Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure
Bottom Line: Excelling at compliance doesn’t protect any business from being hacked, yet pursuing a continuous risk management strategy helps. With a few exceptions (such as spearphishing), cyberattacks are, by nature, brutally opportunistic and random. They are driven to disrupt operations at best and steal funds, records, and privileged access credentials at worst. Conversely, the […]
How To Build A Business Case For Endpoint Security
Bottom Line: Endpoint security business cases do much more than just quantify costs and benefits; they uncover gaps in endpoint and cyber protection that need urgent attention to avert a breach. Bad actors and hackers prefer to attack threat surfaces that are isolated, vulnerable with out-of-date security patches, yet integrated into a corporate network to […]
How To Know If An E-Mail Is Trustworthy
Bottom Line: Phishing is the leading cause of all breaches, succeeding because impersonation, redirection, and social engineering methods are always improving. And, phishing is only one way emails are used in fraud. Businesses need to understand if an email address can be trusted before moving forward with a transaction. Microsoft thwarts billions of phishing attempts […]
Why Your Biometrics Are Your Best Password
Bottom Line: Biometrics are proving to be better than passwords because they’re easier to use, provide greater privacy and security, and are gaining standardization across a broad base of mobile, desktop, and server devices that users rely on to access online services. In keeping with the theme of this year’s RSA Conference of Human Element, […]
SAP’s Integration Urgency
Talking about the heady days in the late 90s, one of SAP’s best salespeople had reminisced: “It was a truly transformational time for the technology industry. We replaced thousands of departmental and mainframe systems. We put MSA, M&D, and many…
The Most Innovative Tech Companies Based On Patent Analytics
Microsoft, Apple, and IBM lead the world in hardware & software patent innovation according to PatentSight. Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics. Alphabet, Qualcomm, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and VW are the ten most innovative companies in the world, according to PatentSight’s patent analytics research. Ford leads the global automotive industry in patent innovation, due […]
Why Cybersecurity Needs To Focus More On Customer Endpoints
Cloud-based endpoint protection platforms (EPP) are proliferating across enterprises today as CIOs and CISOs prioritize greater resiliency in their endpoint security strategies going into 2020. Gartner predicts that Global Information Security and Risk Management end-user spending is forecast to grow at a five-year CAGR of 9.2% to reach $174.5 billion in 2022, with approximately $50B […]
The Best IoT Companies To Work For In 2019 Based On Glassdoor
Employees would most recommend the following companies to their friends looking for a job in IoT: IGEL, SAP, ARM, Fortinet, Google, Microsoft, Bosch, Samsara, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Dell Technologies, Red Hat, Cisco Systems and Trend Micro. These 14 companies are the highest rated by employees working for them based on a comparison of Computer Reseller News’ Internet of Things 50, 2019 with their respective Glassdoor scores as of today, Sunday, August 18, […]
5 Ways To Demystify Zero Trust Security
Bottom Line: Instead of only relying on security vendors’ claims about Zero Trust, benchmark them on a series of five critical success factors instead, with customer results being key. Analytics, Zero Trust Dominated RSA Analytics dashboards dominated RSA from a visual standpoint, while Zero Trust Security reigned from an enterprise strategy one. Over 60 vendors claimed […]
Vodafone’s 2019 IoT Barometer Reflects Robust Growth In The Enterprise
85% of enterprises who develop deep expertise with IoT succeed at driving revenue faster than competitors. 81% of enterprises say Artificial Intelligence streamlines interpreting and taking action on data insights gained from IoT systems and sensors. 68% of enterprises are using IoT to track the security of physical assets, making this use case the most […]
