Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe government’s initiatives to support tech firms during the pandemic are very welcome, but they risk entrenching old behaviours that restrict the move towards greater diversity in the sector. By Russ Shaw The tech industry is proving to be one of the most resilient amid a global health crisis. Whether the uptick in remote working or the push for innovation in healthtech to
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIT is facing renewed scrutiny into its lack of diversity. Explore the unique barriers minorities in cybersecurity face and why hiring approaches are ill equipped to address them. By Katie Donegan After the death of George Floyd and other Black citizens at the hands of police, institutions in law enforcement, educational and technological spaces are again being questioned about their
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesExamine the major elements of an active archiving environment, including the kinds of data that you can use in one and resources to help with platform execution. By Paul Kirvan Archiving assumes an organization must protect data but might not actively use it for an extended period. Typical archiving technologies include magnetic tape and cloud-based archives. However, suppose certain data
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesE-commerce sites are being urged to ensure that they have adequate DDoS protection ahead of the vital holiday trading season after attacks ramped up on Black Friday and Cyber Monday By Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks reached their highest levels in November on two of the busiest online trading days of the year, statistics show. On Black
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAny business that is online is susceptible to denial of service attacks and should ensure it has the capability to mitigate such attacks, says an industry practitioner who explains how By Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst Any online business or application is vulnerable to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to Harshil Parikh, director of security at software-as-a-service platform firm, Medallia. However, there
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe growing prevalence of DDoS attacks combined with the increased reliance on internet connectivity during the pandemic means enterprises can no longer afford to ignore the threat of DDoS attacks. Computer Weekly explores organisations’ perceptions of the risks and best practice for mitigation By Sebastian Klovig Skelton The increased reliance of enterprises on remote working and internet connectivity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteBy Tekmart Support Team Important: Do not install a SCSI hard disk drive in this server. Figure 1. Hot-swap hard disk drive installation To install a drive in a hot-swap bay, complete the following steps. Attention: To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than 10 minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUse this information to install a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. For brevity, in this documentation the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller is often referred to as the SAS/SATA adapter or the ServeRAID adapter. By Tekmart Support Team The ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller can be installed in the dedicated connector on the system board or PCI riser-card slots . To install a SAS/SATA adapter, complete the following steps:Depending
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that will update and unify data privacy laws across the European Union. GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016 and goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Trea Lavery GDPR replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995. The new directive focuses on keeping businesses more transparent
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMigrating to or operating cloud-based Microsoft 365 can bring with it a host of problems and misconfigurations. Check out 12 best practices to tighten Microsoft 365 security. By Johna Till Johnson Part one of this two-part series on Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) security weaknesses examined some of main misconfigurations that cause problems when trying to securely operate or migrate to the cloud-based Microsoft
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