Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Web/Tech

  • Clive Longbottom, Client Services Director of analyst firm Quocirca, says that ransomware attacks don’t usually begin with a DDoS attack: “This is quite an unusual one. The core ransomware attacks are carried out through dropping emails or web links through to individuals who then download a payload onto their machine. That payload then, at some…

  • There is one crucial hurdle that the researchers need to overcome: The data is not readily available, and so people need to be encouraged to share their biological data. Even in this field, data privacy is important and people will want to know that the data is being used for a good purpose. You must…

  • “By January 2018 banks must comply with the EU’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), intended to improve online payment protection, encourage payment services innovation, and make cross-border payments safer. We’re finally entering the modern age of payments and it’s happening because the regulators are forcing digital transformation through changes such as PSD2, which affects every…

  • ComputerWeekly’s Cliff Saran wrote that “AWS Outage Shows Vulnerability of Cloud Disaster Recovery” in his article of March 6, 2017. He cites the S3 outage suffered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) on February 28, 2017, as an example of the risks you face by running critical systems in the public cloud. “The consensus is that…

  • Now there is Edge Computing, which some people are also calling Fog Computing and which some industry commentators feel is going to replace the Cloud as an entity. Just about every new piece of technology is considered disruptive to the extent that they are expected to replace older technologies. Sometimes as with the cloud, old…

  • Organisations are so quick to adopt new technologies that they often overlook the value legacy devices have to offer. Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Solutions at Avere Systems thinks that while oil and water don’t mix, legacy and cloud do in comparison. In spite of the hype about moving applications to the cloud and about…

  • Challenges for insurers devising policy plans for ADAS and autonomous explored by Graham Jarvis. By reputation the insurance industry is often seen as a slow-moving beast but research suggests that their pace is changing. It seems that insurers are keenly embracing new technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and they are taking steps…

  • There is an overarching fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are going to take over people’s jobs, but there is a counter argument that their main purpose is to support humans as enabling technologies. In their proponents’ viewpoint, they aren’t disabling anyone.  However, organisations that don’t train up their staff now to learn…

  • With the global market for digital mobility services forecast to grow to $2Trn by 2025, Frost and Sullivan suggests there is much continued private sector interest in digital mobility services and, as result of this trend, the firm says there is a readiness to combine different modes of transport to the extent that the “lines…

  • Clive Longbottom, Client Services Director at analyst firm Quocirca commented on Facebook: “I’m assuming that should this NHS attack be shown to be down to cost-cutting measures and corner-cutting by the many private companies involved, they will be held responsible for the financial costs involved, and that their management will be held responsible for manslaughter…