Retailers lack big data skills

Big data and analytics have become top agenda items for a growing number of retail executives. Yet many retailers do not yet have mature BDA competencies across five critical dimensions — intent, people, process, technology and data. This is one of the findings from...

UK Ministry of Justice comes under attack

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the UK Ministry of Justice’s Web site, which brought it down yesterday for several hours, would have been difficult to defend against. Ian Shaw, MD of IT security company MWR InfoSecurity, comments: “This sort of...