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Business owners prioritize investment in technology over upskilling
Business owners say their strategy is to prioritize investing in technology (52%) over upskilling (24%) their workforce, according to Adecco. The research titled, People, …
Organizations expect to boost their cybersecurity investments by 34%
Annual losses from cyberattacks averaged $4.7 million in the last fiscal year — with more than one in 10 firms losing over $10 million —according to a new report from ESI …
How companies innovate as they face industry disruption
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of industry sectors experienced an increase in disruption over the past eight years, leaving $41 trillion in enterprise value (market …
How institutions, advisors, and investors think about digital assets
Institutional investors are finding appeal in digital assets and many are looking to invest more in digital assets over the next five years, according to new research from …
C-Suite execs and policy makers find cybersecurity technology investments essential
The majority of C-Suite executives and policy makers in the United States believe investing in security software, infrastructure and emerging technologies is critical to …
Global spending on digital transformation to reach $1.18 trillion in 2019
Enterprises around the world are making significant investments in the technologies and services that enable the digital transformation (DX) of their business models, products …
Worldwide IT spending to grow just 1.1% in 2019
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.79 trillion in 2019, an increase of 1.1 percent from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Currency headwinds …
SaaS spending increasing by 78 percent year-over-year
43% of the average company’s SaaS application stack changed in the last two years, according to the 2019 Annual SaaS Trends report. This is far greater than the typical …
The most effective security strategies to guard sensitive information
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructures are not largely hosted in the public cloud, nor are they SaaS-based, with security being the single largest barrier when it comes to …
Security priorities are shifting in response to increased cybersecurity complexity
The increased complexity of the IT environment, combined with increasingly sophisticated attacks and a rapidly evolving threat landscape, is causing organizations to invest …
Rain Capital: Venture fund seeks to back cybersecurity companies led by women and minorities
A new venture fund that will focus on providing capital, strategy, critical resources and unique insights to early-stage cybersecurity companies in Silicon Valley has been …
To pay hackers’ ransom demands or to invest in more security?
One third of global business decision makers report that their organization would try to cut costs by paying a ransom demand from a hacker rather than invest in information …