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Mastering your Multi-Cloud Connectivity

In recent years, multi-cloud infrastructure has emerged as the solution of choice for over 90% of companies, with 58% working with at least 4 and 15% working with over 10. Avoiding vendor lock-in, risks around single cloud reliability, and the need for price-sensitive deployments has boosted the desire for a multi-cloud strategy.

28 July, 2021/0 Comments/by Sebastian Jesson-Ward

Cyber Fraud, Cyber Security, Security

Universities ransom hacks again

Ukrainian police have arrested members of a notorious ransomware gang that recently targeted American universities. The Ukraine National Police said it had worked with Interpol and the US and South Korean authorities to charge six members of the Ukraine-based Cl0p hacker group who are allegedly responsible for a half billion-dollar cyber crimewave.

22 July, 2021/0 Comments/by Cara Williams

Outsourcing, Supplier Selection

Jedi Cloud Outsourcing Challenged

Former US president’s Donald Trump’s spat with Amazon founder squillionaire Jeff Bezos raised its head recently after the US military sent a $10 billion computer contact back to the drawing board.

14 July, 2021/0 Comments/by David McGee

Security

Charming Kittens target Higher Education

Cyber Security Education: Iranian hackers posed as academics at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies to conduct an online espionage campaign targeting experts on the Middle East. The hacking attempt was carried out by a group called itself ‘Charming Kitten’ and are widely thought to be operating behalf of Iran’s shadowy Revolutionary Guard. Iran — […]

6 July, 2021/0 Comments/by David McGee

Consultancy, Outsourcing, Supplier Selection

Should Managed Service Providers Face Regulation?

The British government has vowed to create a legally binding cybersecurity framework for managed service providers (MSPs). The supply chain review comes in the wake of high-profile events like the SolarWinds compromise.

25 June, 2021/0 Comments/by David McGee

5G, Connectivity

India Expands submarine cables

Indian telecoms conglomerate Reliance Jio will build two submarine cables to help it satisfy the country’s appetite for data. One of the cables is called IEX, short for India-Europe-Express, and will head west from Mumbai and connect to the Middle East and North Africa before landfalling in Italy. The cable may push further into Europe and down into Eritrea on the African continent.

17 June, 2021/0 Comments/by David McGee

Connectivity

Does the Internet Influence Democracy

In the old days of military coups, the power-mad colonel would storm the presidential palace and send his goons to take over the TV and Radio stations. Then a sombre officer appears on TV to declare the military had taken charge. To achieve a fig leaf of respectability the officer would offer a return to democratic rule at some suitably distant date in the future.

9 June, 2021/0 Comments/by Sebastian Jesson-Ward