by Kai | Dec 16, 2019 | Data in Asset Management News
I don’t know how many readers of this article were fans of IT Crowd, the British comedy series from the late 2000s, following three staff members who work in the IT department of a fictitious company. The show is responsible for phrases that are now well and truly part of our vernacular, such as ‘Have you tried turning it off and on again?’ But one of my favourite episodes of the show relate to Google. It’s where Jen says, ‘If you type Google into Google, you can break the internet.’ Of course that can’t happen and Jen’s co-workers, Moss and Roy, knew this all along.
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by Kai | Dec 12, 2019 | Data in Asset Management News
We are all connected: to each other, to our devices, and to a vast number of systems within the government and private sectors. This is quite obviously due to the arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT), those wearable and portable devices that connect us to the internet. Such gadgets yield copious amounts data, and present both huge challenges and fabulous ways to build value. Known as big data, it has totally revolutionised the way many businesses and organisations operate.
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by Kai | Dec 8, 2019 | Data in Asset Management News
You can’t be in the contemporary world and be unaware of data: its volume, its importance, and its pitfalls. Whenever we download an app, or buy something online, or even just sign up to a newsletter, we are giving the business our personal data. That business then has the opportunity to leverage that data to its own benefit.
Take Google, for example. The powerhouse began as a simple search engine in the late 1990s, but has woven its way into knowing every aspect of our lives: job searching to dating, where we travel and what we buy. The data—to say nothing about the huge breach in privacy currently being investigated by the ACCC—held by Google is beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
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by Kai | Nov 12, 2019 | Data in Asset Management News
Recently, while dabbling on my personal laptop at home, I decided it was time to delete my spam folder. I clicked on the folder and waited for the emails to flood in. As well as just clearing for the sake of clearing it, I was looking for a specific email that I hadn’t yet received, despite the sender assuring me it had been sent.
And then I found something that made my heart leap outta my chest and my eyes pop wide.
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by Kai | Nov 11, 2019 | Data in Asset Management News
It seems commonplace to read about a cyberattack, or at least the threat of one, on our systems, products and services. With the increase in big data held by governments and businesses, and the upsurge in the internet of things, it would appear that the threat environment evolves too quickly for protection methods to keep up.
Don’t despair though. Keeping Australia safe and maintaining confidence from the wider community is high on the federal government’s agenda.
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by Kai | Sep 1, 2019 | Data in Asset Management News
What might it feel like, I wonder, to step outside your front door and be followed by a drone. Every step you take, every move you make, it’ll be watching you – is the tune by The Police buzzing around your head – recording you, collecting data about you. Imagine the sky filled with drones, all of them targeting numerous individuals at once.
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