Hybrid cloud environments can add complexity, reduce visibility, and require different logging and monitoring approaches for security teams. For a growing number of organizations, IT environments encompass a blend of public cloud services, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure—with the latter becoming an ever-smaller portion of the mix. The past two years have seen a major uptick in the use of cloud services, and the trend shows no signs of slowing.

Enterprise cloud use cases are changing and expanding, and companies are now realizing new security challenges that need to be resolved. Cloud security solutions can include everything from new security tools to more advanced training to investing in new team strategies. See below to learn about the tops trends cloud security experts are seeing in the market.

Just flip on Netflix, and you can easily find a few dozen dystopian visions of a climate-ravaged future. As the standard storyline goes, the end of this century will see temperatures rise to ecologically disastrous heights, impacting billions of lives and changing living conditions forever.

2022 will be a watershed year for big data, AI and analytics, with more companies expecting tangible business results. But from IT’s vantage point, there is still much work to be done. Here are 10 New Year’s big data resolutions for IT. 1. Establish a data retention policy Many organizations have just kicked the can down the field, avoiding the big data retention discussion altogether.

You’ve probably heard before that the best thing to do with your extra money is to invest. And the stock market was built so that any average person could do just that. In fact, the New York Stock Exchange was originally just a group of merchants who met in person daily to buy and sell stocks and bonds. Over time, however, regulations were put in place that limited the type of people allowed to take part in the financial markets.

Over the last few years, multicloud frameworks have drifted into the mainstream. Organizations now create, store and manage enormous volumes of data across different cloud platforms. Despite the magnitude of this trend, there’s a stark and often disturbing truth: Businesses often have little or no visibility into much of the data that resides in these clouds. The culprit? Dark data.

The weakest link in most digital networks is the person sitting in front of the screen – the defining feature of the Internet of People (IoP). Because that’s where, through cunning and manipulative tactics, unsuspecting recipients can be tricked into opening toxic links. Little do they know, however, they’ve unwittingly opened the gates to digital catastrophe. Of course, I have nothing against people. In fact, some of my best friends are people!

Digital transformation has remained an important trend in banking in 2021. Similar to its impact on other business domains, technology is gradually reshaping the financial services industry in every aspect. However, the industry has a long way to go, and banks are still dipping their toes in the digital water, with 27% only launching a digital transformation strategy in 2021. Meanwhile, customers have changed too.

As a child in the 70’s who was consumed by technology, I go to experience the user interface changing from computers that only provided a hex keypad for input and 8 individual LED’s for output and memory that was well below 1K of RAM. I was delighted by what you could do with a keyboard and teletype printer. I Remember the green screens, acoustic couplers, Bulletin boards, Perkin Elmer minis that didn’t come with floating point arithmetic.