While good planning and processes are at the heart of business continuity and disaster recovery, technology can accelerate the benefits as well. We live in an age of cloud computing and smartphones. Both can be used to help an organisation get back on its feet after incidents, or simply ride them out without severe or…
The big selling point about virtualisation, at least in disaster recovery terms, is the power it gives to handle single points of IT failure. The idea is to distribute applications the right way over a number of servers; then if one physical machine crashes, another one should be available to ensure that applications can continue…
If you haven’t seen it, you’ve probably heard about it: the sticky note on the computer screen with the account login and password for all to see. While this archetypally bad behaviour has security officers recoiling in horror, there are also other less obvious forms of password vulnerability that affect many organisations. Fundamental problems that…
Is there a relationship between the Internet control and censorship policy in China, and the country’s economic success? Chinese Internet censorship has meant that access has been denied to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many others (Wikipedia estimates over 2,600 websites in total). Meanwhile the Chinese economy continues to grow. While the jury is still out…
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a trending and serious issue when it comes to Cyber Security across many industries in particular the banking and financial sectors. In a DDoS attack Botnets (usually referred to as a “Zombie army”) bombards a server or a network with thousands of system requests sent from infected…
One of the big things about cloud computing is the potential for cutting costs and saving capital. On demand storage and Software as a Service (SaaS) paved the way with applications stretching from cloudified accountancy to sales force and customer relationship management. ‘All things shall move to the cloud’ is the mantra of many, and…