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Advertisement ISSUE DATE:  04 July 2014 TODAY'S TOP STORIES Interview with the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014: Wendy Hall Cyber fraudsters net up to $3.75bn in Brazil Computer Weekly names the 25 most influential women in UK IT UK cloud adoption swells by 61% in four years

PREMIUM CONTENT Woman in Technology 2014 Are women flourishing in IT ? Find out by downloading the Women in techology report from Computer Weekly and Mortimer Spinks.   NSA insiders reveal what went wrong Former NSA employees explain how the agency missed vital intelligence on 9/11, broke the US constitution through mass surveillance against US citizens, and wasted billions of dollars on technology.

MORE NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM COMPUTERWEEKLY AND THE TECHTARGET NETWORK Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users.  Get your daily dose of Dilbert.   (ComputerWeekly.com) Blender maker adds ServiceNow ITSM to business mix Blender maker Vitamix has rolled out its ServiceNow IT service management (ITSM) beyond the improvement of its IT operation by automating tasks across the business.   Security in the world of Internet of Things Will the Internet of Things bring Cybergeddon upon us? Let's hope not, but the IoT age has arrived and CIOs should be thinking about how to protect it, say security experts from IBM and Intel. (SearchCIO.com) Integrating intelligence key to better security, says FireEye Security threat intelligence is vital, but challenging to implement, says FireEye.  Android is top choice as mobile business operating system Android is the most popular operating system in business according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan.  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.  Bristol City Council launches open data initiative Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.

BLOGS To every male IT leader - it is your responsibility to get more women into IT Congratulations to the 25 most influential women in UK IT - our annual list was announced yesterday, and it contains some amazing, high-achieving individuals (who happen to be women).  Labour's digital rhetoric is increasingly positive towards GDS Labour MP Jon Cruddas gave a speech this week that was barely reported in the press, but contained his party's most significant statements yet about the role of digital and technology in a potential future Labour government.

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