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Data sovereignty has become a hot-button issue ever since the EU's top court struck down the Safe Harbor agreement in October, and for many users of file-synchronization and sharing services, it poses a considerable problem. OwnCloud CEO Markus Rex sees it as more of an opportunity.

Which is more secure: the public cloud or on-premises infrastructure?

“Is it more secure to run in the cloud or more secure to run in my data center?” asks John Treadway, senior vice president at consultancy Cloud Technology Partners. “I can do it better. You can do it better… It becomes a religious debate.”

Large enterprises invest a lot in security, Treadway says and so do large cloud providers. “Whether it's more secure or less secure, [the cloud is] at least as secure as most enterprise environments,” he concludes. Читать дальше...

A major cyberattack next year will target a U.S. election, security expert Bruce Schneier predicts.

Microsoft yesterday announced that only the priciest enterprise Office 365 subscription plans will be eligible for an unlimited OneDrive for Business storage allotment.

Microsoft SmartScreen, the phishing and malware filtering technology built into Internet Explorer, Edge and Windows, has been updated to block Web-based attacks that silently exploit software vulnerabilities to infect computers.

As 2015 winds down and we start to focus on 2016, one thing can be predicted quite easily. Analysts, editors and others will start making their own predictions about what we can expect in the upcoming year.

Android security is always a hot topic on these here Nets of Inter -- and almost always for the wrong reason.

In a move meant to cut the cost of IT and consumer electronics products, the World Trade Organization is ending tariffs on imports including game consoles, TVs, GPS receivers and advanced chips from July 2016.

I spoke with IBM’s Vice President for the IBM-Apple Partnership, Katharyn White to get a little more background on news Apple and IBM are extending their partnership to put business intelligence across the digital ecosystem, from the artificial smarts of Watson to augmented cleverness strapped to any Apple Watch user’s wrist – and the partners are in this for the long game.

The end of the year always brings about thoughts of what changes should occur in the coming year. If a change of job is in your thoughts, security executives say they look at prospective employees’ experience before they even take a step through the door.

Google Nexus 6P and 5X smartphones are down in price direct from Google. Also the Huawei Watch gets a discount.

For more than 120 years, McCormick & Co. seasoned its growth by adding new products, slowly simmering its spices, sauces and packaged foods into a $4.2 billion global business.

Flashback to the early 1990s, when this pilot fish is working for a big computer maker, supporting its manufacturing processes.

AT&T recently rolled out an Internet of Things platform, at the same time they set up the AT&T Foundry, a kind of skunkworks where smart people can create different solutions built on top of the IoT. One of the results of AT&T's initiatives is a new collaboration between the company and Permobile, a wheelchair manufacturer.