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The FortiGuard Labs threat research team analyzed real-world threat data from around the globe to create this insightful report. It not only shares findings on the most prevalent exploits, malware, and botnets, but offers observations on threat variance by region and industry for an accurate picture of worldwide threat activity. Download full report.

Almost half (47%) of the world population is now using the Internet and more will come online as mobile networks grow and prices fall, according to a report by the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU). In developed countries, about 80% use the Internet, but the figure drops to around 40% in developing nations and less...

Today’s workforce is increasingly dispersed, with 49% of the enterprise reporting mobility as part of their work style. So it’s more important than ever for team collaboration to be reliable and intuitive in any location and across devices. Back in December we talked about how together Plantronics Voyager Focus UC headset and Unify’s OpenScape CP600...

AppDynamics is helping solve numerous challenges for companies by providing real-time visibility into the performance of applications as well as business analytics that are increasingly critical in the digitizing enterprise. No other player in the industry is delivering these insights more effectively than AppDynamics. The acquisition of AppDynamics is part of Cisco’s broader strategy to...

The proportion of enterprise IT budgets set aside for cloud and hosting services is set to rise from 28% to 34% in 2017, according to a report from 451 Research. The move away from Capex, better scalability and flexibility, along with the need to transform IT, are driving the shift. Of the spending on cloud,...

Integrated solution helps organizations gain visibility, take action and assume control over personally identifiable information under management Mountain View, CA – March 22, 2017 – Veritas Technologies, the leader in information management, today unveiled an integrated solution that will help organizations directly address the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This solution gives enterprises around...

Deal creates biggest ‘digital safety platform’ Aims to deliver comprehensive cyber defence for consumers Symantec is investing in anti-cybercrime technology by agreeing to purchase LifeLock, an identity-theft-protection company. The deal is worth about $2.3 billion and will create the world’s largest ‘digital safety platform’. Lifelock provides identity theft protection for consumers as well as credit...

Over the last 3 months, the CIO WaterCooler invited CIOs from a mixture of industries, size of companies and regions to share how they and their organisations were approaching the issue of data governance, their drivers and benefit they hope to achieve in building a data governance framework. The results of their findings can be...

A CBI survey has found that 70% of businesses plan to increase or maintain their innovation spending to ensure the UK’s industry continues to thrive after Brexit.  Top priorities include greater access to technical skills (68%) and increasing collaboration and partnership (65%). Carolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the CBI, said: ‘Innovation is the nucleus of future...

IBM is to build four new data centres in the UK to meet demand from corporate and public sector clients, who it says are rapidly adopting cloud services. The investment will see IBM increase from two data centres to six. The firm’s decision follows the likes of Facebook and Google who have decided that the advantages...

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye. CHECK IT OUT: Red Hat Blog – Red Hat receives overall “Positive” company rating in Gartner’s 2017...

Attacks targeting and originating from IoT devices began grabbing news headlines toward the last quarter of 2016. Insecure IoT devices became the low-hanging fruit for threat actors to easily exploit. Some were even notoriously used as botnets to launch DDoS attacks against selected targets. For example, the infamous Mirai botnet exploited weak login vulnerabilities in...