Europe (European) stories - Page 76
2017 Equifax breach: Impact and lessons learned
Mon, 2nd Oct 2017
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breach prevention
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cybersecurity
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security breaches
Digital Shadows VP, Rick Holland discusses the recent breach, its impact to Equifax and what other organisations can learn from it.
Europol: Legislation overhaul needed as cybercrime is ‘unprecedented’
Sat, 30th Sep 2017
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malware
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ddos
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ransomware
A new report from Europol has revealed cybercrime is running rampant with ransomware reigning supreme - and a crackdown on criminals is essential.
VIRTUS reveals plans for biggest data centre campus in London
Fri, 29th Sep 2017
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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dc
VIRTUS Data Centres has announced its rapid expansion continues with plans for two new adjacent facilities on a single campus near Stockley Park.
Republic of Sierra Leone to become Africa’s first ever ‘smart country’
Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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virtualisation
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smart cities
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data analytics
Sierra Leone has entered a nationwide digitisation program that its president is asserting will forever change its global digital standing.
New data logging service allows actionable cybersecurity insights
Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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storage
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firewalls
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network infrastructure
Palo Alto's new service is for machine learning & advanced analytics in order to correlate potential threats & prevent successful cyber breaches.
Cloud services growing faster than any IT market today – and tomorrow
Thu, 28th Sep 2017
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public cloud
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iaas
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microsoft
The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public cloud market surged 31 percent in 2016 to reach US$22.1 billion, up from $16.8 billion in 2015.
Hackers steal data through ‘easy back door’ in massive Deloitte breach
Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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firewalls
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casb
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breach prevention
In just the last few weeks we’ve had three major breaches go public, and experts say this one could have been easily prevented.
Gartner: The battle for the cloud has not even started yet
Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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saas
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paas
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iaas
Andrew White has an interesting framework to look at the battle for the cloud today and where he thinks it will go in the not too distant future.
Misco opts with Oracle NetSuite because of local EU data centres
Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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fintech
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financial systems
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supply chain & logistics
According to Misco, the decision was made easy given NetSuite’s range of data centres across Europe and in particular the Netherlands.
VASCO and Nuvias expand agreement from two EMEA countries to 21
Wed, 27th Sep 2017
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cybersecurity
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resellers
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distributors
The rapid rise of cybercrime has been one of the main drivers in the expansion of this existing distributor agreement.
Two becomes one with Workspace Technology acquisition
Mon, 25th Sep 2017
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hyperscale
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daas
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colocation
Workspace Technology recently announced the acquisition of Server Room Maintenance LLP and the merging of its offices.
More than a quarter of UK councils infected with ransomware
Mon, 25th Sep 2017
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malware
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firewalls
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ransomware
Over a quarter of British councils hit by ransomware, yet no ransoms paid due to effective backups, reports Barracuda Networks.
Businesses paid $301 million to ransomware hackers last year
Fri, 22nd Sep 2017
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malware
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dr
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ransomware
Datto has revealed the results of its latest study of ransomware around the world that are concerning to say the very least.
Vexata emerges after 3 years in ‘stealth mode’ to launch revolutionary product
Fri, 22nd Sep 2017
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storage
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network infrastructure
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emc
The company was founded by a flash-storage executive who left Dell EMC in 2013 because he sought to solve an underlying active-data problem.
Data centre infrastructure will 'need new approaches' to cope with new tech
Thu, 21st Sep 2017
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uc
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hyperscale
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iot
COBO President Brad Booth asserts new technologies like AI, 5G, and the IoT will require significant changes to data centre infrastructure.
England’s second largest police force still reliant on vulnerable Windows XP
Thu, 21st Sep 2017
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cybersecurity
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windows
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infoblox
The Greater Manchester police have revealed more than one in five of its computers are still running an OS that has been unsupported since 2014.
First half of 2017 sees 164% increase in stolen or compromised records
Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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breach prevention
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cybersecurity
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healthtech
There were 918 data breaches that led to a staggering 1.9 billion records being compromised around the world in the first half of 2017 alone.
5 data centre infrastructure management myths debunked
Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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virtualisation
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Nlyte's Mark Gaydos exposes five common myths surrounding data centre infrastructure and warns to not succumb to them.
South Africa overtakes other nations in leapfrog up cloud curve
Wed, 20th Sep 2017
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digital transformation
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iaas
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cloud services
The country may have been late to the party when it came to cloud strategies, but the Routed MD says this has resulted in some positives.
Equifax and its 143m customers just the ‘first known victims’
Tue, 19th Sep 2017
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cybersecurity
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flexera
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security vulnerabilities
Equifax breach reveals well-known vulnerability, patch available long before attack, says Flexera. More hacks likely to come.