CISO
The vital role the CISO has to play in the boardroom
"As the collective business sector starts to awaken to the size and scale of the risk, the battle for exceptional CISOs will be fierce..."
Cisco
It’s not always DNS… Cisco snaps up Greek BGP specialist
Deal puts Greece's technology talent -- and ongoing Border Gateway Protocol challenges -- back on the map.
News
Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure
Fire-fighting was not helped by Global Switch’s fire suppression system “running out of water”. The incident also introduced water and soot contamination. Google Cloud’s affected racks had to be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned and reassembled before they could be restarted.
Microsoft
Three years after Slack's complaint, European Commission confirms formal Teams bundling investigation
Slack had alleged that Microsoft “created a weak, copycat product and tied it to their dominant Office product, force installing it and blocking its removal"
News
Kaspersky reports third exploited Apple zero day in 5 weeks
"Operation Triangulation" continues after the Russian security firm was hacked by a sophisticated adversary using a zero-click iOS chain...
banks
HSBC breached this banking rule 12,200 times. Regulators sigh wearily
"HSBC’s processes, systems and staff were not capable of detecting and reporting these breaches until December 2022. The inability for HSBC to determine the scale of these breaches due to the inadequacy of its systems and processes is a further concern."
News
6 key takeaways from Microsoft’s annual report
$10.7 billion in Q4 CapEx was "both the data centers… plus CPUs and GPUs and networking equipment" with spending to accelerate, said CFO Amy Hood.
SAP
SAP CEO: Generative AI comes with a "30% premium" - could customise your on-prem deployments
"We sit on data of over 400,000 customers and their material flows, financial flows, employee customer data. We are taking this data… to benchmark and give business process recommendations"
procurement
Software spending plummets as CFOs batten down the hatches; SaaS firms hike prices
CFOs are scrutinizing net-new spending more aggressively than ever while "new product purchases emphasize 2023’s mission-critical priorities: growth, sustainability, and security"
Citrix
Critical pre-auth RCE Citrix Gateway vulnerability is under active attack and looks bad
There are approximately 38,000 Citrix Gateway appliances exposed to the public internet and a whole host of internet traffic flows through Citrix ADC...
Opinion
Unleashing automation platforms to transform IT infrastructure management
With event-driven automation companies can move significantly closer to achieving fully automated IT infrastructure management.
carbon emissions
UK gov’t eyes £4 million GHG emissions software upgrade
HMG wants a "new software approach which streamlines the system, using standard architecture across all inventory sectors to store, analyze, and report emissions"