What next for the Security Operations Center (SOC) in 2021?
The SOC sits at the beating heart of an organization’s IT and security functions. Its primary goal is to detect, respond, report on and, of course, prevent cyber-threats. In a world where individual data breaches are costed at a global average of nearly $3.9 million today, and ransomware infections can lead to losses in the tens of millions, an effective …
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Power to the people | ITProPortal
If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s that we must embrace change if we are to succeed as a society and an economy. In many ways, lots of us have had no choice. In the first lockdown, for example, about half of the UK workforce worked remotely – and many are not likely to go back to the …
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Three trends to watch in a post-Covid-19 world
What a difference a year makes. For a long time, remote and home working was looked upon with a degree of suspicion, particularly among verticals with longer histories, and certainly in those environments in which colleagues have needed to gather physically to make sure they’re all seeing the same thing. But, having been forced by Covid-19 to adapt and innovate …
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Why integrating digital into your DNA is a matter of survival for established enterprises
It’s simply no longer enough to rely on the ‘too big to fail’ principle. In 1958, large enterprises could expect to stay in the Standard and Poor (S&P) stock market index for more than half a century with little disruption from smaller companies. Over 60 years later, today, this has been significantly reduced to under eighteen years and unsurprisingly, this …
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Budgeting for SQL server downtime risk
“We need seven nines of availability. By the way, our budget is $14.” Customer with lofty High Availability (HA) goals and no real budget to support it, unfortunately, is a common scenario for IT consultants assisting customers with their business continuity and application protection. Unfortunately, high expectations without appropriate funding can prevent organizations from being prepared for a disaster when …
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Social justice commitments will be tested for sincerity
2020 saw the tech sector make grand symbolic gestures on social justice issues. As the changeover in US administration turns down the temperature on these policy discussions and a gridlocked Congress stalls any major movements, attention may begin to turn to how companies follow through on their commitments. As a result, 2021 may be a bigger year for company policy …
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Frictionless data: Escaping the gravity of regulation
If the big trend since the Snowden NSA data collection controversy has been the regulation of data, 2021 may see how big tech could try to set it free again. Data is born free Rules regulating data proliferated globally after the Snowden revelations, and to increasing fanfare. If the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau were alive today, he may as well write, …
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Best free VPN in 2021
Virtual private networks (VPN) have grown in popularity during the past decade because they offer privacy and anonymity online in a time when it is needed the most. This is due to various reasons – governments spying on you or censoring content you can access, streaming platforms geographically restricting their own content, ISPs throttling your connection, hackers trying to steal …
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SaaS subscriptions have seen a huge rise
In recent years, people have become less and less interested in owning software, preferring to subscribe to a service and only pay when they use it. According to a new report from subscription management platform provider Zuora, this has been a trend for the past decade, driving major growth among Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses. Polling more than 13,000 adults in 12 …
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Tuning the signal to noise ratio
Ask any security operations analyst about their biggest frustrations, and alert fatigue will be among them. They constantly struggle to identify the serious threat indicators while ignoring the false positives. Scientists and engineers have a name for this balance between useful and irrelevant data. It’s called the signal-to-noise ratio. The signal is the important data, while the noise is everything …
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