About: Alex Harris

Keeping The Lights On During Your Cloud Journey Unless you are a “born-in-the-cloud” company, you are probably on your cloud journey or planning to start one. This means you have a traditional environment you will need to support and maintain while on the journey. Aside from the complexities of managing multiple, disparate environments, you will…

How To Train Remote-Working Employees On Cybersecurity Last year, the world experienced huge challenges created by the pandemic. Not only were we living in a state of uncertainty, but most of the workforce was also suddenly working from home offices and using their personal internet connections. Where once IT professionals could walk down a hallway…

Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home? On Wednesday last week, Google's Fiona Cicconi wrote to company employees. She announced that Google was bringing forward its timetable of moving people back into the office. As of the 1st of September, she said, employees wishing to work from home for more than 14…

25% of UK Workers Let Their Children Use Their Work Device A quarter (25%) of UK workers allow their children to use their corporate device for home schooling and other purposes, according to a YouGov survey conducted by iomart. The survey of more than 2000 UK employees highlighted that insecure practices among home workers are prevalent, which…

More Than a Quarter of Threats Never Seen Before Over a quarter (29%) of threats spotted in Q4 2020 had never before been detected in-the-wild, giving attackers an advantage over their victims, according to HP Inc. The tech giant’s latest Quarterly Threat Insights Report was compiled from data gathered from its global customers’ Sure Click virtual machines…

Ransomware Attacks Soared 150% in 2020 Ransomware surged by 150% in 2020 with the average extortion amount doubling, according to a new report from Group-IB. The Singapore-based security firm analyzed over 500 attacks last year to compile its Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 report, which maps for the first time the most common tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) to the…

McAfee Agrees Deal to Sell Enterprise Business for $4bn Security software giant McAfee has announced it has reached a deal to sell its enterprise business for an all cash fee of $4bn. The firm said it has entered a definitive agreement with a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group (STG), with the transaction expected to be completed…

Out of office: what the home working revolution means for our cities Employees’ reluctance to return to full-time commuting after a year of Covid means change is afoot for companies Susanna* has spent most of the lockdown in back-to-back Zoom meetings. It is a major change for the senior banker, who used to commute to…

When should your business move to the cloud Worldwide, spending on cloud computing services is expected to climb to $1073 billion. It’s reshaped our vernacular too. A cloud is no longer just an amorphous, gaseous blob in the sky. It’s an ever-present technology in our lives. Snap a photo and it’ll likely be uploaded to…

Remote working – the pros, the cons and the law As employers and employees navigate lockdowns and tier systems, it is clear that there are both positives and negatives to the new way of working. So, what does this mean for employers in reality and, importantly, how might this change how employers start thinking about…