News tagged: GPDR

10 January, 2019

What does 5G mean for the Internet of Things?

In a world that becomes more connected by the minute and reliant on the infrastructure that permits that connectivity, the approach of 5G is being heralded as a knight in shining armour. With UK rollout scheduled for 2020 – although some mobile networks have alluded to making 5G available sooner than that, some are predicting speeds more than 100 times faster than 4G, and barely detectable levels of lag, writes Leigh Moody the UK managing director of SOTI.

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13 July, 2018

VNF-based SBCs critical for white box security

Simplicity is becoming a major selling point – especially when it comes to IT security, writes Paul German, the chief executive of VoIPSec. As organisations wake up to the huge additional requirements associated with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that comes into force in 2018, any solution that can minimise complexity is compelling.

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14 May, 2018

Build, buy or hire a UC platform: what’s best for who, when and how

Traditionally, service providers built their own telecoms platforms, whether developing in-house or via an external vendor, writes Bertrand Pourcelot, the director general of Centile Telecom Applications.

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27 February, 2018

Ogury enables organisations with Active Insights into customer behaviour

With the launch today of Active Insights, Ogury has introduced what it describes as a complete app ecosystem intelligence system. For mobile operators – and any other type of app publishers – this means user habits, consumption and preferences can be tracked, critically providing insight into where users go to next, writes George Malim.

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04 January, 2018

With less than six months to go, are you GDPR ready?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU’s upcoming data protection law, writes Maurice Woolf, the group general counsel at Interoute. With less than six months until the regulation comes into effect, businesses are busy making sure that they are GDPR-compliant, but what about third-party suppliers – including cloud service providers (CSPs)?

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04 January, 2018

Three advanced analytics predictions for 2018

In 2018, we can expect to see big brand internet players having greater assault on the traditional voice and messaging revenues of the telecoms industry, writes Sundara Raman, a senior telecoms industry consultant at Teradata. As a consequence, communication service providers (CSPs) will look to drive greater efficiencies in the enterprise through optimisation of costs, with focused investments in advanced analytics including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

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11 December, 2017

The importance of securing device data ahead of GDPR

Next year will mark 20 years since the UK Data Protection Act was passed. Fast forward to today and it’s clear how much of a different digital era we are in.

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01 December, 2017

Is data a valuable asset or a business risk? – Part four

In the final part of a four-part series of articles examining how data is a valuable asset as well as a business risk for organisations, Laurence Pitt, the director of security strategy for EMEA at Juniper Networks, explains why proactive datasecurity is essential

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29 November, 2017

Is data a valuable asset or a business risk? – Part three

In the third of a four-part series of articles examining how data is a valuable asset as well as a business risk for organisations, Laurence Pitt, the director of security strategy for EMEA at Juniper Networks, explores the new security threats to data – and the new rules for organisations to follow.

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27 November, 2017

Is data a valuable asset or a business risk? – Part two

In the second of a four-part series of articles examining how data is a valuable asset as well as a business risk for organisations, Laurence Pitt, the director of security strategy for EMEA at Juniper Networks, explores the new data dependency.

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