Aftermath of CrowdStrike Global Outage
Many people likely hadn’t heard of CrowdStrike before July 19, the day it became infamous for triggering widespread blue screens of death. What started as a flawed security update in Australia quickly cascaded across the globe, disrupting air travel, halting banking services, delaying medical procedures, and causing flight cancellations. This unprecedented global IT outage, caused […]
Cloud Trends to keep an eye on in 2024
Anticipated Surge in Cloud Investment The most foreseeable trend in 2024 revolves around the persistent and substantial increase in expenditure on cloud computing infrastructure. This surge will be, in part, fueled by the widespread adoption of generative AI applications such as large language models, for instance, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. Consequently, organizations are expected […]
Terraform fork gets renamed OpenTofu, and joins Linux Foundation
When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups that were built on top of the popular open source project. The community went into action and within weeks they had written a manifesto, and soon after that launched an official fork called […]
The Personal Benefits of Coaching
The Personal Benefits of Coaching The personal benefits of coaching are as wide-ranging as the individuals involved. Our clients report that coaching positively impacted their careers as well as their lives by helping them to: Coaching in organisation and leadership settings is also an invaluable tool for developing people across a wide range of needs. […]
Compliance in the Cloud
Compliance in the Cloud There are a lot of amazing things about moving your business to the cloud. You can scale rapidly. You generally have additional redundancy, and a higher level of security than you would enjoy with your servers hosted locally. You can reduce your Capex costs. Best of all you can access your […]
Privacy Policy
1.Introduction In its everyday business operations CyberScot makes use of a variety of data about identifiable individuals, including data about: Current, past and prospective employees Customers Users of its websites Subscribers Other stakeholders In collecting and using this data, the organisation is subject to a variety of legislation controlling how such activities may be carried […]
IASME rebrands its flagship Information Security Standard to IASME Cyber Assurance
The standard previously known as the IASME Governance Standard has been relaunched with a new name, a revised logo and refreshed focus. The IASME Cyber Assurance is an affordable security standard that gives assurance that an orginisation has put in place a range of important cyber security, privacy and data protection measures. One of the […]
Why use Azure Cloud for your business services?
Azure Cloud Services Value(s) According to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting for Microsoft, Azure reduces the time required to manage applications by 80% and the time to deploy new applications by 50%. This allows businesses to focus on innovation with applications instead of basic administrative tasks. Indeed, there are many productivity gains to be made with Azure. Likewise, […]
Net Zero – A sustainable IT for the future
From user devices to data centers and networks, information technologies powering modern businesses have significantly high carbon footprint. Further, energy consumption by these technologies is expected to increase three-fold from 2010 to 2025 with a corresponding carbon (equivalent) footprint comparable to that of half-a-billion cars! With a clear global imperative to halt climate change across […]
Auto start Azure VMs on a Schedule using Azure DevOps Pipelines
Prerequisites: Azure Subscription Azure Resource Group DevOps Orginisation Azure Service Principal Virtual Machine Setting up Service Principal 1. Open Azure Active Directory 2. Open App Registrations Enter a name and click Register Click Certificates & Secrets then New client secret. Enter a Description and select how long the secret will be valid for. Copy the […]