Dave Cartwright
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You've heard of 'trust but verify', right? Well, remember 'trust but protect' when mulling building a hybrid cloud
Comment Trust the hybrid cloud, service providers tell us – they are, apparently, the experts. But when outages occur, and when data or virtual instances are lost or become unavailable, the impact is profound. Few businesses can trade for any length of time without access to their data or infrastructure. Trust the hybrid cloud? Trust but protect, I say. One of the big mistakes while implementing… → Read More
I know what you're thinking: Outsource or in-source IT security? I've worked both sides, so here's my advice...
The pros and cons of using internal and external talent, or a mix of both → Read More
Tick-tock, tick-tock. Oh, that's just the sound of compromised logins waiting to ruin your day
Comment It has never been easier to conduct a cyber attack. There now exists a range of off-the-shelf tools and services that do all the heavy lifting – you just need to pick an approach and tool you like best. There's ransomware-as-a-service with its "here's one I made earlier" code, search engines that show connected interfaces with known vulnerabilities, and downloadable and easy-to-use… → Read More
Don't put the 'd' and second 'i' in IoT: How to secure devices in your biz – belt and braces
No concessions, no compromises – it's the only way → Read More
Event management kit can take a hammering these days: Use it well and it'll save your ass
Analysis Who'd have thought it? Diagnostic event streams and log files are fashionable at last. But, despite many advances, they're still as big a pain in the backside as they were 30 years ago – both as a tool for observing and reporting security issues thanks to their sheer volume and, increasingly, the numbers of data types we're dealing with. Logging has always been a paradox. Increase the… → Read More
Sitting pretty in IPv4 land? Look, you're gonna have to talk to IPv6 at some stage
We can be forgiven for not having weaned ourselves onto IPv6 earlier. It's been around in draft form since late 1998, but was only released as a standard in July 2017 (that'll be RFC 8200). That this has finally happened, though, means we're being told more loudly than ever that we no longer have an excuse. So do we have one? Can we still stick with IPv4 if we want to? IPv6 and IPv4 The two… → Read More
Some Things just aren't meant to be (on Internet of Things networks). But we can work around that
Plus: Did you know 'shadow IoT' was a thing? It is → Read More
Consent, datasets and avoiding a visit from the information commissioner
Big data has been branded as - we're throwing up in our mouths as we say this – the "oil" of what has annoyingly become known as the "fourth industrial revolution."* Strip that down, and we're in part talking about the way individuals' data is used to knit new, virtual businesses. It's the basis of the app economy and corporations have been getting wise to it. The app economy has thrived on the… → Read More
Windrush immigration papers scandal is a big fat GDPR fail for UK.gov
Zero justification under current or planned data law for actions of Home Office → Read More
New and inventive code is transforming your business – and bringing with it new and inventive ways for things to fail
Here's how to ensure biz continuity at your workplace → Read More
So the suits swanned off to GDPR events leaving you at the coalface? It's really more IT's problem
They might have to worry about it, but you'll be 'doing it' → Read More
Building a simplified and efficient storage operation
Generations of change have produced layers of storage that are a challenge to manage. When I was a boy, storage was easy. You had servers with internal hard drives that had capacities of tens of megabytes, and that was it. It was inefficient – unused space on one server couldn’t be used by the other server – and it was expensive, since the hard drives themselves cost a small fortune (or for that… → Read More
Big data fitness plan: What's the deal with DX?
Over the last few months people have stopped saying “digitalization” or “digital transformation” and abbreviating it “DX.” The industry is full of abbreviations and ephemeral jargon, and the most irritating part of this latest addition, for those of us in receiving end of the phrase “DX”, is they don’t know what “DX” means. Actually, it’s all about, as one definition that I’ve read puts it: “The… → Read More
Architecting for GDPR
I’ve spent many hundreds of hours listening to sales pitches from technology vendors but it’s only during the last year I’ve started to find them rather depressing. That’s been thanks to the arrival in 2018 of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. For example, I was recently pitched to about one particular company’s new GDPR “solution”. To be fair, it was a funky security… → Read More
Hardware has never been better, but it isn't a licence for code bloat
Have as many lines as you want, just make it efficient → Read More
BYOD might be a hipster honeypot but it's rarely worth the extra hassle
Security, compatibility, control... we enter another world of pain → Read More
Small businesses: GDPR affects you, too
Don’t think that just because you’re not a behemoth, they won’t see you → Read More
Tick, tock motherf... erm, we mean, don't panic over GDPR
Eight months sound like enough? No? → Read More
So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth
It's a bit more complicated than going hybrid from private → Read More
A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you
Might not seem relevant, but the smart cruncher knows better → Read More