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The first Thursday of May is dedicated to the importance of creating passwords every year. This year,  World Password Day  falls on the 7th of May, and we seem no closer to reducing the number of passwords we need to remember. David Higgins, Technical Director, CyberArk commented, "This  World Password Day  takes place in the shadow of a ‘new normal’ existence for much of the world’s population, characterised by soaring levels of home work. "This has resulted in a blurring of previously distinct lines between work and home devices – with more remote workers are using personal devices to access work systems – opening up a vast new potential attack surface. Combine that with common employee practices like saving passwords in browsers or reusing passwords and this new landscape becomes a playground for attackers. "Effective authentication of all devices now becomes even more crucial in order to protect not only personally identifiable information (PII) but the cri...

The challenges facing today’s CIOs now include helping their businesses recover and restart in the wake of a global pandemic. To that end, IBM announced at its Think Digital conference a broad range of new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities and services that are designed to help CIOs automate their IT infrastructures. Market intelligence firm IDC predicts that, by 2024, enterprises that are powered by AI will be respond to customers, competitors, regulators, and partners 50% faster than those that are not using AI*. IBM is addressing this phenomenon by unveiling IBM Watson AIOps, a new offering that uses AI to automate how enterprises self-detect, diagnose and respond to IT anomalies in real time. Watson AIOps enables organisations to introduce automation at the infrastructure level and is designed to help CIOs better predict and shape future outcomes, focus resources on higher-value work and be better prepared to build more responsive and intelligen...

IBM has announced new services and solutions to help enterprises speed their transition to edge computing in the 5G era at its Think Digital conference. This effort combines IBM’s experience and expertise in multicloud environments with Red Hat’s open source technology. Red Hat became part of IBM last year in one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time. For organisations worldwide, the rollout of wireless 5G telecommunications networks, which bring blazing speed and extremely low latency—and minimal transmission delays—to mobile data, is designed to accelerate the utility of edge computing. With new edge services, IBM Business Partners and multicloud solutions from IBM, enterprises will be able to tap into the potential of 5G to support crucial uses like emergency response, robotic surgery or connected-vehicle safety features that benefit from the few milliseconds latency saved by not having to send workloads to a centralised cloud, the company said. “The conv...

LINE Corporation has chosen Cloudera , the enterprise data cloud company, to manage its data lifecycle with a platform that is built on open source technologies and will future proof its journey to the cloud. The move will support the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-based business and its Data Science and Engineering Center (DSEC). LINE aims to bring information, services, and people closer together. Based in Japan, LINE Corporation is dedicated to the mission of Closing the Distance, bringing together information, services and people. The LINE messaging app launched in June 2011 and since then has grown into a diverse, global ecosystem. With the LINE messaging app as the cornerstone, LINE’s business encompasses mobile-first services—including communication, content, and entertainment—advertising, as well as strategic businesses in fintech, AI, and other domains. DSEC, on the other hand, needs to handle a large volume and variety of data and deliver insights to m...

by Rick Vanover, Senior Director Product Strategy at Veeam Software The demand for data security is more important than ever before. According to a survey done by CrowdStrike on global security attitude, the number of organisations falling for supply chain attacks around the world have increased from 14% to 39%. As we progress in the age of technology with tighter and robust security measures, a ransomware attack is still one of the biggest challenges faced by industrial enterprises. Today, hackers are using people's fears and confusion to create cyberthreats while leveraging on the coronavirus situation – security risks such as system paralysis, data loss, and business interruption due to phishing attacks and malware have been emerging over the last few months. A diversity of threats There is incredible fragmentation in the types of threats in play today. The threats come in a number of different ways, behave a number of different ways and even attack differently. As an example, ...