Choosing a web hosting provider: 5 common mistakes to avoid
Choosing the best web hosting provider for your company’s website can feel like a chore, especially once you discover how many different services there are vying for your custom across different hosting plans. Each will tell you why they’re the best choice for your business, too, and as with the best website builders, you need to get your decision right …
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Debunking common myths of developing blockchain applications
Many developers are on the fence about pursuing a career in blockchain, which is unsurprising given the industry’s deeply ingrained misconceptions. Largely influenced by the media’s role in spotlighting scams that aren’t related to the blockchain technology itself but leverage common blockchain buzzwords – as well as the circulation of misinformation within blockchain communities in forums and on social media …
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Common challenges a FinOps team will solve
When organizations begin making the transition from on-premises IT infrastructure to public cloud, their financial IT operations change as fundamentally as their infrastructure does. The largest conceptual paradigm shift is that from large, infrequent capital outlays for IT infrastructure procurement to hourly operational expenses. In the former case, most organizations have a structured procurement process that requires various levels of …
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Most common cybersecurity mistakes that companies make
An increasing number of companies worldwide have come to realize that cybersecurity is an important factor in the running of a successful business. Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2015. As a result of this knowledge, companies have …
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The 7-step checklist to avoid common cloud misconfigurations
Another week and another cloud misconfiguration has hit the headlines. It seems as though a day doesn’t go by where the news cycle doesn’t contain a story relating to a leaky storage bucket or accidentally exposed database due to a security misconfiguration within infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Noted as an end-user mistake, studies show 90 percent of UK data breaches were a …
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Ransomware insurance is becoming more common
Ransomware insurance is becoming more commonplace in the UK as a means of protecting against the financial impact of an attack, but concerns have been raised in some quarters. As per a BBC report, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the concept, highlighting the value in being able to cover the costs of the ransom payment. However, there …
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Five common misconceptions about observability
The rise of cloud-native environments has meant that traditional approaches to monitoring and managing application performance are becoming less and less effective. As a result, digital teams have begun leaning towards new approaches, built on the three pillars of observability – metrics, logs, and traces. Rather than trying to ‘monitor’ their environments, the idea is to design them to be …
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Insider attacks now more common than external hacks
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to adopt remote working, insider threats have been more common than external attacks. This is according to the 2020 Netwrix Cyber Threats report, based on a poll of more than 900 IT professionals, which states that four of the top six cybersecurity incidents are caused by employees: administration mistakes, sharing of sensitive data, …
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