Nathan Eddy

While 80 percent of organizations experienced a security incident in 2015, 71 percent of IT professionals expect their organizations to be more secure in 2016, according to a Spiceworks survey of 197 IT professionals. When asked how they plan to invest in more advanced solutions, 36 percent of IT pros expect to increase their investment […]

Businesses appear to me moving toward a stronger focus on insider threats and more understanding of cyber-security issues at the board level, according to a Nuix survey of 30 IT security officials. The report found that there’s a greater focus on insider threats since the first report was conducted in 2014, with nearly three-quarters (71 […]

Enterprise security and authentication specialist Centrify announced that its Identity Service offering now supports secure collaboration through federation for business partners and single sign-on (SSO) for end customers. Partner identity management is now delivered through identity federation support with other leading identity providers, making it easier for organizations to share identity information. To further enable […]

Organizations will spend more than $37 billion on IT security in 2016, according to findings in IT analyst firm Ovum’s Security 2016 Trends to Watch report. Improving the usefulness of security analytics and threat intelligence is vital, the report noted, adding that keeping business data safe calls for new and innovative technology and that cyber-security […]

Taqua, a supplier of IP communications systems, applications and services to mobile and fixed operators, announced a partnership with Sonus, a specialist in secure and intelligent cloud communications, to bring a fully virtualized, standard mobile core network solution to market. The service provides mobile operators with a path to commercial rollout of WiFi Calling services, […]

In 2016, millions of American consumers will have their first video consults, be prescribed their first health apps and use their smartphones as diagnostic tools for the first time, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) annual Top Health Issues report. PwC’s analysis of the top issues in health care for the year as well as predictions for […]

Communication between marketing and sales departments within business to business (B2B) organizations remains challenged, according to a ToutApp survey of more than 300 B2B marketers across the U.S. Among all marketers surveyed, 70 percent said that they want to meet with their sales teams more frequently to review and discuss strategy. When asked to describe […]

While email is still customers’ preferred channel when it comes to communication from brands, marketers are seeing a decline in click-through rates as people lose patience with unsophisticated, irrelevant or overly frequent correspondence. This is one of the findings from a recent survey of nearly 300 email marketers conducted by VB Insight. The report notes […]

OpenMarket announced a suite of solutions to support the mobile messaging needs across IT, telecommunications, and the consumer electronics industries. OpenMarket’s Enterprise-to-Person (E2P) SMS SaaS-based products are aimed at providing businesses with a suite of mobile messaging solutions that support a variety of use cases. Enterprises can access the platform through a Web-based graphical user […]

Enterprises have multiple commercial tools in place for application performance management (APM), but a new survey found a third of business end users — not APM software —are providing the initial alerts that inform IT teams about application performance problems. This was one of the findings of a survey of 105 application engineers, application support […]

RingCentral announced its first Apple Watch App for iOS, which enables workers to respond to incoming calls and messages while away from their desks. The app will be available for download on iOS 9.1 for all current RingCentral customers. Upon receiving a call, users can opt to send a canned text message, use the hands-off […]

More than half of consumers are comfortable with purchasing all of their technology from a single brand ecosystem, and 42 percent even believe a single supplier will manage their entire home by the year 2025, according to a Xerox survey. The study, which surveyed 6,000 consumers in the United States (2,000), the U.K. (1,000), Germany […]