Is WordPress the way forward for enterprise content management?
Between its WordPress.org and WordPress.com brands, Automattic powers around 25% of the websites online today, which equates to approximately 16 billion pages every single month. It uses open-source software, which has facilitated the growth of a large community of WordPress experts specializing in various fields. Web hosting company Pressidium is one such specialized company that offers a selection of managed …
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Embracing boundaryless working in the new normal
Enate, a Cheltenham-based SaaS company, successfully moved the entire team to remote working shortly before the Government-enforced lockdown in March. As this starts to feel more ‘normal’, Kit Cox, CEO of Enate, considers the new, boundaryless work environment. As the months go by and more of us are adapting to our new working-from-home environments and routines, Kit Cox, CEO of …
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Garmin paid for WastedLocker ransomware decryption key
Fitness giant Garmin paid out for a WastedLocker decryption key after a ransomware attack encrypted its systems and crippled its services. The firm suffered a worldwide service outage on July 23, which prevented users from uploading exercise data to Garmin Connect and also affected aviation navigation service FlyGarmin. Although the company initially remained reticent, the incident was widely rumored to …
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Getting back in the desk chair and transitioning back to the office
This year has seen changes no one could predict 12 months ago in terms of how the workplace not only needed to adapt, but in many cases was rendered unnecessary. The public sector has had the biggest challenge in the last few months, striving to care for people suffering from Covid-19 and keeping the country moving (but staying at home) …
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Extracting more business insights from big data with object storage
The rapid data growth in manufacturing and similar industries has created huge pools of data which organizations can draw from to refine their processes, manage risk, and drive product innovation. Key business decisions are increasingly being made based on these big data insights. As a result, having ready access to retained data so it can be quickly and easily analyzed …
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Why every technology decision needs a trusted technical advisor
Over the past 15 years of working in the technology industry, I’ve been involved with many technology and platform investment decisions—both on the buyer and vendor sides. I’ve watched these choices become increasingly business-critical for organizations over time, with the wrong platform decision capable of negatively impacting ROI for the company in addition to unleashing major headaches for IT and …
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Reducing the hidden costs and mitigating security risks of third-party contractors
Organizations are constantly on the lookout for new ways to stay one step ahead of the competition by increasing their speed of innovation and improving overall customer satisfaction. Often that means they will enlist third parties to both augment their services and capabilities in an effort to gain a competitive advantage and improve profitability as well as gain skill sets. …
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British businesses increasingly prioritise data privacy and security
More and more British businesses have prioritised data privacy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, new research has found. A study by security firm Netwrix discovered that the majority of the UK organisations are concerned about security-related issues and plan to enforce cybersecurity awareness among employees. The pandemic appears to have helped engineer a major change in the IT …
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What business continuity lessons can be learned from disaster movies?
Disruption, a word which many businesses are very much used to now, can often have disastrous effects on productivity, output, company reputation, and ultimately the bottom line. On the other hand, that which we would call a ‘disaster’ in the enterprise world in most cases pales in comparison to the sensational disaster scenarios we’re used to seeing on the silver …
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Cybersecurity skills gap worsens for fourth consecutive year
The cybersecurity skills gap has worsened for a fourth year running, according to a new report from the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The report states that the skills shortage affects 70 percent of all organizations, resulting in an increased workload for security staff, unfilled open job openings and an inability to utilize security technologies …
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