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Microsoft Adds Identity Theft Monitoring to Defender for Individuals
Microsoft's new identity theft monitoring solution in Defender leverages Experian's identity monitoring technology.
In an attempt to help secure the identity of personal uses, Microsoft is releasing a new identity theft monitoring capability in Defender for Individuals to personal and family subscribers of Microsoft 365. According to Microsoft, the identity theft monitoring solution is a partnership with Experian that leverages the credit agency’s identity monitoring technology to detect, […]
BenQ Smart Board Displays Empower Educators and Students
BenQ's Smart Board displays feature intuitive tools to enhance learning comprehension, engagement and collaboration for in-person, virtual and hybrid classrooms.
BenQ, the Costa Mesa, Calif., provider of visual display solutions, is empowering K-12 and higher-ed educators and students with its new educational BenQ Board smart displays. Comprising the Premium RP Series, Mainstream RM Series, and Entry-Level RE Series, the interactive displays feature intuitive tools to enhance learning comprehension, engagement and collaboration for in-person, virtual and […]
Aryaka Announces Zero Trust WAN Based on Unified SASE Architecture
Aryaka is building onto its zero trust WAN offerings with integrations of Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service.
Networking company Aryaka is building onto its zero trust WAN offerings with the inclusion of Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service, an integration the company says is the first that allows enterprises to easily enforce security policies across offices and remote users with unified control, performance and stability. According to San Mateo, Calif.-based Aryaka, the company’s […]
How to Effectively Collaborate in a Hybrid Work Environment
Collaboration benefits business and employees; here's what you can do to foster better workplace collaboration among your team.
While day-to-day life is much closer to what it was pre-pandemic, there’s been a seismic shift in how American knowledge workers do their jobs. Fifty-eight percent of Americans work from home at least once a week. It’s even more pronounced among tech workers, where 85% are fully remote or hybrid. In-person collaboration is no longer […]
This New Logitech Camera is Designed to Make Hybrid Meetings Better
The Logitech Sight is a new tabletop camera that leverages artificial intelligence and multiple cameras to make hybrid meetings more equitable.
In a bid to help make hybrid meetings more equitable for remote participants, Logitech is releasing the Logitech Sight, a new AI-powered tabletop camera that works in conjunction with the Rally Bar or Rally Bar Mini to capture each in-room meeting participant and track conversations as they move around the conference room. The company says […]
Microsoft Releases Linux Desktop Management in Intune
Linux desktop management in Microsoft Intune, part of Endpoint Manager, brings support for registration, management and secure web access to Microsoft 365 and Azure resources for Linux Ubuntu LTS.
Microsoft is introducing the general availability of Linux desktop management in Microsoft Intune, as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, to bring support for device registration, endpoint management and secure web access to Microsoft 365 and Azure resources for Linux Ubuntu LTS. The new capabilities come with the October release of Intune, which will allow organizations […]
Exchange Online Password Spray Attacks Up As Basic Auth Phase Out Begins
Microsoft revives urging Exchange Online customers to disable basic auth on their own before the end of the year.
Microsoft says it is seeing indicators that Exchange Online customers are being targeted by password spray attacks leveraging basic authentication as the company begins to phase out basic auth in Exchange. The company has for three years been urging customers to move away from basic auth, and Microsoft has disabled it in “millions of tenants […]
Board Members, CISOs Aren’t on the Same Page
New Proofpoint research into the cybersecurity opinions of board members finds that boards are not seeing eye-to-eye with their CISOs.
Despite a global refocusing on cybersecurity priorities over the last few years, nearly half of board members at organizations across the globe feel unprepared to respond to a targeted cyberattack, and nearly two-thirds say they are at risk within the next 12 months, data which suggests a disconnect between boards of directors and CISOs. That […]
State and Local Governments Struggle to Recover From Ransomware
The cost for government organizations to remediate an attack was three times the average ransom the sector paid, according to Sophos.
While state and local governments see fewer ransomware attacks than other industry sectors, government organizations are more likely to have their data encrypted and are significantly less able to stop ransomware attacks before that step, according to cybersecurity company Sophos. The U.K.-based cybersecurity firm says 72% of state and local government organizations had their data […]
