Archives : July 2010

Risk assessment on the rise

published on 2010/07/30 by Stewart Baines

Despite concerns over security standards among offshore outsourced service providers, companies will continue to outsource offshore in an attempt to cut costs. In this context, remote risk assessment is likely to become an increasingly valuable tool alongside companies' own security protocols. ...

Risk assessment on the rise

Black Hat comes to Abu Dhabi

published on 2010/07/29 by Stewart Baines

Black Hat, one of the most prestigious security conferences in the world, is coming to Abu Dhabi. The conference, which already has a strong presence in Europe and North America, will be holding its inaugural event in the middle eastern region in November this year. The Black Hat conference family is the launch pad for tens of high-profile news stories each year, as security researchers come together and discuss ther latest findings. These experts reverse engineer operating systems, pieces together innovative attack methods to penetrate the defences of web applications, and build devices to foil the security measures on wireless and......

Black Hat comes to Abu Dhabi

What price privacy?

published on 2010/07/29 by Stewart Baines

Speaking at the Geoloco conference in San Francisco last week, Wilson was quoted as saying that location-based services had one major weakness - privacy. "The challenge for large social networks is to undo permissions that they have already given. Meanwhile, a start-up is at an advantage as it can build something from scratch that allows the user to predefine the data terms for sharing."...

What price privacy?

Virtualisation keeps on giving

published on 2010/07/28 by Stewart Baines

Virtualisation continues to gain traction among enterprises - and the benefits users gets are having the added effect of increasing awareness of the potential of the cloud services that will sit on top. There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that unlike other disruptive technologies that produce big cost reductions during initial implementation but limited further savings, virtualisation is delivering considerable savings even in second or third generation virtual infrastructures....

Virtualisation keeps on giving

IT underpins Emirates business says CIO

published on 2010/07/26 by Anthony Plewes

I thought I'd share with you an interesting interview I heard with Patrick Naef, Senior Vice President IT, Emirates carried out by Phil Buzzard of AME Info. He speaks about the his IT challenges at this rapidly growing enterprise centred around the Emirates Airline. For your convenience I have highlighted some of the key points in the interview below, but you can listen to the interview in full on AME Info via the link above: Emirates employs 2000 people in IT and IT support. The majority are based in Dubai, with some in India;IT serves all of the group. In......

IT underpins Emirates business says CIO