Why digital transformation for enterprises relies on 5G private networks

Enterprises are continually seeking ways to improve business outcomes. Productivity, operational efficiency, quality, cost, workplace safety, revenue growth and sustainability are all areas that dictate the success or failure of a business. To realize such outcomes, an outstanding digital infrastructure is essential. 5G is the technology that promises to enable new services and applications that will allow enterprises to address …

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How enterprises can steer a competitive advantage by digitally optimizing their products

Covid-19 has impacted different aspects of everyone’s lives across the globe. Businesses experienced one common impact from the Covid-19 pandemic – the push to accelerate their digital transformation journey. According to a 2021 IDC report, by 2023 more than 500 million digital applications and services will be developed and taken to market — an explosion of apps in just two …

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Cybercriminals are launching attacks against enterprises over social media

Social media is an important channel of communication between enterprises and their customers, and cybercriminals are taking advantage. A new report, published by digital risk protection solutions provider PhishLabs, claims the number of attacks conducted via social media rose by 47 percent through the first half of the year. Based on an analysis of hundreds of thousands of phishing and …

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Most enterprises are failing to use data to create value for customers

Although the effective use of data can go a long way to improving customer experience, only a minority of businesses are managing to achieve their data goals, new research shows. A report from database company DataStax states that, while almost all (96%) enterprises have a formal data strategy in place, just 38% claim they are able to use data to …

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Large enterprises struggle to find personnel to maintain legacy IT systems

As the older generation of workers begins to retire, many businesses are left with legacy IT systems and no one to maintain or modernize them. This is according to a new report from software provider Advanced, based on a poll of 400 people working for large enterprises, which states that 89 percent worry about not having access to the right …

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Why are enterprises transitioning from MFA to zero trust security?

Zero trust is a new way of thinking about breaches. It says that no person – not even the most important ones — should be trusted. In theory, if a user passes an additional barrier for access (e.g., question-answer-based multi-factor authentication), businesses can trust that they are who they claim to be.  In practice, we know this is not always …

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Three reasons small and midsize enterprises need better disaster recovery strategies

If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the importance of cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Indeed, when local and state governments announced stay at home orders in the spring of 2020, migration to the cloud accelerated dramatically as IT teams scrambled to ensure employees could connect and collaborate remotely, as well as access mission-critical company data …

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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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Why integrating digital into your DNA is a matter of survival for established enterprises

It’s simply no longer enough to rely on the ‘too big to fail’ principle.  In 1958, large enterprises could expect to stay in the Standard and Poor (S&P) stock market index for more than half a century with little disruption from smaller companies. Over 60 years later, today, this has been significantly reduced to under eighteen years and unsurprisingly, this …

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Level up: The importance of security certification for startups when dealing with global enterprises

In today’s fast-paced world, the security threats facing large global enterprises are increasingly complex and ever-changing. As such, global enterprises with thousands of employees need to be stringent with their policies to protect their business and customers. In 2019, the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport released statistics showing that almost half of UK businesses suffered a cybersecurity …

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