Nathan Eddy

Insurance agencies of all sizes are less optimistic about future growth based on year-over-year results, with the biggest drop in sentiment coming from large agencies where only 33 percent claim to be very optimistic, compared to 70 percent in 2014. This was one of the findings of Vertafore’s second annual survey of 200 principals or […]

Three-quarters of mobile network operators lack visibility into two-thirds of application- to- person (A2P) messaging traffic due to illegal grey route traffic terminating its network, according to a survey of 25 mobile operators conducted by Tyntec and MobileSquared. The main driver for mobile operators considering SMS firewall deployment is network security, anti-spam and fraud prevention, […]

More than 60 percent of Americans are confident the U.S. is a global technology leader, and 79.1 percent feel this leadership will continue for the next five years, boding well as the U.S. enters an election year, according to a Modis survey of 1,010 Americans over the age of 18. Among respondents who disagreed that […]

Employees rely overwhelmingly on desktop computers and smartphones for work (78 percent each), followed closely by laptops (73.5 percent), according to a CompTIA study of 1,200 full-time employees in the United States. However, the report also found newer technology is quickly making headway, with 54 percent of employees reporting regular tablet use and 20 percent […]

More than 90 percent of health care professionals believe criminals are increasingly targeting health care organizations, according to a survey of 398 full-time health care professionals by Trustwave, a security-as-a-service vendor. Despite these concerns, the report found only 10 percent or less of their IT budget goes toward cyber-security and protecting their patients’ highly sensitive […]

Workers are turning to part-time work, not because they are unable to find full-time positions, but rather because they are eager to take advantage of the perks of the gig economy, according to a Gigwalk survey of more than 1,000 people across the United States who identify as freelancers or on-demand workers. A strong majority […]

Veeam Software announced its Availability Suite v9 would include a storage capability called Unlimited Scale-out Backup Repository that is designed to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of backup storage. Enterprises can now increase capacity infinitely by adding almost any backup device, and there is no need to manage each device individually, though IT […]

Cyber-attacks over the next five years will cost U.S. health systems $305 billion in cumulative lifetime revenue, according to a report from Accenture. The consulting company estimates that one in 13 patients—roughly 25 million people—will have personal information, such as social security or financial records, stolen from technology systems over the next five years. “To […]

Fortinet announced details of its Secure Access Architecture, a framework that expands the security vendor’s Internal Segmentation cyber-security strategy and helps organizations segment devices and the access layers across wired and wireless networks. The architecture provides a platform of integrated cyber-security solutions that span from the client to the cloud and across everything in between. […]

More than half of IT pros that indicated security issues were their top concern specified breaches, malware, vulnerabilities and zero day attacks as their biggest challenge, according to a survey by Ipswitch. The 2,685 IT professionals polled indicated that the top challenges for IT teams in the year ahead include security (25 percent), network and […]

Good Technology announced the launch of a secure solution for Web apps for Windows and has expanded its enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution to Windows. Good Access for Windows provides a secure environment for deployment of HTML5 apps, securing corporate Web apps in containers to ensure that data never leaves enterprise control. It also provides […]

Cyber related concerns grew by more than 20 percentage points from last year, moving from fifth to third place on the list of overall concerns tracked by The Travelers Companies’ third annual Consumer Risk Index. The survey of 1,029 adults found that one in four Americans say they have been the victim of a data […]