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Recently The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Cyber Chiefs Watch Their People for Burnout as Pandemic Rolls On, which posited that IT security teams are burning out even more quickly than before the COVID-19 pandemic. With IT security teams supporting a vastly new remote workforce—and an even wider attack surface—that increases sophisticated cyberattack attempts by adversaries, […]

By Otavio Freire During the pandemic, employees have been targeted by bad actors like never before. To properly protect their employees, companies need to implement security tools that offer visibility and monitoring. However, employees will resist or avoid any oversight that feels like a breach of privacy. How can enterprises strike the balance of protecting […]

Seven out of ten executives whose companies had made investments in artificial intelligence reported minimal or no impact from them, according to a 2019 research report from MIT. This isn’t because the technology isn’t there; machine learning is being applied successfully in a multitude of contexts all over the world. Two of the main factors contributing […]

Some special days on the calendar are whimsical, some are over-commercialized. International Data Privacy Day, recognized each year on Jan. 28, is neither. It highlights a massive and unwieldy problem requiring immediate global attention from individuals, businesses, governments and organizations of every kind: exponential data growth in our data-filled work, lives and world means unprecedented […]

We will remember 2020 as the year of change. No business, industry, region or nation was immune to last year’s adversity, and business owners especially had to respond to new pandemic-caused challenges relating to employee safety and customer confidence. Though we’re close to a full year into the pandemic, we do see an eventual conclusion, […]

All of us hope the new vaccines we have read about in the news will rid the world of the COVID-19 curse. It will be a welcome relief. Nevertheless, many of the changes caused by the virus in the ways we work and live are not going away. From widespread adoption of remote work practices, […]

It’s no surprise that artificial intelligence is a key ingredient in the modern tech space. From machine learning to wearables to robotics, the AI across industries is a growing necessity for businesses looking to remain competitive in the long term. Yet there are a few common reasons why businesses often fall short in their AI […]

Due to a number of different circumstances that have come together in the last half-dozen years to form an important convergence, artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming more portable for use at the edge, in addition to their usual homes in the data center or in the cloud. It’s all here now: high-speed bandwidth, […]

RingCentral intends to earn some of the market share that competitors such as Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams and others have been claiming during this pandemic year 2020. The Belmont, Calif.-based communications provider on Dec. 15 launched a new service called RingCentral Glip. This is a free, unlimited, easy-to-use package that offers high-quality and high-availability video […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because […]

Being digitally adaptive is high on the agenda for any company where customer expectations evolve quickly. Hint: That’s just about every company today.  2020 has been a year of monumental change, much of it unforeseen and marked by the need for businesses to rapidly respond in order to stay afloat. Despite their best efforts, software suites […]