Nathan Eddy

Security policy management specialist AlgoSec announced that its Security Management solution now supports Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, enabling unified policy management across hybrid environments. The Security Management solution manages complex network security policies throughout their lifecycle— from discovering application connectivity requirements, through ongoing change management and proactive risk analysis, to secure decommissioning. “AlgoSec is focused […]

Security specialist Barracuda announced an anti-phishing and advanced threat detection enhancements for protection against targeted email attacks in on-premises and cloud-based environments. The enhancements are available in all editions of Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 and Barracuda Email Security Service. They protect against targeted attacks spread through email attachments, as well as link protection to […]

Poor password hygiene and negligence continue to plague the enterprise, with the majority of business users (65 percent) admitting to using a single password among applications, according to a SailPoint survey. The survey was conducted by Vanson Bourne, an independent research firm, which interviewed 1,000 office workers at private organizations with at least 1,000 employees […]

Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of consumers with advanced technical skills do not feel confident in their ability to keep their connected devices secure, according to a BullGuard survey of more than 1,000 American consumers. The study found that 58 percent of consumers are very concerned or highly concerned about potential hacking and data theft […]

Cloud service commerce specialist AppDirect announced the acquisition of Xendo, a provider of hosted enterprise search. Xendo, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014, offers cloud-based unified search across 30 different cloud and on-premises apps to allow business users to find content across the various cloud services they use every day. The service integrates with […]

Although 85 percent of employees use video as part of their everyday lives, only 28 percent say their employers are proactively encouraging them to use video at work to communicate, according to a BlueJeans survey of 4,000 employees across the United States, UK, Germany and France. The majority (72 percent) believe live video has the […]

Network defenses tops the list of technologies the U.S. government plans to increase its spending on in the next 12 months, following by analysis and correlation tools, according to security vendor Vormetric’s 2016 Federal Data Threat Report. According to the report, 53 percent of government agencies plan to spend the most on network defenses, while […]

FusionOps has extended its Supply Chain Intelligence Cloud platform to include predefined prescriptive analytics, giving users access to data science-backed recommendations to optimize their inventory for reduced operational costs and improved customer service levels. FusionOps’ prebuilt prescriptive analytics are integrated into its scalable cloud platform, leveraging a compute infrastructure, which can lead to accelerated time-to-insights. […]

While the majority of IT professionals feel customer data privacy concerns are a critical issue at the C-level, only 9 percent of IT pros taking part in a recent ForgeRock survey believe current privacy and consent methods are adequate. The survey, conducted by TechValidate, asked more than 300 IT pros in the United States and […]

A majority of health care professionals say telemedicine is now a high priority for their organizations, and is already providing a measurable return on investment (ROI), according to an Aeris survey of more than 150 health care professionals. A majority of respondents also believe telemedicine can deliver similar outcomes to in-person doctor visits and said […]