplier marketing opportunity. The technology association’s latest Privacy in practice 2022 report draws together data gathered in a… Continue reading Cyber skills gap affecting data privacy practice, finds ISACA

Imperial College London is working with the Abu Dhabi-based Technology Innovation Institute to create an operating system (OS) that is intended to change the way datacentre operators secure their cloud technology stacks. The two organisations are embarking on a three-year programme of research that they claim will culminate in the creation of a “trustworthy” cloud… Continue reading Imperial College London embarks on cloud security research push with Abu Dhabi tech hub

European businesses may have been pre-warned about China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), but levels of preparedness – and perhaps even willingness – remain far less clear as we enter 2022. PIPL in its most recent guise was released in August 2021, coming into effect on 1 November. At that point, China’s Standing Committee… Continue reading European businesses plot their next steps into China

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission for DR is to return IT operations to an acceptable level of performance as quickly as possible following a disruptive event. So, upon completion of a… Continue reading Setting strategy and developing plans

PCIe connectivity has gained an increased profile in enterprise data storage in recent years, in particular with the emergence and takeover of mainstream flash storage by NVMe-based hardware. For decades, data storage connectivity centred on SCSI-based protocols (eg, SAS and SATA). And when NVMe flash came along, with I/O potentially boosted by orders of magnitude… Continue reading Look out for PCIe gen 5 drives in 2022