Is Cloud being misold? Cloud tends to be marketed as the solution for all ICT efficiency and delivery problems. This gives companies the impression that they simply sign up to a supplier and they’ll do the work. But on closer inspection you’ll find this simply isn’t the case and nor is it advisable. Take a […]
The customer may be king but they’re also likely to be the cause of cloud security failures in the future, according to analyst firm Gartner, which predicts 95 percent of public cloud security issues will be down to the customer, rather than the provider, by 2020. Unfortunately, the cloud is still seen as a panacea […]
Are our banks doing enough to fend off cyber attacks? Last week HSBC again succumbed to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack that took down its customer banking websites. I say again because the bank suffered a similar problem four years ago and yet little seems to have changed. Yes, the bank was quick to […]
A potential mine of rich information on user habits; a repository of data that has the power to transform business; the lifeblood of the cloud and a major stimulus of innovation: big data makes some big promises. Unfortunately it’s these benefits that have seen a lack of focus on the drawbacks. For instance, little attention […]
When it comes to the Cloud, the financial sector is dragging its heels. Data protection, breach notification and regulatory change are seeing adoption lag, and these security issues, together with legacy backend infrastructure, is stymying innovation among the incumbents. But look a little closer and you’ll notice new entrants are using the Cloud to steal […]