Ethernet over FTTx: The hybrid connectivity solution for organizations outgrowing broadband

As businesses grow and evolve, so do their connectivity requirements. Ensuring a modern business has reliable connectivity that meets their needs as they undergo a growth curve, is essential.  As such, connectivity solutions must not only support the required capacity needs of the present, but also be able to scale to suit the demands of tomorrow whilst remaining robust, secure …

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Sustainable IT an afterthought for many organizations

Despite the many benefits of sustainable IT, organizations are paying little attention to the carbon footprint of their IT operations, a new report from the Capgemini Research Institute claims. According to the report, sustainable IT initiatives aren’t getting the attention that other green initiatives enjoy, and with less of a spotlight comes less funding. More than half (57 percent) are …

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How organizations around the globe are continuing to grapple with the impact in-person restrictions are having on supply chain operations

Supply chain operations are under pressure. Twelve months from the beginning of the global pandemic, UK organizations are still struggling with the impact in-person restrictions have had on supply chains. Even though ‘delivery driver’ has become one of UK’s most sought-after jobs in 2020, according to ManPowerGroup, the logistics of ensuring successful last-mile delivery is still difficult to achieve. The …

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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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Organizations upskilling IT staff to deal with security threats

Every day, cyberatacks and growing in complexity and scale. To mitigate these threats, enterprises everywhere are investing increasing sums in upskilling their IT security teams. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which states that almost half (41 percent) of enterprises want to improve the expertize of their in-house specialists. As a matter of fact, this …

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Organizations forced to ramp up pen testing during the pandemic

Covid-19 and the rise of remote working has forced cybersecurity organizations to rethink how they approach penetration testing. According to a new report from cybersecurity firm Core Security, more than a quarter (28 percent) of businesses have increased pen testing, while almost half (45 percent) placed greater emphasis on network security tests. In total, 85 percent said they conduct pen …

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Cybercriminals are finding it much easier to identify vulnerable organizations

Covid-19 has forced many businesses to digitize their operations virtually overnight and adopt new security habits in a very short timeframe. In turn, cybercriminals have adapted to this new environment and have even become more efficient at finding and targeting vulnerable organizations. This is according to a new report from BlackBerry, which details the cybersecurity landscape in the age of …

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Organizations struggling to remedy cloud misfiguration issues efficiently

Cloud infrastructure is becoming an increasingly popular target for watering hole attacks, a new report from Accurics suggests. In this type of attack, criminals strive to either steal data or deliver malware to end users. The cloud is particularly vulnerable because the development processes that leverage managed services are not hidden inside the organization, as they would be in an …

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How effective is threat hunting for organizations?

In recent years threat hunting has become much more widely adopted, but today the definition of threat hunting is still quite a controversial topic.  Threat hunting is the art of finding the unknown in your environment, going beyond traditional detection technologies, with active cyber defense activity, proactively and iteratively searching through networks to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade …

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More than half of organizations that store customer data in the cloud had security incidents in 2020

Of all the companies storing customer data in the cloud, more than half (54 percent) suffered a security incident last year. This is according to a new report from Netwrix, which states that most businesses (62 percent) are contemplating removing sensitive data from the cloud as a result. Some have already done so, it was added. Data theft scenarios are …

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