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Europe's operators are not keen to run their telco workloads on expensive and suboptimal systems owned by US hyperscalers.

Nick Smith, Regional Manager at Genetec, details how physical security professionals can improve their resilience to cyberattacks by reviewing the ...

The data breach is said to have been carried out by an international hacker collective, with one of the individuals involved explaining the reasons behind the attack were "lots of curiosity, fighting for freedom of information… and it's also just too much fun not to do it." A Verkada spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company has "disabled all internal administrator accounts to prevent any unauthorised access," and that its internal security team "are investigating the scale and scope of the issue, and we have notified law enforcement." The company has also set up a support line for its c...

Who Is Responsible for Protecting Physical Security Systems From Cyberattacks? It's a question that continues to engage debate, as the majority of new physical security devices being installed are now connected to a network. While this offers myriad benefits, it also raises the question: Who is responsible for their cybersecurity? In recent years it has become more obvious that physical security systems are dependent on IT and vulnerable to cyberattacks. In 2007, the movie Live Free or Die Hard showed how a group of criminals were able to control traffic systems and bring Washington DC and ...

Rising to the Challenge: Perspectives from Security Leaders on 2020 and Beyond For those who work in the security industry 2020 has been a particularly challenging year. Chris Price talks to five industry leaders from different perspectives in the sector about how they coped with COVID and asks them to look forward to 2021. Jamie Allam, CEO of installation and integration firm Amthal Fire & Security "2020 was supposed to see us celebrating 20 years in business, but when COVID hit that turned all of our plans on their head. Literally overnight we went from a very traditional set up with every...