CQ-internet Technology

In a first survey of broadband and mobile network operators around the globe, network test, monitoring and assurance solutions provider Viavi has revealed an industry where despite substantial increases in traffic, current networks in large part met the global challenges created by the pandemic.

The 2021 Network test survey explored insights into how the pandemic and other trends are shaping test and assurance priorities in 2021 and beyond. Data was compiled from a survey answered by the Technology Innovation Council (TIC), a research initiative enabling telecommunications service provider executives to provide insight into global business and technology trends.

The TIC

It is 26 November 2020. We’re doing work for a medium-sized global enterprise that’s been hit by the Dharma ransomware. I’m sipping coffee while on a call with the IT director, discussing the plan for getting users back up and running after they’ve restored their systems from backups (the company’s IT team had the foresight to run regular backups and keep them air-gapped from its network – I wish more companies would do this). 

I ask him if he’s considered deploying multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the company’s users, as it helps to stop prevent malicious login attempts if credentials

The Conservative Party did act illegally in its collection of data relating to the ethnicity and religion of British voters, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee on Online Harms and Regulation has heard.

An Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) report, published in November 2020, revealed that the Conservatives bought onomastic data – a term that refers to information derived from the study of someone’s name – that identified a person’s country of origin, ethnic origin and religion based on that data and appended it to the records of 10 million voters.

Speaking to the