New Security Findings--Apple Isn't Immune And Fixing Takes Too Long

Sobering reading today with the release of a new risk assessment report being released by security vendor NopSec. The report, entitled the "“2015 State of Vulnerability Risk Management”, focuses on security vulnerability issues historically and by industry and analyzes cross-industry remediation developments. The report, conducted by NopSec's own research team, analyzed [...]

The Art of DevOps Part IV – The Operational Battlefield

In this 4 part blog series, I am exposing DevOps best practices using a metaphor inspired by the famous 6th century Chinese manuscript: “The Art of War”. It is worth reminding that Sun Tzu, just like me, considered war as a necessary evil, which must be avoided whenever possible. What are we fighting for here? […]
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Emoji could be used for your next PIN

The humble PIN is a common way to secure access to accounts, but it has one major problem -- it is, usually, limited to using the digits 0-9. A UK firm thinks it may have come up with a better solution: emoji-based PINs. Intelligent Environments' Emoji Passcode system can be used to secure accounts with ideograms. The company argues that Emoji passcodes are not only easier to remember that number-based alternatives, but also more secure.

The IT skills gap is closing - CompTIA

The IT skills gap is slowly closing according to IT trade association CompTIA.
Following a recent report by CompTIA, the company revealed that 55 per cent of businesses surveyed said that they are seeing IT skills improving within their business.
This is an improvement on the same survey carried out two years ago, which revealed that 48 per cent were seeing IT skills improve.

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