The beautiful game is secure in the cloud
London: Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, protected UEFA’s website and key logistics applications from repeated attacks throughout UEFA EURO 2012. Thanks to Interoute’s reinforced private cloud, millions of football fans around the world enjoyed a perfect online experience throughout the tournament, with an uninterrupted 31,000 web pages per second served to audiences at peak times.
Leading worldwide Financial Institution Uses centrify to secure access, improve auditing, and manage user accounts
SUNNYVALE, Calif., and BRACKNELL, UK: Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to on-premise and cloud-based systems, mobile devices and applications, has announced that HSBC Bank UK is deploying the Centrify Suite to centrally secure system access to HSBC’s distributed IT infrastructure.
...UK workers feel Online privacy is threatened, but gap exists between fears and actions
BYOD gains rapid acceptance, with 22% drop in enterprises that prohibit it
London, UK: Eight out of 10 UK consumers who use a computer, tablet PC or smartphone for work activities feel their online privacy is threatened, but many persist with actions and attitudes that put their privacy and security at risk, according to a survey of 1,000 UK office workers by global non-profit IT association ISACA. ISACA also conducted a separate survey of more than 4,500 of its members from 83 countries, including 980 in Europe. The majority of respondents say that the risk of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) outweighs the benefits, yet year over year, but there has been a 22-point percentage drop in enterprises that prohibit BYOD. With the increasingly blurry line between work and personal devices, behaviours that put privacy and security at risk have the potential to impact enterprises.
Study shows distractions may alleviate boredom and improve drone operators’ performance.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. On its surface, operating a military drone looks a lot like playing a video game: Operators sit at workstations, manipulating joysticks to remotely adjust a drone’s pitch and elevation, while grainy images from the vehicle’s camera project onto a computer screen. An operator can issue a command to fire if an image reveals a hostile target, but such adrenaline-charged moments are few and far between.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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