For many years we’ve been hyped with the cloud generation of computing with the likes of giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, VMware and Oracle to name a few in the ring. But moving entirely to the cloud has some considerations to take into account and a Cloud Risk Assessment is to be conducted to analyse…
DetailsEvery once in a while it’s good to take stock of a situation. A projected 1.25 billion Android users for 2015 (according to Gartner) is such a situation. Either your organisation is already an Android shop or it is likely to become one in the near future. A plethora of software apps for the Android…
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Instead of (or as well as) trying to sneak past a firewall with a few innocent-looking data packets, the DOS attack tries to cripple a network
DetailsMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a new threat for humans. Also known as ‘camel flu’, it is a viral respiratory illness first identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, where so far it has caused over 280 deaths. Since then it has spread to other countries. As of late June 2015, South Korea was the…
DetailsFor business executives and marketers, as well as IT departments, the following paragraphs on the secrets of cryptography hold a useful lesson. First a quick recap on what this is all about. AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard, used to keep your data confidential. The 128 and 256 numbers refer to the size of the…
DetailsWhat does it take to get PC or server backups to work properly and bring computers back to operational status?
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