How can service providers address security concerns in today’s world?

Data breaches continue to make the headlines with the cost of breaches reaching a record high in 2021. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021, the average cost of a stolen data record now stands at $161, and the average overall cost of data breach incident stands at $4.24 million. Not only are the costs of …

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How businesses can ensure a smooth digital transformation journey in a post-pandemic world

There’s no doubt that the global pandemic utterly transformed the face of business. In some cases, and industries, the result is beyond all recognition. The need to keep employees and customers safe and limit the spread of the virus led to many organizations rethinking their entire business delivery model almost overnight. As a result, the crisis and the chaos that …

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Government IT spending set to soar in post-pandemic world

As they look to modernize their infrastructure in the post-pandemic world, governments around the globe are expected to increase their spending on IT tech, according to a new Gartner report that forecasts IT spending will hit $557.3 billion in 2022 – up 6.5 percent compared to this year. “Governments will continue to accelerate investments in digital technologies to respond and …

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Introducing the project economy – the engine ready to power a Brave New World

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, it was considered a downplay of the technological optimism that typified the period of change after the First World War. An early reviewer said Huxley had an “inability to believe really in anything”. Fast forward the best part of a century and – emerging from a global pandemic – we too …

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The need for context-based access in a remote work world

Identity management and access governance is critical for enterprises in a world where the threat and regulatory landscapes are continually evolving. A lack of access control and automated provisioning can be costly for your organization, in more ways than one. It means new employees and contractors may be given access to systems they should not have access to and that can …

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The principles of patching in a hybrid world

The majority of data breaches occur due to inadequate patching. Fact. Data from The Ponemon Institute found that 60 percent of breach victims said they were breached due to an unpatched known vulnerability where the patch was not applied.   This is even more the case in the hybrid workplace, which is here to stay according to Gartner, where teams …

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Securing business communications in a post-Covid world

The current pandemic has changed our world beyond all recognition, forcing us to urgently adapt ‘old ways’ and prioritize safety above all else. In business terms, this has translated into the acceleration of remote working and digital transformation, prompting a greater reliance on digital communications, governed by the need to avoid physical contact wherever possible.  In the Netherlands last spring, …

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The modernization of health and pharma analytics in a post-Covid world – Five predictions

One year ago, the Covid-19 pandemic changed the world and forced many organizations to demonstrate resilience and adaptability. Collaboration across the health and life sciences global ecosystem accelerated, resulting in new therapies and medical discoveries. At every level – from patients to cost to quality to outcomes – analytics became increasingly important to drive insights, make informed decisions and realize …

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Three trends to watch in a post-Covid-19 world

What a difference a year makes. For a long time, remote and home working was looked upon with a degree of suspicion, particularly among verticals with longer histories, and certainly in those environments in which colleagues have needed to gather physically to make sure they’re all seeing the same thing. But, having been forced by Covid-19 to adapt and innovate …

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Securing the edge of your world

As IT and Comms networks get ever more complicated, and the ongoing global pandemic increases business reliance on Unified Communications and applications like Teams and Zoom, the potential surface for attack by bad actors and fraudsters widens. What’s more, the way some of these applications work, serves to heighten the risk, as Justin Hart, Cloud and Edge CTO at Ribbon …

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