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Improving cyber hygiene is a goal that a lot of IT security teams struggle with. The problem is that it is such a broad subject. At one end it is about patching, at the other, it is about identity. There are so many things that can be done to improve cyber hygiene but where do […]

COVID has seen a resurgence in the popularity of cloud and SaaS solutions as companies enable employees to work remotely, often from home. Why SaaS and why now, are a couple of the questions that Chris Richards, Regional President, UK&I at Unit4 is asked during this podcast. She argues that the key to SaaS is […]

In this podcast, Beata Wright, Executive Vice President of global partner ecosystems at Unit4, talks about what it takes to become a great channel partner. Wright has deep experience of running channel ecosystems and recently concluded a complete revamp of the one at Unit4. She first defines the different types of channel partner noting that […]

Survivor guilt is a concept that has been around since the 1960’s. Originally used to describe survivors of the holocaust it is now studied and used in business, especially during or after redundancies. Myers Briggs is carrying our research to look at how the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) influences how are people feeling as […]

Secure by Design is about building in security, starting with the design of a product. It is an approach that both NTT Ltd and Cisco are taking and goes far beyond the idea of secure coding, something that is still challenging for many organisations. But what does it really mean for organisations and can organisations […]

Professional Services Organisations are changing as a result of COVID-19 and the imposed lockdown in many countries. Enterprise Times sat down with Manav Singh, General Manager, Global Head of PSA suite at Unit4. Singh puts his view about how practice management is changing for many organisations across the globe. Singh sees firms focus on three […]

The quantity of time series data generated by enterprises is increasing. IoT and cybersecurity create a lot of this data but they are not alone. To understand where this data is coming from and why there is so much interest in time series databases, Enterprise Times talked with Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data. In this […]

Jeff Mills is UK country manager at WordPress VIP, part of the Automattic Group. The company was globally distributed from the start with its first two employees separated by the Atlantic. Mills joined the company recently but has worked remotely for much of his recent career. Automattic has learnt many lessons during its history which […]

Implementing an ERP solution is rarely straightforward, easy or even quick. Enterprise Times sat down with Peter Wong, Senior Director of professional service at Rootstock Software, to discuss the challenge. Wong believes that there are five questions that firms need to answer for an ERP implementation to be successful. The key questions The conversation focused […]

Life in the SOC (Security Operation Center) is rarely slow. But as COVID-19 raged around the world and organisations scrambled to adapt to mass work from home, cybersecurity analysts found their world turned upside down. On the one hand, they were facing a flexible and opportunistic foe who quickly took advantage of the pandemic. On […]

Talk about security and protecting staff and most organisations immediately think about electronic threats. Yet being in the wrong place at the wrong time, risks being caught up in an earthquake, flood, demonstration, riot or worse. Employers have to begin taking greater responsibility for their staff and not just in countries or locations where there […]

Over the last few months, the manufacturing industry has been impacted massively by COVID-19. In the Med-tech manufacturing vertical, business is booming. Other sectors have found demand has fallen to zero, yet several manufacturers have been able to re-purpose their production facilities to meet the growing demand of healthcare organisations. Both of these scenarios have […]

For IT security teams, remote working has exacerbated an already growing problem over device visibility. The explosion of IoT, containers, cloud and BYOD has created far more endpoints than organisations realise. Marco Rottigni, Chief Technical Security Officer for EMEA at Qualys, calls this Digital Biodiversity. To explain what he means, the scale of the problem […]

COVID-19 opened up a new opportunity for global threat actors. They have increased their use of old vulnerabilities, used COVID-19 lures to catch out the unwary and increased their weaponisation of IoT. They are all subjects the security division of NTT Ltd has been tracking and reporting on in its monthly bulletins. Two weeks ago, […]

Business Value Engineering (BVE) has historically been delivered by a team of consultants. They have done time and motion studies, reviewing and documenting processes. These are all things that require physical presence in an operation. Enterprise Times spoke to Matt Smith, Global Chief Architect at IFS about BVE. Smith is responsible for the Business Value […]

Cybercriminals from individual hackers to cybercrime businesses and state-sponsored hacking groups are all taking advantage of COVID-19 and the global impact of the pandemic. They see lots of opportunities, not just for new attacks, but to use well established attacks against people working from home. The NTT Ltd Global Threat Intelligence Center publishes a monthly […]

Phil Lewis is Vice President, Solution Consulting, EMEA at Infor. He is responsible for implementations of Infor products including ERP across EMEA. In this podcast, we talked about the adoption of cloud software by manufacturers. According to Lewis attitudes to the cloud have changed. Manufacturers now realise that many solutions are better run from the […]

Boldon James recently launched a whitepaper entitled “Classification by Design: the foundation of effective data protection compliance”, registration required. Enterprise Times had the chance to talk to Martin Sugden, CEO of Boldon James about the state of compliance and some of the findings in the report. He also talked about the impact of COVID-19 on […]

The threat of a breach is ever-present for companies today. It may be from an external attacker or someone inside the organisation. It doesn’t matter where the attack comes from, it will happen to all companies, irrespective of their size and industry sector. What is important is that you train people to deal with the […]

Yandex, the Russian online giant, created ClickHouse to solve its problem around web analytics. Like many web companies, Yandex was struggling to understand user behaviour. For example, why did people put stuff in their baskets but not complete the transaction? Yandex open-sourced ClickHouse in 2016 under the Apache licence. Since then, it has found a […]

DevOps is about improving the speed with which to deliver software from design to production. It’s good because it means we can adapt software at the speed of change in the business and that is about delivering commercial advantage. Yet a lot of the software we use today relies on a database and that is […]

How do you integrate security teams and products from 31 companies into a single business unit? That is the challenge that Matthew Gyde, President and CEO of NTT security division, NTT Ltd, has been dealing for almost a year. Enterprise Times last spoke to Gyde about the challenge of building a 2,500 person, global security […]

Encryption is always a hot topic. Everyone wants it to keep their data private. Governments want it but also want a backdoor into it so that they can see everything when it suits them, even if nobody trusts them to keep the backdoor secure. A bigger problem, however, is that encryption of data is never […]

Malcolm Ross is the Vice President of Marketing and Deputy CTO at Appian. Enterprise Times caught up with Ross in Washington after Appian World was cancelled. This is the last of the podcasts that ET conducted during the visit. Ross talks about the challenge of being customer-focused. It’s a phrase that technology companies use a […]

John Petrie is the Councillor to the CISO for NTT. It’s a role that comes with a particular challenge over the next few years. NTT is in the process of merging all of its operating companies into a single entity. It started that project with NTT Ltd, which brought 29 companies together. During the process, […]