Updates to the Cyber Essentials Scheme - January 2022

Updates to the Cyber Essentials Scheme - January 2022

The Cyber Essentials (CE) scheme has a number of major updates being introduced into the scope in January 2022. This blog post will give you a summary of the changes so that you know what to expect if you commence the self-assessment after January 24th.

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Megan's Day two VLOG at VMworld

Megan's Day two VLOG at VMworld

So yesterday was the second day of VMworld 2018 and once again was packed with extremely good session, announcements and content. Watch my video to find out what I got up to and learnt on day 2 of VMworld!

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Speculative Execution and Side Channels Attacks

Speculative Execution and Side Channels Attacks

A few weeks back Intel have disclosed details of new vulnerabilities that effect their current and past CPU ranges from at least 2009 up to their latest – so, it would seem, most Intel CPUs in living memory!

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BizTech Brief Season: 2 - Episode: 1

BizTech Brief Season: 2 - Episode: 1

I am back!! Whilst I have been very busy recently with VMUG, my blogging has taken a back seat, but what better time to pick this back up than in the lead up to the busiest time of year, kicking off with VMworld 2018 in Vegas?!

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GravityZone Basic End-point protection mechanisms

GravityZone Basic End-point protection mechanisms

Following on from my previous blog post I wanted to explore in a little more detail precisely how GravityZone protects the end-points it is installed upon.

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An Introduction to Bitdefender and GravityZone

An Introduction to Bitdefender and GravityZone

Bitdefender’s GravityZone solution rolls many security products into a single solution and not only does it do that but it does it pretty well. This blog post is an in-depth article about Bitdefender and their GravityZone solution.

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What is GDPR and how does it apply to your business?

What is GDPR and how does it apply to your business?

With the new EU data protection regulation due to come into force, we look at the changes it introduces and how it will affect your business.

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Mitigating the ransomware risk

Mitigating the ransomware risk

Ransomware is a money-making machine for the most organised criminal endeavours; last year Bitdefender Chief Security Strategist Catalin Cosoi reported that a single ransomware operation made more than a $1m in just one week.

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Understanding the ransomware threat

Understanding the ransomware threat

Although ransomware is commonly thought of as something new, it's actually nothing of the sort. Ransomware came to prominence in 2013 when the by now infamous CryptoLocker made an appearance

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BizTech Brief #29

BizTech Brief #29

With the first quarter of the calendar year now passed, the industry is buzzing with announcements, events and more. This BizTech Brief summarises and condenses all the biggest and latest content from the It industry into one place. 

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BizTech Brief #28

BizTech Brief #28

Tech news has really started to flow with the first award evenings now being held, releases coming out and events being announced. However with all this news happening there is still one thing that dominates the headlines...Cyber Security. 

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BizTech Brief #26

BizTech Brief #26

This week the news focuses largely on Cyber Security, what issues businesses have faced, what the government and suppliers are looking to do to help these businesses and advice to help businesses understand what to look out for in regards to cyber security

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BizTech Brief #24

BizTech Brief #24

We are now into the second month of the year and as people are back into the swing of things, the industry announcements have started appearing in the news in between all the security breach articles.

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BizTech Brief #23

BizTech Brief #23

This week we welcomed in the second month of the year and with that came some new IT news, events and an acquisition. This BizTech Brief article summarises some of the biggest news within the Tech Industry over the past week.

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No More Ransom

No More Ransom

The latest development in the fight against Ransomware in Europe is an initiative being led by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands Police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and a several of well-known cyber security companies including BitDefender; the ‘No More Ransom’ project.

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BizTech Brief #17

BizTech Brief #17

The majority of news within the industry has taken a back seat to the Christmas parties and holidays. However, it is clear that the industry giants won't rest. 

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VMworld Barcelona 2016 - Part 3

VMworld Barcelona 2016 - Part 3

Yesterday was my final day at VMworld 2016 in Barcelona despite the conference actually ending today. 

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BizTech Brief #14

BizTech Brief #14

Following one of the biggest mergers in IT history between Dell and EMC, VMware has announced their own strategic partnerships within the cloud. This weeks BizTech Brief covers the latest and biggest news from the past week in the industry. 

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