Shadow IT – as the name implies – is the installation and use of applications by employees that operate in an organisation’s area of shadows, without the knowledge or approval of IT. These applications have not been vetted, authorised, controlled or supported by the IT team and therefore are often not in line with the organisation’s requirements for data management, security and compliance. At the same time, shadow IT is considered by many as an important source for innovation, enabling the faster development of applications and tools not considered by the IT team, to develop a prototype way of working…
Ed Macnair
Ed Macnair
Ed Macnair, CEO and Chairman of cloud security specialist, CensorNet has over 30 years of sales and business development expertise in the technology and IT security world. Ed led the acquisition of CensorNet in October 2014 with the aim of accelerating the company’s product development and aggressively growing web security revenues through its global channel partners and new partnerships with managed service providers.His experience in cloud security is unquestionable: he was previously the founder and CEO of SaaSID, a UK based single-sign on and application security vendor, which was acquired by Intermedia Inc. in September 2013. Before Intermedia and SaaSID, Ed was CEO of Marshal, a global web and email security company which merged with US web security provider 8e6 Technologies to form M86 Security. He also held senior management positions with MessageLabs, Symantec, IBM and Xerox.
Terrorism has never been the most uplifting topic to talk about and perhaps that’s always been part of the problem. Collectively we need to find ways of tackling subjects that we’d rather not discuss at parties or at work. If for no other reason because they’re allowed to thrive and flourish on the very fact that we’d rather just pretend they didn’t exist – until the very day Andrew Parker spoke up In September, Andrew Parker, the head of MI5, launched an unprecedented attack on social media companies, saying they have a “responsibility” to pass on intelligence of potential terrorism.…
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