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5 Cybersecurity Spending Areas to Evaluate

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:50:01 -0500

As computing environments change and bad actors switch tactics, most organizations will need to increase or redirect their investment in cybersecurity. With inflation pushing up costs, the question most CFOs will seek to answer is...

Remote Work Heightens Privacy and Security Anxiety Among Employees

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:27:28 -0500

Remote workers have higher anxiety levels about security and privacy than other types of employees, according to an international study released Tuesday by a cybersecurity software maker. In a survey by F-Secure of 7,200 people from nine countries, more than two-thirds (67 percent) of remote workers acknowledged...

How telehealth could be an equitable 'bridge to care' in a post-pandemic world

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:55:50 -0500

Before COVID-19 struck in the early months of 2020, telehealth solutions had difficulty gaining traction with U.S. patients, both within and outside the context of employer-sponsored health plans. Sources cite a variety of reasons to explain that slow pre-pandemic growth trend. Two of the most important were...

3 Examples of How Edge Computing Can Give You an Edge

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:21:37 -0500

Nearly all of us thought the Internet was the most revolutionary breakthrough in the storage and transfer of information in the early nineties. Suddenly, there was a way to share information faster than ever before, and this technology unlocked an unbelievable amount of opportunity for business that could never have existed before. A few decades went by, and...

Your CIO's Strategic Wish List For 2022

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 12:51:59 -0500

As the calendar turns a page to a new year, CIOs are reappraising their strategic priorities to address the impact of social, economic and technological trends on the enterprise and the services performed by their IT organizations. Macro concerns include the Great Resignation's impact on labor shortages, high inflation, and...

The 10 best new Microsoft Teams meeting features

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:06:50 -0500

Over the past year or so, Microsoft has added a host of new capabilities to Teams, its chat and videoconferencing hub, focused on improving video meetings with co-workers and other colleagues. Here's a rundown of the key new features to know and how to use them. Note that this guide refers to...

Managing A Remote Workforce

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:00:00 -0500

How we work is an idea that has undergone rapid and considerable change in recent years. One of the more prevalent changes has been a break from the traditional model of the nine-to-five office experience. In addition to increasingly flexible hours...

IBM’s Near Secret HPC Strategic Advantage

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0400

This week I’m with IBM, and as most ex-IBM employees will tell you, once you have Big Blue in your blood you never really get it out. The company has changed a great deal since...

4 Ways to Motivate Your Remote Employees

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0400

The option for remote work is growing in popularity: it’s estimated that 3.9 million Americans work remotely, and that number is expected to continue to rise to...

Exclusive: Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0400

Working remotely can be really tough. To get some insight into how to do it better, Google conducted a two-year study involving data from 5,600 employees across the U.S., Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Approximately 30% of the company’s meetings involve...

Five remote team new year's resolutions

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500

The new year is a great time to ask some fundamental questions about how your project team works together and what needs to change. It's not that there's anything special about January 1, except that

Apple Reassures Customers After Teen Is Busted For Hacking Its Secure Network

Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:24:38 -0400

An Australian teen has pleaded guilty to hacking into Apple's secure network, but Apple says no customer data was compromised. The boy accessed Apple's mainframe from his suburban Melbourne home several times over a year because he was a fan of the US company and dreamed of working there, The Age reports, citing his lawyer. During these intrusions...

The FBI Says You Should Reboot Your Router. Should You?

Thu, 31 May 2018 09:49:29 -0400

Last Friday, the FBI issued a report recommending that everyone reboot their routers. The reason? "Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide." That's a pretty alarming PSA, but also a somewhat vague one. How do you know if your router is infected...

6 Hot Digital Transformation Trends - And 4 Going Cold

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 06:15:16 -0400

Digital transformation has moved beyond a nice-to-have to let's get cracking. Once a top priority for early adopters and cutting-edge enterprises, digital transformation has moved into the mainstream. Few would argue that digital transformation initiatives are vital to the success of their organization. In fact...

How Microsoft Can Enable The Internet Of Things

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:45:00 -0400

As the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon continues to grow, Microsoft has responded by contributing two new editions of Windows 10 - Core and Enterprise - that are aimed at radically different parts of the devices and systems market. Here's how Windows 10 IoT is used today, and where it might be going in the future...

Your Organization Is Under Attack: 5 Cyberattacks And What You Can Learn from Them

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 06:21:13 -0400

It's not a question of if your company will be attacked; it's a question of when. Experts predict cyber crime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 20212. There's a massive shortage of qualified security professionals. Are you prepared for the cybersecurity challenges ahead? In the following, we'll take a look at five of the biggest hacks in the last five years. We'll highlight solutions to help you defend yourself. And...

Four Ways To Improve Your Focus When You Work From Home

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:42:00 -0500

If you want to get more done at work, consider staying at home. People who work remotely three to four days a week are more engaged with their work, according to Gallup's latest "State of the American Workplace" report. Gone are distractions like...

Workplace Investigations 101

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:18:05 -0500

Complaints of harassment and other specific types of workplace misconduct mandate that employers conduct a prompt and thorough investigation. Failure to investigate in a timely manner or not following procedure in an investigation can open the door to costly litigation. In this live online training...

5 Ways To Build Your Company's Defense Against A Data Breach Before It Happens

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:42:14 -0500

Suffering a data breach can be catastrophic for a company - and the people who work there. The realization that security controls have failed and the focus will now be on investigating and remediating the situation is never pleasant, but unfortunately it's becoming all too common as threats magnify. Even more disconcerting is...

Google Built A New Trojan Horse To Get Inside Every Aspect Of Your Life

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:56:24 -0400

Suddenly, Google is starting to look like a hardware company. As the holiday gadget-buying season approaches, Google's offerings are starting to look more like what you'd see from Samsung or Apple, not a search giant. It started this week with...

Active Shooter Workplace Preparedness Planning

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:24:46 -0400

"Active shooter" attacks continue to grab headlines and create anxiety for us all. Recent tragedies include a hospital attack in New York, multiple killings at a UPS facility in San Francisco, and slayings at an Orlando factory and an Ohio nursing home. "It will never happen here," is not a strategy. Usually, it's NOT terrorism. In fact,...

8 Hot IT Hiring Trends - And 8 Going Cold

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:10:52 -0400

We're seeing a number of shifts this year in hiring as technologies mature, new ones emerge and companies work to cut costs by blending full-time IT staff with contract work. While some see the gig economy as a flexible new way to work, one that appeals to solo entrepreneurs, others see a general consequence of the Great Recession. Either way,...

Building Trust Remotely

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:38:18 -0400

Trust is one of the biggest challenges to working remotely. Do you trust that your people are working hard and smart or do you try to micromanage them? Does your boss leave you alone enough to get your work done but not so much that you suspect she forgets you exist? You work hard, but will the rest of the team have your back and meet their commitments?...

How Hackers Broke Equifax: Exploiting A Patchable Vulnerability

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:42:09 -0400

Equifax's terse explanation for its mega-breach in which 143 million Americans' information was put at risk was depressingly predictable: a vulnerability in a piece of web software. What was most depressing, though, was that the flaw was patched back in March. The specific vulnerability lay in Apache Struts, a framework for creating web applications written in Java. The flaw...

MPLS Or IPsec VPN: Which Is The Best?

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:38:20 -0400

Scouring the online IT forums, it's hard not to get sucked-in to all the talk about how MPLS is too expensive and can easily be replaced with high-bandwidth, fiber Internet circuits and an IPsec VPN. If you currently have an MPLS network,...

Equifax Hack -- How To Protect Your Credit And Identity If Your Data Was Compromised

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:18:41 -0400

As widely reported, the credit reporting bureau Equifax was recently hacked. If you have a credit report, you're likely one of the 143 million Americans whose data may have been exposed, according to the Federal Trade Commission. According to Equifax, the breach lasted more than a month, from mid-May until July of this year. The hackers gained access to people's names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and even some driver's license numbers. They also got credit card numbers for 209,000 people and dispute documents with personal information for 182,000 consumers. Unfortunately,...

Privacy Is Not An Option For Surviving In The Digital Age

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:46:49 -0400

"The issue of security and privacy is the defining issue of our age," said Art Coviello, former executive chairman of leading digital security firm RSA, adding, in ominous tones. "Whether we can solve it or not will determine if we are masters of the digital [era] or are its victims." For every great advance of human society,...

4 Tips For Unplugging On Vacation

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:16:52 -0400

As people head off for vacation, the one thing that most will take with them is the office. Unwinding and unplugging are not synonymous when work is just one phone call, email or text away. Technology, which makes connectivity possible in all but the most remote places, is only part of the problem. Thanks to globalization,...

How To Effectively Hire And Manage Remote Employees

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:17:53 -0400

Work has changed. The office is no longer the center of the universe. In today's connected world, more employees are doing work "out there" - either face-to-face with customers, in far-flung locations or simply in their pajamas. This has created new challenges and questions for managers and supervisors:...

7 Hot IT Outsourcing Trends - And 7 Going Cold

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:49:49 -0400

As IT organizations become more strategic, so too do their partnerships with IT outsourcing providers. Digital transformation, automation, and the data revolution are not just shaking up how IT operates, they are greatly impacting the kind - and quality - of services under contract with IT outsourcing firms. Here is a look at the...