SaaS subscriptions have seen a huge rise
In recent years, people have become less and less interested in owning software, preferring to subscribe to a service and only pay when they use it. According to a new report from subscription management platform provider Zuora, this has been a trend for the past decade, driving major growth among Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses. Polling more than 13,000 adults in 12 …
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Tuning the signal to noise ratio
Ask any security operations analyst about their biggest frustrations, and alert fatigue will be among them. They constantly struggle to identify the serious threat indicators while ignoring the false positives. Scientists and engineers have a name for this balance between useful and irrelevant data. It’s called the signal-to-noise ratio. The signal is the important data, while the noise is everything …
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Many companies still aren’t making the best decisions using their data
Many organizations are still not making the best data-driven decisions, due to complexities in the way it’s stored and analyzed, according to a new report from software companies Starburst and Red Hat. The report states that analytics workloads and demands increased significantly during the pandemic, which has made data access even more critical for the majority of enterprises. However, with …
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App modernization at the heart of digital transformation
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic forced us all indoors, business interest in cloud, as-a-service solutions, edge computing and application security and delivery has surged. This is according to a new report from security firm F5, based on a poll of 1,500 respondents from a range of industries, which argues that businesses are in need of better connectivity, lower latency, as …
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Ransomware is now a multi-billion-dollar industry
Despite some of the most prolific ransomware operators eithering retiring or being shut down by law enforcement, the sector continues to grow in sophistication and scale. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity company Group-IB, which claims ransomware is now a multi-billion-dollar industry, with the average payout sitting somewhere between $150,000 and $170,000. As reported by Bleeping Computer, …
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Vaccine phishing attacks surge as the rollout gathers pace
It appears that cybercriminals have been paying close attention to the news, with the number of Covid-19 vaccine-related spear-phishing attacks surging every time there’s an important announcement or breakthrough. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Barracuda, which analyzes the number of vaccine-related phishing attacks between October 2020 and January 2021, during which period the first vaccines …
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Companies are failing to meet their digital potential
If businesses are to thrive, they will need to become Autonomous Digital Enterprises (ADEs), a new report from software solutions provider BMC suggests. However, at the moment, most businesses are a long way from fulfilling their digital potential. Polling 1,200 business and IT decision-makers, across more than 20 industries and 11 countries, BMC found that businesses practice about two-fifths of …
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Many employees still think their company is behind on digital
Most workers believe their organization is lagging behind when it comes to the digital capabilities to support knowledge work. This is according to a new report from knowledge work platform iManage, which claims that just 23 percent of organizations are ahead of the curve. The company argues this is a major issue, given that knowledge workers (of which there are …
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Best cheap VPN in 2021
Having a good VPN (virtual private network) service these days is in no way overrated. After all, there are plenty of reasons to get one – governments and organizations spying on you or your business, blocking certain content based on your current location, or hackers trying to track you down and get access to your financial information. Although there are …
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The many moving parts of business email compromise
Email-borne scams have existed for almost as long as email has existed. As organizations and security vendors move to protect against common variants of phishing attacks, cybercriminals always seem to stay one step ahead by adapting their techniques to bypass any security measures in place. The latest variant of email scams plaguing organizations hide their complex machinations under a veneer …
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