If you’re not familiar with the language of cloud, it can be difficult to understand how IaaS, PaaS or SaaS can benefit your business. It also makes it more challenging to choose the best option for you. The main differences between these solutions lie in the split of management responsibilities; each offers a different balance of what is managed on-premises by yourselves, and what is outsourced to your cloud vendor. Which solution you need will depend on the specific requirements of your organisation, but let’s start with some simple definitions. What is infrastructure as a service (IaaS)? To understand what’s provided by IaaS, you first need to have a good grasp of what infrastructure is. Infrastructure refers to all your servers, computers, hard drives, routers and the wires that…
Last week the FBI sent out an alert warning of four new DDoS attack vectors that have been identified. Of these, three have already been exploited, resulting in several large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks across the globe. The four new vectors are: Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) …
This guest post was authored by UKFast Head of Security, Stephen Crow. There’s a direct correlation between good network visibility and effective network security. That’s because network visibility is the key to improving your organisation’s security policies and procedures, resulting in fewer opportunities for cybercriminals, more rapid threat…
Yesterday, several high-profile Twitter accounts were accessed by hackers and used as part of a bitcoin scam. Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Uber and Apple were amongst those targeted by the attackers, who posted scam links promising that donations made to a bitcoin wallet would be doubled by the account holder. The…
