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SLA promises, security realities: Navigating the shared responsibility gap

4 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Cloud, compliance, data privacy, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SIEM, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

The shared responsibility model (SRM) plays a central role in defining how security and operational duties are split between cloud providers and their customers. However, when this model intersects with service level agreements (SLAs), it introduces layers of complexity. SLAs typically cover metrics like uptime, support response times and service performance, but often overlook critical…

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Apple Keeps Teasing homeOS, But One Crucial Piece Of The Puzzle Is Still Missing

2 minutes of reading / Apple, Apple TV, branding, Cloud, HomePod, iCloud, Tech / By

José Adorno for BGR It’s only a matter of time until Apple finally announces homeOS, its software platform for home products. Teased more than once over the past few years, it seems the company always hits a snag right before revealing homeOS. This time, Israeli website The Verifier discovered references to “Apple Home” in the Settings app…

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Podcast: How (agentic) AI can help with unstructured data

7 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Cloud, natural language processing, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Boris Bialek, vice-president and field chief technology officer (CTO) at MongoDB, about how artificial intelligence (AI) can help with discovery and management of unstructured data. Bialek sets out how AI can help bring together different classes of information that an organisation might hold about customers to make processes much…

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Is history repeating itself with the government’s push to open public sector cloud deals to SMEs?

9 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…

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CISPE criticised over securing preferential cloud pricing on Microsoft products for members

5 minutes of reading / Azure, Cloud, compliance, Computer, Microsoft, Tech / By

A European trade body is facing criticism for striking a deal with Microsoft that allows its members to host and resell the software giant’s cloud offerings with preferential pricing terms.   The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers In Europe (CISPE) trade body has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will see its members offered revised pricing…

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Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana

5 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, SAP, Tech / By

Chemical industry giant BASF is moving its SAP IT estate to the supplier’s S/4Hana enterprise resource planning (ERP) system as part of a business modernisation strategy, it was announced at the SAP Sapphire user and partner conference in Madrid. Petra Scheithe, senior vice-president of digitalization of services and ERP platforms at BASF Business Services, outlined…

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How cyber security professionals are leveraging AWS tools

8 minutes of reading / Accenture, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, cloud-native, compliance, Computer, data privacy, HTC, hybrid cloud, machine learning, network security, patch management, risk management, Tech, threat intelligence / By

With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…

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Apple devices are at ‘most risk’ in UK following government ‘backdoor’ order

5 minutes of reading / Apple, Cloud, Computer, iCloud, Tech / By

Users of Apple devices in the UK are “at the most risk in the world” of being hacked, following a secret government order requiring the tech company to allow ‘backdoor’ access to its users’ encrypted data, the House of Lords heard on Monday 31 March.Liberal peer Paul Strasburger pressed the government to answer questions about…

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Apple’s appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK’s encryption ‘backdoor’ explained

9 minutes of reading / Apple, Cloud, iCloud, iPhone, Tech / By

In mid-March 2025, Apple began a legal challenge to an order from the Home Secretary before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London. According to information leaked to the Washington Post in February, a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) was issued to Apple by home secretary Yvette Cooper sometime in late 2024. It allegedly requires the…

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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, Git, GitHub, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By

Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…

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