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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Businesses are struggling to keep track of their cloud spending

Businesses are adopting cloud services at a massive scale, but are struggling to keep track of their spending. This is according to a new report from the FinOps Foundation, a non-profit trade association that seeks to establish industry standards for cloud financial management, as per a ZDNet report. Polling more than 800 FinOps practitioners (people tasked with monitoring, measuring and …

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Most businesses struggling to optimize public cloud

Businesses everywhere are becoming increasingly confident in the public cloud and are using it more than ever before. However, they are still struggling to optimize its performance, often unable to ensure seamless availability and always-on access. This is according to a new report from Barracuda, based on a poll of 800 global IT decision makers, which claims that almost four …

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Data is the main differentiator for companies struggling with the pandemic

If businesses are able to build the right operating environment and the proper incentives to create a data-centric culture, they are likely to better handle the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a new report from Accenture, which claims that businesses across a range of sectors have had to delay significant projects during the pandemic, which …

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Businesses struggling to implement hybrid cloud effectively

Even though most companies see hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model, many are having trouble implementing it. This is according to a new report from enterprise cloud computing firm Nutanix, which states that digital transformation took longer than expected for 70 percent of organizations. Almost all of the companies polled think they would benefit from an “optimal” hybrid implementation, …

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Security teams are struggling to curb employees’ risky work behaviors online

Warnings from security experts about the myriad of threats lurking online have fallen on deaf ears, as the majority of employees are still actively engaged in unsafe and unproductive web activity when they should be working. This is according to a new report from Censornet, based on a poll of 300 cybersecurity pros, which states that two thirds (67 percent) …

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