DoS attacks are still on the rise

Denial-of-Service (DoS) and credential attacks are becoming more popular among criminals, a new report from cybersecurity firm F5 Labs claims.  Analyzing three years’ worth of attacks reported to its Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), F5 found that DoS, brute force, credential stuffing and API attacks are on the rise.  “Attackers, as always, choose the most efficient ways to turn a …

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Social media hacks have affected half of Brits

Social media hacks have become a serious problem for users, with roughly half of Brits (49 percent) having had their accounts compromised or knowing someone who has fallen victim to an attack. This is according to a new report from open industry association FIDO Alliance, based on a poll of 4,000 people in North America, the UK, France, and Germany. …

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Why decentralized IT governance continues to plague enterprise organizations

It’s a question as old as – well, not time, but it’s an old question. How should CIOs and IT professionals at enterprise companies manage software governance? While a smaller or mid-sized company may be able to effectively manage software applications, the more companies scale up, the greater the chance that a department or tech-savvy individual introduces Slack or a …

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Eight essential tech upgrades enterprises must consider for improved productivity

Technological advancements keep changing the face of today’s fast-changing business environment. Nothing can stop this. Take the Covid-19 pandemic, for instance; if nothing else, it ended up boosting the use of technology to keep businesses going.  As per Harris Poll, companies today lose upward of $300 billion a year paying down “technical debt,” as developers pour time into maintaining legacy …

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Global venture funding hit a new record high in Q1 2021

A full year of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in tectonic movements in the business world, with tech companies in particular recording extreme growth. According to a new report from Crunchbase, there are now a greater number of unicorns (companies valued at $1bn or higher) than ever before. The report states that global venture investments hit $125 billion in the …

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Digital transformation leads are under more pressure than ever

With the Covid-19 pandemic making both workers and consumers more dependent on digital services, businesses had to rush to enable remote working and improve the customer experience. Both of these monumental tasks fell on the shoulders of digital architects, who are now reporting being under more pressure to deliver digital projects than ever before. Polling roughly 450 digital architects in …

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Optimizing social commerce as part of an omnichannel retail approach

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the growth of e-commerce over the past year. According to the Retail Sales Index from Great Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), in 2020 online sales grew by 46.1 percent compared to 2019, the largest annual increase since 2008.  Whilst e-commerce as a whole has seen rapid exponential growth, there is one particular aspect that …

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The pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption but left us exposed

One year on from the beginning of lockdowns in the UK, businesses and people alike are more than accustomed to the challenges and perks of working from home. Mass remote working is a sizable shift to working cultures, and it is equally matched by the technological shift which is happening beneath the surface to support this. Rapid multi-cloud adoption has …

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Fusing business and Artificial Intelligence: The ideal way to salvage your now-useless Covid data

Back in February, Gartner issued a very timely warning: that organizations using traditional analytics techniques that relied heavily on large amounts of historical data have had to wake up to a significant post-Covid reality; as many of these models are no longer relevant—and that the pandemic has rendered a lot of that data essentially useless. That’s going to come as …

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Businesses misunderstand their responsibilities when it comes to cloud data security

Covid-19 has led organizations to use cloud for a wider range of use cases, especially as means of data backup. Despite the increase in usage, however, most organizations are still not in the clear about their responsibilities regarding data security and recovery. This is according to a new report from data protection firm StorageCraft, based on a poll of 709 …

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