Christophe Rey-herme: Security Awareness Is Key To ICS Cybersecurity
OT engineers need to see security as a threat to operational continuity in order to take it seriously. When plants connect to enterprise networks, OT engineers are often unaware of the risk, and IT people are often unaware of the connections, or they do not know how...
Brian Foster: In Critical Infrastructure, Safety Comes First
Securing 30 year-old-equipment which was not built with security in mind is a great challenge in the power generation and distribution industry. In the IT world, it’s common to prevent suspicious packets from reaching their destination. You can’t do that in critical...
Benoît Vittek: How data helps commentators tell a better sports story
The really big breakthrough has come in just the past couple of years with live rider data provided by Dimension Data, collected from GPS trackers, along with Twitter postings and analysis. Rather than simply describing a sprint, we can now provide a different...
Peter Gray: Using business process automation to operate at a new level
Automation allows us to have a virtualised infrastructure and systems managed remotely by experts as part of a managed service. That reduces the number of people on the ground while providing access to a broader range of expertise. Complex supply chains often use big,...
Matt Gyde: Safeguarding data without restricting business
With a programmable infrastructure, it’s possible to automatically and instantly kill a compromised process and then restart it with a clean image. This can happen with no service interruption. The future of security is in programmable security controls driven by...
Joe Manuele: Team Dimension Data shows how to keep employees productive and engaged
Riders communicate with their coaches and doctors from anywhere. They can stay in touch with their families, and they can cheer each other on. This is how having technology tools of choice keeps everyone engaged in a highly distributed enterprise. In a mobile world...
Kevin Leahy: How data insights drive growth and improve customer experience
To leverage data, you need to filter it for business relevance, correlate it for context and meaning, structure it so people and processes can consume it, then add historical data into the mix and apply predictive analytics. Business models such as retail and finance...
Scott Gibson: Transformation needs to deliver business outcomes
Transforming customer experiences depends on understanding customer behaviour, trends, buying patterns, and how to use data to build experiences that influence customer preferences and behaviour. It also requires a fast and secure technology ecosystem that reliably...
Doug Ryder: The business of winning
For Team Dimension Data, technology plays a critical role in logistics management to make sure the right equipment and supplies arrive at the right locations at the right times for each rider. Team Dimension Data uses historical data and performance analytics to...
Stephen Green: Success depends on asking tough questions
Many companies run into tremendous complexities around connecting the applications they’ve moved to cloud with their on-premises landscape. The integrations are much tougher to achieve than they thought, and most of the automation must be rebuilt. When planning on...
