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Commsworld has made history by becoming the first network operator to be on every one of the UK’s eight internet exchanges. The Edinburgh-headquartered company has joined NCL-IX, a new interconnection point for data transfer from the USA to Northern Europe
Retired Royal Navy Rear Admiral Steve Brunton CBE and Steve Wilkinson, a global data privacy leader, have joined Edinburgh-based advanced cybersecurity startup, Ionburst, as UK advisors. Ionburst has announced two high-profile advisor appointments, with Rear Admiral Steve Brunton joining alongside Steve
The “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation” Programme brought together its first cohort of aspirational digital leaders from across local and central government, financial services, health and industry last month. The new initiative, delivered by Empowering-You and supported by industry body ScotlandIS,
Frances Sneddon, CTO at Simul8, discusses the important role its simulation modelling has played during the pandemic. The past twelve months have been filled with uncertainty. We’ve been living in a world of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘maybes’ while we try and
Scottish fintech company, AutoRek, a leading software provider to global financial services firms, is proud to announce Omnio as the latest addition to its expanding list of digital banking/payments clients. Omnio is a high growth financial services infrastructure provider, combining the best
Apple, Samsung, Google and other manufacturers will say when smartphones, smart speakers and other devices will stop getting security updates Easy-to-guess default passwords to be banned on virtually all devices under new law Rules will make it easier for people
Ten more universities have postgraduate degrees recognised by cyber security experts for the first time for the high-quality education they offer More than 1 in 3 UK universities running Master’s courses in cyber security now offer degrees certified by the National
This month, Head of Cyber Ciara highlights the options available to the sector of helping reduce the skills gap and supporting the cyber workforce in Scotland. We hear about the cyber skills challenge on a regular basis, and much work
Exception have bolstered their sales operations with the appointment of Alison McLaughlin as Sales Director. Alison, who joins from Sopra Steria having recently completed a 2 year secondment as part of the Digital Transformation Team in Scottish Government, is joining
Ionburst, an advanced data protection startup, this week launched its ultra-secure object storage platform, Ionburst Cloud, in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) London region. The early-stage company, based in Edinburgh, has created a solution to address the data protection gap in the Cloud shared responsibility model. Ionburst
