data protection

Kaseya’s 2026 ranking of server backup software puts Datto SIRIS, Unitrends, Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, MSP360, NAKIVO, Cohesity, Rubrik, Commvault, and Veritas NetBackup into a market now defined less by backup jobs than by ransomware recovery. The list is...

A home NAS can be made faster, quieter, safer, and more useful over a single weekend by adding lightweight containerized services, improving network throughput, reducing drive vibration, connecting a USB-aware UPS, and scheduling automated disk health checks. The cheapness is the point: the best...

Microsoft’s April 2026 disclosure of CVE-2026-40372 is a reminder that ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities are not always about flashy remote exploitation; sometimes the danger is a very specific deployment pattern colliding with the wrong binary at runtime. In this case, Microsoft says the flaw...

The vulnerability in CVE-2026-40372 is the kind of ASP.NET Core issue that hides in plain sight: many teams will see the package in their dependency graph, assume they are covered by the shared framework, and miss the fact that the NuGet copy may be the one actually executing at runtime...

ETH Zurich is moving AI in teaching from experimentation into a more structured, institution-wide support model. The latest Staffnet guidance makes clear that lecturers are no longer expected to navigate generative AI alone; instead, they are being offered workshops, managed tools, and project...

The Welsh Government is not, in any literal sense, handing over redundancy decisions to a machine. But it is increasingly clear that AI systems are moving into the spaces where public bodies make sensitive judgments about workers, performance, and management, and that shift demands far more...

Microsoft is preparing a meaningful expansion of Dataverse data protection: the ability to restore deleted table records is slated for General Availability in late April 2026, with Microsoft saying the rollout will include refinements informed by customer and MVP feedback. The change addresses a...

Flintshire County Council’s move toward a formal AI policy is a telling sign of how local government is trying to catch up with a technology that is already seeping into day-to-day public services. The council’s Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee has recommended Cabinet adopt...

The Spiceworks Voice of IT snapshot of enterprise backup choices reveals a simple but powerful truth: IT professionals pick backup vendors with trust in mind first, and they define trust in very different ways. The headline finding — that reliability and brand reputation beat price, features...

Local councils across the UK are accelerating their adoption of artificial intelligence for frontline tasks such as meeting transcription, case-note drafting and public‑consultation analysis — and recent reporting and committee papers have reopened a fraught debate about whether those tools are...

Teramind’s new platform arrives at an inflection point: enterprises are no longer asking whether they should use AI agents — they are asking how to control, audit, and insure them when they act faster than humans and beyond traditional security tooling. Background / Overview The rapid adoption...

Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from a classroom novelty to a supervised, curriculum-shaped reality in many UAE schools — but the way it’s being introduced is as notable for what it restricts as for what it enables. Background / Overview The UAE’s national education authorities...

Microsoft’s flagship workplace assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized email messages that organizations had explicitly labeled Confidential, a logic error the company logged internally as service advisory CW1226324 and that has forced a re‑examination of how embedded...

People often treat ChatGPT and its peers like private assistants — but when you type, upload, or speak sensitive material into a chatbot, you may be handing away control of that information in ways most users don’t expect. The short list published by mainstream outlets — identity documents...

AvePoint’s evolution from a Microsoft‑centric migration and protection vendor into an AI‑aware data governance platform makes it an obvious candidate for attention in 2026 — and not just because short‑term market dynamics favor growthy SaaS names. Recent product moves that put AI adoption...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio now offers xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast in preview, opening a new lane in the multi‑model ecosystem for enterprise agent builders. The addition—available today in early access environments for United States‑based makers and off by default until an organization administrator...

Enterprise IT is hurtling toward an inflection point where AI is no longer an optional productivity layer but a persistent, machine‑speed conduit for both business value and cyber risk—and the latest ThreatLabz analysis from Zscaler makes that danger unmistakably clear. Released January 27...

Capita’s decision to put Microsoft Copilot at the front line of its recovery plan for the Civil Service Pension Scheme is a striking gamble: it promises faster triage, automated summarisation and smarter prioritisation for an inherited backlog that has already created real hardship for retired...

Corrections has quietly moved from piloting generative tools to policing them: after a small number of staff were found to have used Microsoft Copilot Chat to help draft formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — the department has labelled that behaviour “unacceptable,”...

Most social workers now describe their early experience of artificial intelligence as a practical relief rather than a dystopian threat: a Community Care poll reported that the majority of practitioners who have trialled AI tools for administrative tasks rate the experience positively, and...