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Emergency loans offered to civil servants waiting on pensions
2026-01-29 11:27:00| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Cabinet Office Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds says the waits faced by retired civil servants are unacceptable.
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Lanarkshire to become 'one of the world's most advanced AI sites'
2026-01-29 10:46:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
About 800 AI industry jobs will be created with a further 2,600 roles in the construction sector.
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Why some pubs are 'getting it tight' on rates - and what it could mean for your pint
2026-01-29 09:57:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Hotels have overall had an 84% rates increase, while pubs have risen by 47% due to an increase in their property valuations..
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Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER
2026-01-20 17:03:34| The Webmail Blog
Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER jord4473 Tue, 01/20/2026 - 10:03 AI Insights Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER January 27, 2026 By Craig Fretwell, Global Head of Security Operations, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER January 27th, 2026 How to Keep Azure Cloud Costs Under Control with Continuous Optimization January 26th, 2026 Using Agentic AI to Modernize VMware Environments on AWS January 22nd, 2026 How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20th, 2026 Seven Trends Shaping Private Cloud AI in 2026 January 15th, 2026 Related Posts AI Insights Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER January 27th, 2026 Cloud Insights How to Keep Azure Cloud Costs Under Control with Continuous Optimization January 26th, 2026 AI Insights Using Agentic AI to Modernize VMware Environments on AWS January 22nd, 2026 Cloud Insights How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20th, 2026 AI Insights Seven Trends Shaping Private Cloud AI in 2026 January 15th, 2026 RAIDER transforms detection engineering with AI-driven automation and intelligence-led workflows, helping security teams reduce risk, improve accuracy and defend proactively. Modern security teams face an undeniable truth: Data is everywhere, time is scarce and threats never pause. Analysts sort through a constant stream of alerts, logs and intelligence, yet the volume and manual effort required to interpret that information make it difficult to stay ahead of attackers. This is the gap Rackspace Advanced Intelligence, Detection and Event Research (RAIDER) was built to close. The problem we set out to solve Security analysts often operate in a reactive cycle. They spend hours reviewing threat reports, writing detection queries and mapping behaviors to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. Detection engineering work takes longer than it should, and approaches often differ from one analyst to another. Those gaps give attackers room to move before defenses can respond. The operational effects are immediate. Detection and response slow down, false positives increase and teams struggle to scale without adding headcount. The Rackspace Cyber Defense Center needed a way to convert threat awareness into actionable defense and make detection engineering faster, smarter and repeatable. Enter RAIDER RAIDER goes beyond traditional tooling by elevating how security operations work. It accelerates analysis, sharpens detection quality and gives teams the advantage they need to stay ahead of threats. Built as a fully custom back-end platform, RAIDER unifies threat intelligence, streamlines detection engineering workflows and enables proactive threat research. By centralizing how detection logic is created and enriched, it strengthens defense readiness and elevates the speed and consistency of security operations. What makes RAIDER a game changer 1. Unified detection engineering and threat research RAIDER removes the friction of fragmented workflows by bringing intelligence, detection logic and enrichment into one platform. Analysts move with clarity and efficiency. 2. AI-driven detection engineering Powered by the Rackspace AI Security Engine (RAISE), our advanced AI and large language models, RAIDER automates high-quality detection rule creation. Analysts provide intent and context, and RAIDER generates platform-ready detections aligned to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK in minutes. The result is scalable, standardized and repeatable detection engineering. 3. Intelligence-led detection logic RAIDER strengthens detection quality with intelligence that reflects real attacker behavior. Techniques and tactics map directly to MITRE ATT&CK, helping analysts build detections that anticipate and counter relevant threats. 4. Contextual enrichment Each detection includes supporting detail on attacker techniques, tools and behaviors. This context helps analysts understand the reasoning behind a rule and how it protects against emerging patterns. 5. Built for the ecosystem RAIDER integrates seamlessly with cloud-native platforms like Microsoft Sentinel, allowing detections to move from research to production without friction. The business impact RAIDER delivers tangible gains for security teams: Speed: Cuts detection development time by more than half, reducing MTTD and MTTR Accuracy: Intelligence-led detections reduce false positives and wasted effort Scalability: Expands team capacity without increasing headcount Proactive defense: Shifts your organization toward intelligence-driven security These gains strengthen resilience and sharpen operational precision. Whats next for RAIDER RAIDER continues to expand with new capabilities, including: Specialized MITRE TTP detection packs for high-priority techniques APT-focused detection repositories tied to known adversary behaviors Why RAIDER matters RAIDER gives security teams an immediate advantage by turning detection engineering into an intelligence-led discipline that keeps pace with how attackers evolve. It helps organizations move from reactive activity to proactive defense, replacing manual effort with smarter, faster and more consistent detection. Thats RAIDER. Learn more about RAIDER and our other cybersecurity capabilities. Tags: Security AI Insights
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How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability
2026-01-15 20:01:05| The Webmail Blog
How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability jord4473 Thu, 01/15/2026 - 13:01 Cloud Insights How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20, 2026 by Matt Monteleone, Director, Solution Architecture, Rackspace Technology, Simon Bennett, CTO, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20th, 2026 Seven Trends Shaping Private Cloud AI in 2026 January 15th, 2026 From Technical Debt to Digital Agility January 14th, 2026 The Cloud Evolution Why Modernization, Not Migration, is Defining the Next Decade January 12th, 2026 Continuing Success with VMware: How Rackspace Supports Customers and Partners January 12th, 2026 Related Posts Cloud Insights How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20th, 2026 AI Insights Seven Trends Shaping Private Cloud AI in 2026 January 15th, 2026 AI Insights From Technical Debt to Digital Agility January 14th, 2026 Cloud Insights The Cloud Evolution Why Modernization, Not Migration, is Defining the Next Decade January 12th, 2026 Cloud Insights, Products Continuing Success with VMware: How Rackspace Supports Customers and Partners January 12th, 2026 OT/IT convergence increases pressure on energy systems. Learn how leaders protect stability, close skill gaps and modernize critical operations with confidence. OT/IT convergence is accelerating, creating new risks when modernization moves faster than the safeguards that protect critical operations. In the energy sector, digital transformation presents a real paradox. The technologies that boost efficiency, safety and profitability can also create new operational risks when deployed without precision. Across the industry, operators report that a growing share of industrial cyber incidents now originate in IT-connected systems rather than traditional OT networks. Well-intended connectivity projects are creating new pathways into SCADA and control environments that were originally designed to operate in isolation. This shift reflects the pressure facing CIOs across oil and gas and utilities as OT and IT environments converge faster than many organizations can redesign their architectures and operating models. Why OT/IT convergence creates architectural pressure For decades, OT and IT operated in separate worlds. SCADA, ICS and DCS systems were engineered for stability and deterministic control. They werent designed for cloud connectivity, open data exchange or the data-intensive workloads required for modern analytics and AI. IT environments, meanwhile, evolved around agility, frequent updates and hybrid multicloud architectures. Those principles conflict with the uptime demands that define production operations. Today, these environments are intersecting faster than many organizations can redesign their architectures. Upstream: Rigs and offshore platforms generate massive volumes of telemetry, but operationalizing that data requires edge compute and real-time analytics at the wellsite. Extending connectivity to enterprise networks increases latency risks and broadens the attack surface. Midstream: Pipeline integrity monitoring depends on continuous visibility across distributed assets. Yet data is often isolated in operational networks that were never built to integrate with enterprise analytics, slowing incident response and complicating compliance. Downstream: APC systems rely on consistent performance data from legacy historians and ERP platforms. Modernizing these systems without interrupting production is like swapping components on an aircraft in flight. It requires careful sequencing, parallel operations and architectures that let new systems run safely alongside legacy environments until cutover. Utilities: The shift toward renewables, distributed energy resources and smart grid operations adds new layers of complexity. Generation, transmission and distribution teams must manage bidirectional flows, real-time demand response and customer-facing applications while maintaining NERC-CIP compliance and grid reliability. Why the skills gap heightens modernization risk Every technical challenge in energy modernization is amplified by a talent gap. Skilled professionals who understand both industrial systems and modern cloud architectures are in short supply. Retirements widen the gap further as experienced engineers leave without full knowledge transfer. Without the right expertise, organizations face added pressure: modernization timelines slow, operational safeguards weaken and the risk of misconfigurations increases across critical environments. How leading energy teams modernize safely Across the industry, the organizations that strive to reduce complexity and accelerate momentum share a common approach to modernizing critical systems without destabilizing operations. They modernize deliberately, applying practices that reinforce stability and create space for innovation to scale safely. 1. They treat OT/IT integration as a security architecture priority.They apply strict segmentation, zero trust principles and continuous monitoring, recognizing that even small misconfigurations can cascade into downtime or safety incidents. 2. They deploy edge intelligence with clear operational intent.Latency-sensitive processing stays close to the source, with operational data analyzed at the rig, compressor station, substation or refinery. This reduces latency, helps to maintain local control during connectivity issues and supports data governance requirements. 3. They engage partners who provide sustained, specialized expertise.OT security, hybrid cloud operations, edge computing and industrial AI require deep, ongoing capability. Energy operators work with partners who bring proven domain experience and 24x7x365 operational depth to close skill gaps and strengthen reliability. Real-world outcomes A leader in thermal monitoring for utilities and mining worked with Rackspace Technology to deploy predictive maintenance capabilities in four weeks. Within days, customers identified critical anomalies and avoided costly failures. A company specializing in drilling and forecasting analytics scaled its containerized application platform on AWS with support from Rackspace. The engagement strengthened the connection between field operations and enterprise systems and delivered results that would typically require a much larger internal team. These outcomes arent exceptions. They demonstrate whats possible when infrastructure modernization supports operational continuity instead of jeopardizing it. Innovation relies on a stable operational foundation To stay competitive, meet decarbonization targets and sharpen operational efficiency, your organization needs to modernize in ways that strengthennot strainthe systems that keep energy operations running. Success starts with infrastructure that delivers: Secure edge compute for real-time processing at remote sites OT/IT segmentation that reduces the risk of lateral movement and protects control environments Centralized data governance paired with local operational control Predictive analytics for maintenance, optimization and emissions visibility 24x7x365 managed operations to close skills gaps and maintain reliability For upstream teams, this supports drilling optimization and remote operations without exposing critical systems. For midstream operators, it enables continuous leak detection, automated reporting and secure visibility across assets. For downstream refineries, it strengthens APC stability, predictive maintenance and ESG reporting. And for utilities, it accelerates grid modernization and DER integration while maintaining protections that keep the grid stable. Why the balance between innovation and stability will define the next decade As an energy leader, you face pressure from every direction. Boards expect digital innovation. Operations teams demand reliability. Regulators increase requirements. CFOs expect measurable value. But modernization doesnt require choosing between innovation and stability. With the right architecture and the right operational partners, energy companies can modernize with confidence and strengthen resilience at the same time. The complexity doesnt disappear, but it becomes manageable. And once complexity is managed, momentum accelerates. Learn how modern infrastructure and managed operations support safer, faster innovation in the oil and gas industry. Tags: Private Cloud Cloud Insights Oil & Gas
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