Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public …
US charges eight with multi-million-dollar cyber-crime
U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multi-million-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts …
Google buys Waze and puts the squeeze on Facebook and Apple
With Google set to buy app-maker Waze, the question is whether Google actually needs the crowd-sourced traffic app or is …
Emirates Towers reaches capacity as Reseller launches Partner Excellence Conference
CPI Technology welcomed a heaving crowd inside the Jumeirah Emirates Towers today as it kicked off the 2013 Reseller Partner Excellence Conference and Awards.
Virgin Radio hack could lead to targeted attacks on users, says researcher
Last week’s attack on the Virgin Radio Dubai website could have provided cyber-criminals with a springboard from which to launch …
IT on the fly
The art of quickly building, then dismantling, IT operations, so you can always do your job — even when disaster …
By definition
There may have been a few people who spat out their coffee the morning they read that EMC had unveiled …
The spaghetti incident
In 2009, DP World in the UAE decided to set up its own IT department separate from the shared services …
Ticking time bomb
The last year has shown more than ever how careful businesses need to be with their data. However, recent reports …
How to protect your PC from PRISM surveillance
Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and …
The essentiality of optimising networks
Global demand for advanced broadband technology remains strong. In the last two decades, the Internet has become a necessity in …
Apple’s Cook: iOS 7 is the ‘biggest change to iOS’ since iPhone’s arrival
Apple on Monday took the wraps off iOS 7, revealing a dramatic new design that sheds six-year-old interface elements, and …
WWDC: The wait is nearly over – Apple unveils new Mac Pro
“Can’t innovate any more, my a**.” Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller’s in-your-face statement essentially sums up what Apple thinks …
WWDC: New MacBook Airs offer all-day battery life, better graphics performance
If Apple has anything to say about it, the future of the notebook will be long and healthy. And it …
Zscaler fixes BYOD risk with new mobile traffic cloud filtering
Zscaler has added mobile security to its arsenal of cloud-based security services, which the firm is pitching as a flexible …
Prism leaker steps forward, cites ‘massive surveillance machine’
The person responsible for disclosing details on the growth of U.S. government surveillance programmes that exploded into public view last …
Gartner: 7 major trends forcing IT security pros to change
Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a “nexus of forces” that include …
Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS goes live
After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat OpenShift Online platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, …
Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says
Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy …
IBM to acquire SoftLayer Technologies
IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition …