Incident response: 5 key steps

Originally written by Nick Ismail on Information Age   There’s much advice given about how to reduce the risk of an attack and the different preventative measures that organisations can put in place. However, with new technologies and routes of entry for attackers, preventive measures alone are not enough. In order to ensure all bases …

Turning IoT from hype to reality starts in the CEO’s office

Originally written by Nick Ismail on Information Age According to technology research firm Gartner, IoT is one of the top 10 strategic trends for companies in 2017. Unfortunately, Gartner also says that through 2018, 80% of IoT implementations will squander transformational opportunities by focusing on narrow use cases and analytics. Given its popularity, many businesses …

Skype, WhatsApp face increased privacy regulation in Europe

Skype, WhatsApp and services like them could soon fall under the same European Union regulations as telephone calls and SMS text messages, a leaked legislative draft reveals. Although Skype and WhatsApp can both be used to make voice calls and send text messages, they don’t fall under existing EU communications privacy legislation because they are …

BrandPost: 5 Steps to Securing Privileged Access for Outsourced IT

According to Gartner, IT outsourcing will be a $335 billion industry by 2019. Within the growing number of IT organizations adopting this approach to managing infrastructure, outsourced IT administrators are routinely granted broad privileges to accomplish even the most narrowly focused tasks. However, traditional privileged identity management solutions require organizations to create and manage identities …

5 recovery environments for tricky Windows 10 repairs

If you work with Windows systems, especially on the client side, you’ll occasionally need to bring an inoperable system back to life. The causes of this lamentable system state are as varied as the symptoms, which can range from an inability to boot Windows to a non-functional keyboard or display (hard to do anything in …

IDG Contributor Network: How to get business value by using mobile apps in your marketing

Since time immemorial, or at least since the earliest businesses started selling their services and products, marketers have been vying for the consumer’s attention. In this age of all-pervasive technology, never have brands been so integrated into the lives of consumers. And marketers who understand technology and its implications are able to use it to …

CIO Career Coach: 3 tips for job offer negotiations (video)

Welcome to episode No. 8 of «CIO Career Coach,» a video collaboration between Heller Search Associates, CIO.com and IDG.tv, the video division of CIO’s parent company, IDG. This first season of «CIO Career Coach» focuses how to run the most effective and successful job search. Whether you are a CIO, CTO, CISO, a vice president, …

IDG Contributor Network: Top 3 blockchain-based healthcare companies to watch in 2017

Game theory is the science of strategy. A branch of mathematics and economics that explores strategic situations across multiple stakeholders with different goals, whose actions can affect one another. Pioneering companies are changing the game with blockchain technologies. The new game of consumer interactions redefines transparency, immutability and security across industries. New game with new …

AirMap, DigiCert to issue digital certificates for drones

Drones will start getting digital identification certificates under a new service being launched on Tuesday that hopes to bring trust and verification to the skies. The Drone IDs will be SSL/TLS certificates from DigiCert issued through AirMap, a provider of drone flight information data, and will first be available to users of Intel’s Aero drone …

Alphabet's self-driving car may keep the steering wheel after all

Google’s parent company does not yet have the courage to build a car with no steering wheel or pedals, preferring to put its self-driving technology into existing cars from traditional auto manufacturers. Thats the conclusion of news site The Information in a report published Monday citing people close to Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle project. To read …