Enterprise IT A Spark of recognition: Databricks’ Dael Williamson on wet work, finops, data maturity Look at Dael Williamson’s profile and you might wonder, briefly, how he wound up as a Chief Technology Officer: There’s the degree in molecular biology and the masters in structural biology and the research position in structural bioinformatics; here is someone perhaps trying to save the world, who
Cybersecurity Pentagon CIOs slapped over cloud security by auditors days before 3TB of emails exposed Days before the exposure this week of over three terabytes of military emails owing to misconfigured Azure services, the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s Inspector General had warned Pentagon CIOs that their teams were not properly reviewing documentation designed to ensure military cloud security – and running systems with unmitigated
Cybersecurity IBM high speed file transfer software exploited by hackers A pre-auth RCE in IBM Aspera Faspex is being exploited in the wild
Cloud AWS EC2 permissions configuration change draws cheers, confusion What... what's happening here exactly?
Enterprise IT This major water utility has £35m for help on change delivery Digital transformation means cultural shifts too...
Financial Services The Big Interview: How Goldman Sachs built a cloud for financial data Lots of modular serverless AWS, lots of open source... We sat down with the team.
Cloud Uber bites the cloud bullet after "reimagining" its infrastructure: Goodbye 100k+ servers Oracle, Google are big winners...
Enterprise IT National Grid seeks £5m of external help to become “agile digital” organisation Energy powerhouse eyes Agile at scale; help with DevSecOps.
Cybersecurity Securing cloud-native architecture at scale: From runtime to remediation The way we instrument for security doesn't require us to put out 25 different agents
Enterprise IT Google unveils ChatGPT rival “Bard” – could put it in front of billions, as AI wars heat up Don't bet against the company with 90%+ search engine market share.
Cybersecurity Government “must avoid a ban on ransomware payments” say insurers "If a ban is considered the Government should be ready to step in..."
ESG/ClimateTech Tech firms without sustainability data have a target on their backs Firms are "increasingly and competitively focussed" on sustainability...
Featured NYSE left with tough controls questions after disaster recovery error 4,341 trades cancelled. But why does DR system need manual shutdown?
Cybersecurity Critical controller bug could trigger traffic chaos: Software vendor ignores CISA outreach One of 14 new advisories on vulnerable ICS software...
Enterprise IT The API economy continues to boom – as aviation API hub goes live Security testing remains exceptionally low however...
Cybersecurity UK security vetting delays mount, as IT system faces "regular outages" One third of “Developed Vetting” security clearances now take over 180 days...
Enterprise IT After 20 years at Google, there were no flowers, no card, and no goodbye Ruthless mechanistic efficiency rules in "Squid Game" firings...
Enterprise IT This UK government CDIO role has a salary of £54k: We're a little dismayed A Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) role in a UK government agency is being advertised with the startling low salary for a C-suite position of £54,551-£62,118 – even as it eyes ambitious digital transformation. The CDIO at the Vehicle Certification Agency will be responsible for leading a
Featured A $1bn fat finger helps drive Citi's $13.6bn IT spending plans Overhaul comes after howling error in 2020 blamed on legacy software, bad training...
Cybersecurity CircleCI hackers grabbed customer tokens and keys, CTO admits, amid warning on SaaS secrets Infiltrators dodged antivirus, stole encryption keys from a running process
Featured We analysed 90,000+ software vulnerabilities: Here's what we learned Can you guess the product with the most CVEs in 2022?
Enterprise IT 2023’s first mega tech deal is in -- and a sign of things to come in the database world It could well be a year of significant database consolidation...