Application security has risen to the top of the agenda for security professionals striving to control their overall risk profile. According to US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) and Gartner, 75% of new attacks target the application layer and software vulnerabilities have reached... 

Peter Marconi, Senior VP of Engineering at Virtual Computer, talks about how NxTop, Virtual Computer's baremetal client hypervisor, and 2nd generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors work together to deliver a secure, desktop virtualization solution. Watch this informative video to learn how to increase your PCs manageability and performance. 

In this week's Computer Weekly: we visit Cape Town to find out how the South African city worked with SAP to manage citizen services. Tesco tells us how it saved £100m in its supply chain by using business analytics. And we examine Microsoft's response to the lukewarm reaction given by customers to Windows 8. Read the issue now. 

Matt Grant talks with Randy Abrams about security issues with hotel business center computers. These are public computers and they often have insufficient security features. In this podcast, Randy shares some interesting things he’s found in hotel computers and gives some advice on using them safely. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, with the sweeping reorganisation of the NHS now in place, we look at IT in the health service. Dell releases details of its planned management buy-out, revealing the dire state of the PC market. And we visit Bletchley Park to hear about the quest to rebuild the Colossus codebreaking computer. Read the issue now. 

General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). This white paper explains how your business can get TCO as low as possible. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at IBM's work with England's rugby team and Premier League football on how business analytics can improve the chances of winning at sport. We find out the issues to consider when negotiating cloud contracts. And we examine how software-defined networking will automate network management. Read the issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, now the 4G spectrum auction is over, we look at what happens next for the future of mobile networking. Cloud computing promises to save costs – we examine how to ensure a return on investment. And we report from the RSA conference on how big data is helping tackle cyber security threats. Read the issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at the new smartphone from BlackBerry – it's designed to please both business and consumer users, but is it enough to save the company? We examine the options for using cloud services for disaster recovery. And IT leaders tell us what they think about the future of the data centre. Read the issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we ask if the days of the PC refresh cycle are over, due to declining PC sales, consumer technology and virtualisation. Remote working can be a challenge – but one project manager is doing so on Mount Everest. And we kick-off our latest buyer's guide, looking at infrastructure needs for big data. Read the issue now. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more.