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Why cloud needs a new approach to cybersecurity
How secure is your cloud environment? If you’ve outsourced to a managed service provider (MSP) and you’re referring us to its SLA for an answer, we suggest you think again. Cloud-based data and applications might be hosted remotely, but responsibility for security doesn’t stop at the data centre’s front gate. In reducing complexity, costs and the burden of local support, cloud is rightly becoming today’s predominant business platform, but CIOs who believe that outsourcing the infrastructure... -
Technology winners and losers, post-COVID-19
As opposed to, say, the travel or restaurant industries, the tech sector has weathered the most disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well. But that doesn’t mean that business has gone smoothly as if nothing happened — or that trends haven’t accelerated or been disrupted by the crisis. While it’s a bit early to know whether shifts in usage and IT tactics will remain permanent, some corners of the computing business have clearly seen a boost, while others have fallen in use,...