Category Archives: Cyber Security

Think security, think CIA – but we’re not talking spies and sleuths The threat of cyber-attack is increasing every year, and only recently have we read about Dixon Carphone’s huge data breach last year. It’s bad for customers and it’s bad for business. According to figures published by the Online Trust Alliance, 2017 was the worst […]

Ron Temske, Vice President of Security Solutions, Logicalis US, shares his thoughts about Meltdown and Spectre. Many of you may have read about two new cyber vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre. I want to spend a little time sharing my thoughts about these vulnerabilities and Vulnerability Management in general. The focus here is not to […]

Adam Petrovsky, GovEd Practice Leader Logicalis US, looks at three key planks that you need to know about in the emerging world of Smart Cities and IoT. Emerging technologies aimed at connecting citizens to each other, to government agencies and the infrastructure of the places they live and work are driving a move towards the […]

In the wake of Friday’s cyber-attack that has so far hit 150 countries, Ron Temske, Vice President, Security Solutions, Logicalis US offers up practical IT security tips to avoid homeworkers becoming the next significant IT security breach for your organsiation. I don’t think I’ve met an executive globally, either through work or socially, who doesn’t […]

In this latest blog in a series deconstructing the Logicalis Global CIO study, Ruediger Rath, Head of Europe for Logicalis, explores SMACS and its disruptive powers in business. SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the idea that four technologies are driving business innovation in our new digitally defined world. However, these game-changing technologies are for […]

In continuation of our series on the Logicalis Global CIO study, Ricky Magalhaes, Head of Offshore Security at Logicalis Jersey, explains why security concerns are top of mind for over six in 10 CIOs worldwide. Towards the end of 2016, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced that the government would invest £1.9bn […]

As news headlines tell us that cyber security lessons are to be offered at schools in England, the US Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) cyber security capabilities are being called into question and China introduces new cyber security laws, Joanne Nelson draws our attention to six cyber security articles you really should read. Cyber Security articles from […]

Significant attention is being given in the news across the world to active and emerging cyber attacks. Alastair Broom,  takes a look at one of those: Ransomware – to ask what it is and how some organisations are dealing with it. Dip into tech headlines across the world and it is clear that cyber attacks are […]

Chris Gabriel explains why CIOs are worried about threats from Ransomware to Ghostware put Network Security Investment as their #1 Priority – and why Cisco research shows they also need to keep existing networks patched and up to date. Security continues to head the list of priorities for customers around the world, with the recent […]

Given the eye watering costs that can be incurred when security doesn’t do its job, Ricky Magalhaes, head of the Offshore Security Services Division at Logicalis, looks at the steps CIOs can take to avoid data breaches in the first place – and, identifies the five cyber security questions a board might ask a CIO. Google “data […]