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This Week in IT: Sneaky Ransomware; Google, Army Partnership; Digital Transformation; Chinese Hackers

BlackByte's tactics, Google's Army Workspace deal, automation, digital transformation and China's favorite bugs highlight this week's IT news.

October 6, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: There is a lot going on in the world of IT, from emerging technologies to digital transformation and new cybersecurity threats. However, we can’t possibly cover it all, so we’ll bring you This Week in IT, a curated summary of IT and enterprise technology stories each week. BlackByte ransomware group disables security products […]

IT Leaders Are Prioritizing Security, Application Integrations, Cloud

The accelerated rate of change in security, infrastructure, applications and cloud is complicating the selection of new tools, Gartner says.

September 26, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Midsize enterprises are heavily focusing on security and risk management, application and integration strategies and IT infrastructure and operations, according to tech research and consulting firm Gartner. The Stamford, Conn. firm says the results of a survey of CIOs and IT leaders at medium-sized enterprises shows that organizations are undertaking projects to overhaul their security […]

Netskope Updates SASE Platform with Advanced Cloud Firewall Capabilities

Netskope Cloud Firewall helps customers simplify operations, prevent threats and provide consistent firewall coverage worldwide—anywhere users are located.

September 13, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Netskope, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, announced enhancements to its Netskope Cloud Firewall, the firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) component of its converged SASE platform. The new security capabilities for Netskope Cloud Firewall help customers simplify operations, prevent threats and provide consistent firewall coverage worldwide—anywhere users are located. As businesses are […]

Organizations are Looking to Consolidate Their IT Security Vendors

Gartner says 75% of organizations are looking to improve their security posture by consolidating security vendors and focusing on SASE, XDR.

September 13, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

With the cybersecurity industry expanding rapidly over the last few years, organizations are finding themselves using several security tools from different vendors, but they are now looking to consolidate those tools to improve risk posture and reduce spending, according to new research from Gartner. The Stamford, Conn.-based research and consulting firm’s survey found that three-quarters […]

How IT Asset Management Can Improve Turnover Time

IT asset managers can reduce software license and maintenance costs, remove waste, and increase efficiency.

September 9, 2022 Carla Woodworth  Leave a Comment

An IT asset is anything a firm appreciates, from software and hardware to information. An IT asset management (ITAM) records, manages, improves, and disposes of these assets. It ensures that your company’s physical and intangible assets are monitored and maximized.   Perhaps, from all its benefits, ITAM’s main advantage is minimizing turnover time or the period […]

AI Contact Center Agent Spending Will Reach $2 Billion This Year

Gartner say conversational artificial intelligence will reduce contact center agent labor costs by $80 billion in 2026.

August 31, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Technology researchers from Gartner say conversational artificial intelligence will reduce contact center agent labor costs by $80 billion in 2026, with AI end-user spending to reach nearly $2 billion this year. There are currently about 17 million contact center agents worldwide today, but organizations are facing agent staff shortages and declining economic environments that are […]

Building a Foundation for Zero Trust with Cybersecurity Mesh

A cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) goes beyond ZTA and suggests a deeper, better integrated layer of security.

August 31, 2022 Wes Wright Leave a Comment

It seems like there are more acronyms, labels and methods for bolstering security than ever before – and making sense of them all is proving to be just as complex as the infrastructure they’re meant to secure. One widely embraced term, zero-trust architecture (ZTA), calls for continually vetting users as they access different applications and […]

How Can IT Companies Manage Their Spend With Digital Procurement

Digital procurement systems can help IT companies with software subscriptions, office supplies, professional services and other spend categories.

August 25, 2022 Prasanna Rajendran Leave a Comment

The IT industry worldwide is expected to grow the highest, with predictions expecting a 104 percent increase between 2018 and 2023, as compared to other sectors. Information technology is rapidly becoming an integral part of every consumer’s life. Different types of IT companies are emerging to fulfill the demand of businesses and their other customers. […]

What IT Leaders Need to Do Now to Prepare for the Looming Legal Challenges of Microsoft Teams

With online collaboration tools central to our working lives, here’s a few steps to prepare for the inevitable legal obligations of tomorrow.

August 23, 2022 David Carns Leave a Comment

To fully appreciate just how much the way we work has changed over the past few years, consider this stat from Gartner’s Digital Worker Experience Survey that was conducted 18 months after the pandemic first started: Nearly 80% of workers reported using collaboration tools for work in 2021, up from just over half of workers […]

Prosimo Announces General Availability of AWS Cloud WAN Integration

July 12, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

News Summary: Prosimo announces GA of integration with AWS Cloud WAN Integration enable enterprises to build an elastic and scalable transit for cross-region connectivity and segmentation with autonomous multi-cloud networking solution SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AWS—Prosimo, the Application Experience Infrastructure company, today announced the general availability of its integration with AWS Cloud WAN. This comes on […]