Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers

An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers. Read more »

Digital identity – moving forward with ambition

Despite the UK government’s U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace Read more »

French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech Read more »

AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?

Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why Read more »

Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination

Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users Read more »

Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact

The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls... Read more »

Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch

In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly-managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with new capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles. Read more »

Zero-trust was built for people. Nobody told it about agents

The concept of zero-trust needs no introduction, but in the new world of AI agents, it’s a model that now needs to evolve. Read more »

Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence

Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US... Read more »

Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ security

When she was asked to let IT students run its SOC, New Jersey Institute of Technology CISO Sharon Kelley ran a mile. Find out why she changed her mind,... Read more »
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