When the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations everywhere to shift to a remote work strategy, IT teams became overwhelmed with scaling up and securing their organization’s remote workforce. According to new research from NTT Data, IT teams are no more prepared than they were before the pandemic, with just 23% of 1,000 business and IT executives […]
Customer experience software provider Freshworks has announced it is moving deeper into the IT operations management market with new capabilities to its Freshservice IT service desk platform designed to help IT and engineering teams respond to incidents and reduce downtime. Announced during Freshworks’ Refresh conference Thursday, the new Freshservice capabilities aim to unify incident response […]
IT admins of Microsoft systems have 55 new vulnerabilities to patch this month after the company issued its patches for November this week, including two that are currently under active exploitation and six rated as critical. November’s Patch Tuesday releases fix security flaws in Microsoft products such as Azure, Azure RTOS, Azure Sphere, Microsoft Dynamics, […]
Stock trading platform Robinhood announced that certain customer support systems were hacked in early November. The unauthorized party was able to gain access using social engineering through a customer support employee by phone. The hacker was able to obtain access to a list of email addresses of about five million people, and full names of […]
A bipartisan group of four senators have introduced an amendment into a defense spending bill that, among other things, would require critical infrastructure owners and operators to report a cyberattack within three days. According to Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Susan Collins (R-ME), the amendment is based on the […]
Microsoft is ending support for the OneDrive desktop application for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 starting next year. According to a Tech Community blog, the company will no longer be pushing out updates for the desktop application for personal users of those older operating systems. Further, personal OneDrive desktop apps running on those operating systems […]
Cisco and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are urging organizations to apply updates that patch critical vulnerabilities in Cisco products. The networking company released patches for several vulnerabilities this week, including two rated critical and two rated high, impacting Cisco Policy Suite, two lines of switches and Cisco’s Email Security Appliance. The vulnerabilities […]
More than half (59%) of workers are using corporate email for personal use, but Gen Z is the biggest offender at 93%, according to identity security company SailPoint, Trust Issues survey. With work and home increasingly blurring amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sailpoint set out to determine how users behaviors when conducting these activities could put […]
It is nearly one year since we saw a nation-state attack on the SolarWinds network management system that compromised the supply chains of over 18,000 organizations, including the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security. With costs likely to run into the billions, the breach was one of the biggest incidents in recent years with […]
Cybersecurity solutions distributor Exclusive Networks, based in France, has announced a new global distribution agreement with California-based AI-driven secure network provider Juniper Networks, building on the success of an existing partnership overseas. The agreement centers around Juniper’s Mist AI technology, which the company says “drives automation, insight and assured user experience across the stack, delivering […]
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