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Edward Targett

Edward Targett

Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.

Bank of England's tech overhaul: 'Open Sesame' or more friction?

Proposed changes for account onboarding front-load compliance burden, even as technology gets slicker...

Shell says it's collecting “5 trillion rows of data” for AI – but CEO warns on IT cost cuts

"We've reduced some 35% of our IT contractors since the middle of last year – and really getting much sharper on where we want to focus our scarce IT dollars."

Fortinet patches MORE pre-auth RCEs, with exploits reported. Ivanti also slips out a fresh VPN fix...

"Disable SSL VPN (disable webmode is NOT a valid workaround..."

Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering

"The number of IT resources that are available to do manual processing of IT workloads is constrained and sophisticated observability and application security [is becoming] more critical..."

ransomware $1 billion payments

"Invest in, understand and test your entire recovery strategy"

White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy rapped over lack of “performance measures”

"Traditional cybersecurity delivery metrics... have lost their relevance."

Digital and data? We’re going large, says McDonalds’ CEO, as new CIO vows new OS, GenAI, "data highway"

"The scale of incoming information from all corners of the globe will allow McDonald’s GenAI models to better understand the broadest range of patterns and nuances"

Deutsche Börse Group overcomes “hesitant stakeholders, cautious regulators” moves ERP to GCP

"From adding new legal entities following M&A, through launching products such as swap types, to simple requests to improve our workflows, the system couldn’t keep up. Just a simple launch request would take as much as nine months"

AnyDesk hacked

"We can confirm that the situation is under control" is not the world's greatest incident response report we've seen.

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