Category: News

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Nearly 370M IE users have just 6 weeks to upgrade In August 2014, Microsoft took Internet Explorer (IE) users by surprise when it announced that most had to…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: US, China take first steps toward cybersecurity cooperation The U.S. and China have reached an agreement on how to begin cooperating on cybersecurity, an issue that has caused…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Move over CISO: The Chief Data Officer may be sharing part of your job The CDO title has been around for almost six years as companies realized the…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: ​Open source encryption? Now Netherlands votes to help fund security projects While November’s Paris attacks prompted US and European governments to revisit the debate over back-door policies to…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: When it comes to Cloud security which is better? Heavy hand or gentle policing? To get a sense of what enterprises think about Cloud deployments and cloud security,…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: TeslaCrypt ransomware attacks are increasing Over the past two weeks security researchers have seen a surge in attacks using a file-encrypting ransomware program called TeslaCrypt, known for targeting…