Welcome to the community: Deriving more value from Oracle in the cloud

Are organizations getting enough value from their current cloud hosting solutions? It’s a big question and one that is central to the ethos of a lot of challenger brands.   According to a recent study, only 37 percent of businesses are getting the full value they expected from cloud technology. So, when it comes to choosing a provider, how can …

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2020 was a record year for online scams

During 2020, there were 15 times more online scams than in the previous year, a new report from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claims. Basing the report on the results of the organization’s Active Cyber Defence program, the NCSC claims to have mitigated more than 700,000 online scams last year, which includes 1.4 million URLs.  The program heavily …

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Half of businesses feel vulnerable to bot attacks

Bot attacks are a major threat and many business owners are fearful of the consequences, a new report from cybersecurity firm HUMAN claims. Based on a poll of 425 cybersecurity and IT decision-makers with application security knowledge and responsibilities for their organizations, the report claims nearly half believe their company is susceptible to a sophisticated bot attack. Almost all (90 …

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More and more businesses are embracing AI

The Covid-19 pandemic has made more businesses move into Artificial Intelligence (AI), but the same old barriers to adoption persist. This is according to a new paper from IBM, which states that 43 percent of businesses increased the rollout of AI due to the pandemic. Compared to last year, at the height of the pandemic, 2021 has remained relatively flat …

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Users are more concerned about online privacy following pandemic

The pandemic has made consumers in the UK more worried about their online privacy, a new report by digital identity firm Callsign is saying.  Polling 2,000 UK adults, Callsign says almost a third (32 percent) are more worried than before the pandemic, and of those people – another third say it’s because they don’t know what data the companies are …

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Mobile phishing has seen a huge rise in some industries

Despite Mobile Device Management (MDM) being deployed to “significantly” more devices last year, mobile phishing exposure among financial services has almost doubled. A new report from integrated endpoint-to-cloud security company Lookout, based on behavioral analysis of telemetry data from nearly 200 million mobile devices, 140 million apps and more than four million new URLs a day., found that there had …

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5 things to make you look like a YouTube Influencer

Where rockstars and professional athletes used to be the dream career for many, YouTube has created a platform that allows everyday people to publish videos across every conceivable genre and become famous influencers. Doing what you love has the potential to be lucrative if you can get a sizable audience, but how do you get your channel off the ground? …

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Are password managers safe? Here’s how to use them

If you’re a small business owner, you’ve no doubt heard reports that introducing a password manager across your organization could be one of the most effective steps you can take to safeguard your data—and that of your customers. But you may understandably have concerns when it comes to handing over this level of control to a piece of software. Are …

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Why value public sector data? And how?

In the last year or more, we have heard the Prime Minister time and time again declare that Government is “following the science”, whilst millions of citizens have found themselves spending time staring at charts and monitoring trends. During this time, the link between the data that government collects and the outcomes it drives has suddenly assumed a place at …

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