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How digital leaders built a foundation for resiliency in the face of disruption
During the past year, digital leaders deployed a remote workforce, engaged customers via contactless delivery and weathered various business disruptions throughout the year. …

A strategic approach to identity verification helps combat financial crime
70% of financial services organizations are taking a strategic approach to identity verification to combat financial crime and stay one step ahead of fraudsters according to …

Week in review: Keeping serverless architecture secure, trends influencing remote work in 2021
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: March 2021 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes yet another actively exploited IE zero-day …

Two new ways backup can protect enterprise SaaS data
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps are a treasure trove of information. They’re where business takes place and decisions get made, so it’s not surprising that they’re …

Compromised devices and data protection: Be prepared or else
The January 6 riot and storming of the U.S. Capitol demonstrated just how quickly and unexpectedly our devices can fall into the wrong hands. The allegation that one rioter …

Rise in remote work leads to increase in IT security gaps
Companies have not done enough to prevent heightened security risk in light of remote working, according to Lynx Software. In fact, 36% have been, or know someone who has …

Can private data be recovered from “sanitized” images?
Machine learning systems are becoming pervasive not only in technologies affecting our day-to-day lives, but also in those observing them, including face expression …

Most IT pros manage different versions of the same database
The vast majority (82%) of IT professionals admit that they manage different versions of the same database, and 74.4% run into issues with their current data warehouses, …

85% of workers are looking forward to returning to the office
At the 1 year mark of quarantine, 85% of office workers are looking forward to returning to the office in some capacity, according to Eden Workplace. The survey was conducted …

Passing a compliance audit in the cloud doesn’t have to be hard
Companies are required to comply with regulations that set standards specific to financial and size thresholds, industry type, customer categories, or other parameters. But …

Alert overload still plagues cybersecurity industry
Alert overload still plagues the cybersecurity industry, according to Critical Start. Forty-seven percent of respondents reported personally investigating 10 to 20 alerts each …

Defending enterprise systems during a pandemic
A new report from Akamai looks back at 2020, examining some of the technological shifts and the patterns that emerged from lockdown-related internet spikes at the beginning of …
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