About: Alex Harris

NCSC Partners with Microsoft to Support Cyber Accelerator Program The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is partnering with Microsoft to support its Cyber Accelerator program. The accelerator supports the growth of startup cyber-companies who aim to bring new better, faster and cheaper security products to market, and find and develop startups that can make the UK…

Employee Awareness Recognised as Biggest Lockdown Security Failing Employee awareness is seen as the biggest area of weakness for firms’ cybersecurity strategies over the past few months of mass remote working during COVID-19, according to a new study. Secure storage firm Apricorn received over 23,500 responses from a poll of its Twitter followers in October exploring business…

Microsoft Teams chats will soon house up to 1,000 participants Microsoft Teams calls are about to get a whole lot bigger after the company confirmed that chats will soon accommodate up to 1,000 participants. With coronavirus restrictions being re-imposed in many countries, the ability to collaborate in larger groups could prove hugely useful to businesses.…

UK-focussed cybersecurity fund eyes £192m final close The Evolution Technology Fund II from New York-based cybersecurity investors Evolution Equity Partners is expected to achieve a targeted £192m ($250m) final close in the coming months and is already investing in UK cybersecurity and enterprise software companies. British Patient Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of British Business Bank,…

How to migrate away from Office 2010 as Microsoft cuts off support Microsoft no longer provides support or bug fixes for Office 2010. What should you do if you're stuck on the ten-year-old version of Office? Microsoft has officially curtailed support for Office 2010 as of Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. That means the ageing version…

Technology and fresh thinking will help us reinvent teamwork As the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of abating, can teams remain productive? The last few months have been challenging for all businesses. As governments across the world took the step of enforcing lockdowns to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, most organisations went from gathering every morning…

Microsoft takes Azure above the clouds It recently tested a datacentre at the bottom of the sea – now Microsoft is heading into space to offer satellite connectivity In a blog post describing the company’s plans, Tom Keane, corporate vice-president, Azure Global, said Microsoft was working to make Azure the platform and ecosystem of choice for…