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The perils of using voice commands with IoT machines

Combine the IoT, voice commands and machines, and you’re creating a potentially disastrous recipe of unintended consequences.

Nov 15, 2018 3 mins

Internet of Things Security

GPUs are vulnerable to side-channel attacks

Researchers at UCLA Riverside discover GPUs can be victims of the same kinds of attacks as Meltdown and Spectre, which have impacted Intel and AMD CPUs.

Nov 13, 2018 3 mins

Data Center Security Servers

What is WPA3? And some gotchas to watch out for in this Wi-Fi security upgrade

The WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard tackles WPA2 shortcomings to better secure personal, enterprise, and IoT wireless networks

Nov 2, 2018 8 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business Wi-Fi

Right-to-repair smartphone ruling loosens restrictions on industrial, farm IoT

Forget smartphones — the U.S. Copyright Office’s new DRM exemptions could be a big deal for farmers and other heavy equipment operators and vendors.

Oct 30, 2018 4 mins

Consumer Electronics Internet of Things Smartphones

Rackspace launches disaster recovery as a service program

Rackspace's fully managed disaster recovery service promises improved business continuity for on-premises, colocation, and multi-cloud environments.

Oct 25, 2018 2 mins

Business Continuity Data Center

The best enterprise level firewalls: Rating 10 top products

So many firewalls and, of course, each one is ‘the best’ one, so how do you choose? This 37-page downloadable report features reviews from hundreds of network security pros who have actually used the products in real-world situations.

Oct 23, 2018 3 mins

Firewalls Networking Security

How we selected 10 hot business continuity startups to watch

Here's the process used to winnow down the possible candidates for mention in our business-continuity roundup.

Oct 22, 2018 2 mins

Business Continuity Data Center Disaster Recovery

10 hot business-continuity startups to watch

A crop of well-funded young businesses embrace blockchain, machine learning, data analytics and more to stave off costly disaster downtime.

Oct 22, 2018 23 mins

Backup and Recovery Business Continuity Disaster Recovery

Uptime Institute issues a weather warning for data centers

The number of severe weather incidents is expected to increase, yet most data centers don't have plans to ensure uptime should an event hit, an Uptime Institute study finds.

Oct 18, 2018 3 mins

Business Continuity Data Center

Gartner: Digital business projects in a quagmire? Hack your culture!

Gartner says changing corporate culture is but one area business leaders need to master – developing privacy, artificial intelligence plans matter, too

Oct 16, 2018 4 mins

Business Continuity Careers Cloud Computing