David Warburton

Online privacy is no longer about simply staying away from prying eyes. Encryption on the web plays a key role in affording us our privacy and it is constantly changing. Once reserved for login and checkout pages, cryptographic protocols like Transport Layer Security (TLS) have risen in prominence in recent times, providing a way for endpoints to be authenticated and communicate confidentially. Over the last two years, TLS standards have been updated too. Browsers will soon block old and weak implementations of the protocol, such as TLS 1.0 and 1.1. New protocols are also being introduced to lock down insecure…

The UK general election is almost upon us, and it is already turning into one of the most divisive and analysed political events in the country’s history.  Discourse and debate are reaching fever pitch, from parliamentary benches and constituency doorsteps, to every conceivable media platform in play.  It is no surprise then that an air of online volatility persists more than usual. At this moment in time, every new election is likely the most tech-enabled and at risk addled yet. Labour was most recently under the cybersecurity cosh, enduring what it termed as “sophisticated and large-scale” attempt to knock out…

This year’s rugby world cup in Japan will be the biggest and most tech-enabled incarnation yet. It doesn’t have a choice. The modern-day sporting spectacle is invariably a hyper-connected production of dizzying permutations and potential. 1,8 million tickets will change hands and 400,000 rugby fans will descend on the Land of the Rising Sun from 20 September. Online activity will also be off the charts. In 2015, there were over 270 million social media video views, 2,8 million official app downloads, and the #RWC2015 hashtag appeared twice a second. Expect records to tumble again this year as cybercriminals get match…

Safely navigating through a worsening threat landscape, controlling burgeoning IT complexity, and protecting gargantuan amounts of data are key to maintaining customer confidence. Going it alone, without attempting to tap into the power of the multi-cloud, seems like an increasingly foolhardy move. According to Foresight Factory’s recent F5 sponsored Future of Multi-cloud (FOMC), disruptive technologies, new strategic imperatives, and evolving governance practices are radically reshaping business and consumer paradigms. Usage demands are already massive for both consumers and enterprises. Netflix users alone consumed more than one billion hours of video content per week in 2017. Meanwhile, almost five billion videos…