The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a rapid shift to home and hybrid working, a change which looks as though it could be here to stay according to new research from video conferencing specialist Poly.

The survey of over 7,000 hybrid workers across seven countries shows that 82 percent of respondents intend to spend at least one day a week working from home in the future, with 54 percent planning to split their time evenly between office and home.

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High volumes of threats and shortages of skilled staff can lead to security teams becoming overwhelmed and this has led many companies to turn to professional and managed services.

Network detection and response (NDR) specialist ExtraHop is launching an expansion of its expanded Reveal(x) Advisor service that provides threat detection and hunting capabilities alongside network assurance analysis.

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Ransomware continues to be a major issue, with the FBI recently reporting a 62 percent year-on-year increase for the period ending July 31.

Unpatched vulnerabilities, device misconfigurations, internet-facing assets and unauthorized software rank consistently among the top attack vectors, but how can businesses track them down?

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As the quantity of unstructured data generated globally continues to grow exponentially, the storage needed to cope with it needs to grow too and that adds to cost.

What's more much of this data will be 'cold' -- inactive data that must be stored, protected, and kept accessible for years or decades because of compliance requirements or the value it contains.

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The latest research by IT Asset Management software company, Lansweeper, has revealed that 55 percent of workstations are not capable of being upgraded to Windows 11.

This will be an issue for enterprise IT teams looking at strategies to install the new operating system which begins its rollout from today.

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Millennials and members of Generation Z suffer more from cyberthreats than baby boomers do, according to a new report from the National Cyber Security Alliance and data analytics company CybSafe.

Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the report, based on polling of 2,000 people across the US and UK, shows that 44 percent of millennials and 51 percent of Gen Zers have experienced a cyber threat while only 21 percent of baby boomers have.

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The death of the password has been predicted for a long time, but although it's been augmented by things like multi-factor authentication and biometrics, it still clings to life.

However, businesses are looking for ways to eliminate fraud without impacting the customer experience. One way to do this is to use location technology to provide ‘zero factor’ authentication, allowing businesses to protect themselves and their customers without disrupting the customer experience.

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Active Directory, the directory-based identity services platform, is used by 90 percent of enterprises worldwide making it an attractive target for hackers.

New research part sponsored by Attivo Networks and conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) shows half of organizations experienced an attack on Active Directory in the last two years, with over 40 percent saying the attack was successful.

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Google is announcing its sponsorship of the Secure Open Source (SOS) pilot program, run by the Linux Foundation, which financially rewards developers for enhancing the security of critical open source projects.

Google is starting with a $1 million investment and plans to expand the scope of the program based on community feedback.

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There have been rapid increases in storage capacity in recent years, but the way the technology is used is largely unchanged. We still load data from storage into memory, process it, and write out any changes.

But as storage grows into petabytes this model will become harder to sustain. The future of storage will require abstraction layering and heterogeneous computing, allowing for scale, but reducing over-sophistication.

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Within the next two years one in five workers will be remote and more than half will be in hybrid environment according to a new report.

However, digital employee experience (DEX) specialist 1E and Forrester Consulting have released data that shows only 34 percent of organizations can currently support their future hybrid and remote work needs.

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Activity on dark web marketplaces that trade access to compromised networks has increased dramatically in the last year with sales up 50 percent, according to a new report by the threat research team at Lumu Technologies.

Criminal gangs are diversifying their monetization vehicles to extract maximum value from their efforts. Where in the past they would have been selling credit card and bank details, now access to mail servers, networks and more is on offer. Access to remote desktop protocols is particularly attractive.

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As volumes of data grow the resources needed to handle the associated computing and storage requirements are coming under increasing scrutiny, particularly in regard to their energy usage.

But maybe there's another way of doing things. Boston-based CATALOG is a leader in DNA-based digital data storage and has just secured $35 million in funding to progress the development of a computing platform where both data management and computation occur through the manipulation of synthetic DNA.

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Security experts have spent years driving home the message that HTTPS connections are safer, but a new report released today reveals that 91.5 percent of malware arrived over encrypted connections in the second quarter of this year.

The quarterly internet security report from WatchGuard Technologies also shows alarming surges across fileless malware threats, dramatic growth in ransomware and a big increase in network attacks.

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Today's fast evolving business world means modern enterprises have little margin for error when considering the overall reliability and user experience of their applications and digital experiences.

Sumo Logic is using its annual Illuminate user conference to announce an expansion in the breadth and depth of its observability solution with new real-time data sources and integrations to provide deeper insights and value.

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