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How COVID-19 is Changing the Cybersecurity and IT Workforce

The COVID-19 is changing how organizations should recruit, hire and train IT and cybersecurity professionals to help the overburdened workforce.

May 19, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If you’re an IT or cybersecurity professional, you’ve been very busy over these last few months dealing with a gigantic jump in remote work and the increasing security challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Almost overnight, IT and security staff had to figure out how to help the entire office work from home and […]

HID Emergency Badging Helps Rapidly Deploy New Employee Credentials

May 19, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

HID Global introduces emergency badging to manage secure administration of badges to new and temporary healthcare facilities during the coronavirus pandemic. In an announcement, HID says the solution helps organizations that face an urgent need to rapidly onboard hundreds of key employees, such as medical, nursing and other staff members, on a daily basis across […]

IBM Study: 54% Want Permanent Remote Work

According to an IBM survey on how COVID-19 has changed behavior, 54% of U.S. adults want remote work to be their primary way of working.

May 19, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Parts of the U.S. are beginning to ease restrictions on social distancing as there are signs that the coronavirus is slowing, but that doesn’t mean things will ever go back to the way they were. Time will tell what the world looks like, but we are certain of one thing: remote work is here to […]

Red Hat, AWS Announce Amazon Red Hat OpenShift

AWS and Red Hat are expanding their relationship with the release of Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, a jointly-managed enterprise Kubernetes service on AWS.

May 18, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services and Red Hat are expanding their working relationship with the release of Amazon Red Hat OpenShift. The new jointly-managed and supported enterprise Kubernetes service on AWS — set to launch later this year — will provide a self-service experience for cluster creation and operations, deeper integrations with AWS services, on-demand billing, a […]

Hands-Free Door Opening Solution from ASSA ABLOY

Hands-free door opening solution helps reduce skin-to-surface touching, according to access control manufacturer ASSA ABLOY.

May 18, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

ASSA ABLOY introduces hands-free door opening solutions that reduce skin-to-surface touchpoints. Rockwood Hands-Free Arm and Foot Pulls are easy-to-install, cost-effective options for hands-free door operation in new or pre-existing openings in places like entrances, corridors and restrooms, according to the company. They are made of stainless steel and can be installed on wood, metal or […]

Wilson Bank & Trust PoE Surveillance System Saves Money

May 18, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Wilson Bank & Trust, a Tennessee-based independent, community-based bank, has upgraded the security infrastructure at forty of its locations. The Tech Decision “The bank had cameras from multiple manufacturers on multiple systems. Most of them were already 8-10 years old when we began the process. This meant that the image quality was low and we […]

Four Steps to Avoid WFH Burnout

If you and your staff are feeling burnt out from the coronavirus and working from home, there are simple things you can do to stay sharp.

May 15, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The team at My TechDecisions, Commercial Integrator, CE Pro, Security Sales & Integration, Campus Safety and our other sister brands have been working from home now for two months. To say that I’m sick of working where I like to relax and unwind is an understatement, especially since I don’t really have a dedicated office […]

Facebook Rolls Out Videoconferencing Service Messenger Rooms

Facebook has started rolling out Messenger Rooms, its consumer-based answer to Zoom, Google Meet, WebEx, GoToMeeting and Microsoft Teams.

May 15, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Facebook has started rolling out Messenger Rooms, its consumer-based answer to Zoom, Meet, WebEx, GoToMeeting and Teams. The free service lets users create a room to host joinable video calls with up to 50 people and no time limit, which rivals some competitors and their free versions of videoconferencing and unified communications platforms. Read Next: […]

Virtual Commencement Disrupted by Racist Zoombombs

The Oklahoma City University’s virtual commencement was interrupted by racist zoombombs, or hacks on the event's platform.

May 14, 2020 Robin Hattersley-Gray Leave a Comment

Oklahoma City University held a virtual commencement recently that was hijacked by “Zoombombs” that let hackers disrupt the event with racial slurs and a swastika. The online event was intended to give the school’s approximately 650 graduates some semblance of the pomp and circumstance they missed because the in-person commencement ceremony was cancelled due to […]

NewsGuard, Now Free on Microsoft Edge, Can Help You Make Informed Decisions

News credibility rating service NewsGuard is now free for Microsoft Edge users as tech industry fights misinformation on COVID-19.

May 14, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Let’s face it: news and information in the age of the coronavirus is coming quickly. Every day, there are more numbers, stats, data, allegations and controversies centering around the pandemic from countless sources. In these times, business leaders should rely only on qualified and trusted sources to help them make informed decisions about the future […]