ManageEngine recently announced the results of its global Active Directory and Windows Server Security -- Trends and Practices Survey for 2016, which found that 70 percent of IT administrators across the globe agree that their Windows environments are not immune to malicious attacks.

To delve a bit deeper, we spoke to Derek Melber, a technical evangelist for ManageEngine.

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HP believes that the printer market still has lots of potential, as it just announced that it is buying Samsung's Printing Business Unit. The tech company says that its new acquisition will enable it to "disrupt and reinvent" the copier industry, a market evaluated at $55 billion that "hasn't innovated in decades".

HP will pay $1.05 billion for the South Korean giant's printer business, with the acquisition expected to complete within a year. After the deal is finalized, Samsung will make an investment in HP, said to be between $100 million and $300 million.

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A new version of the RAA ransomware was found recently by security researchers at Kaspersky Lab. This one, written completely in Jscript, seems to be targeting business users exclusively, the researchers claim.

It comes as they all do: through an email with the malicious attachment. This one, however, comes in a password-protected zip file. This method does two things:

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Google has announced that it will acquire the cloud software company Apigee Corp in a move that will likely help boost its own cloud offerings.

The deal is valued at around $625 million and Google has agreed to pay Apigee shareholders $17.40 for each share of the company's stock which amounts to a 6.5 percent premium on its closing price the day before the announcement.

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Intel has made the decision to sell off a majority stake in its security software arm, which was previously known as McAfee, to the private equity firm TPG.

In 2010, the chip maker acquired the security software company for $7.6 billion and then four years later it decided to do away with the McAfee name entirely in favor of Intel Security. TPG, which will own 51 percent of the company after the sale, will be reverting the company name back to McAfee, likely due to the security software being a household name and having a large user base.

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News of software vulnerabilities often centers on products from well-known companies that potentially put large numbers of end users at risk.

But a new report from software solutions company Flexera Software reveals that the niche products used by specialist industries can be just as much of a problem.

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During BoxWorks 2016, the annual Box conference taking place in San Francisco, the enterprise content platform announced it is teaming up with Google to make working and collaborating in the cloud simpler and easier.

Box will become third-party content repository for Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides, it was unveiled during the conference. Once the new offering is available, it will enable Box users to create and edit Google documents directly from its cloud services.

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Thanks to a new partnership between Box and IBM, Box users will be getting a new workflow solution which will allow any business users to build, manage and track custom and pre-built workflows.

The new solution, called Box Relay, will be a part of the "all new Box", to be presented during BoxWorks 2016, Box's annual San Francisco conference.

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In order to boost the features of its supply chain management cloud offering, Oracle will be acquiring the Atlanta-based LogFire that provides cloud-based warehouse management applications.

Oracle believes that LogFire's applications will really help complement the logistics functionality of its own Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM), through the addition of the ability to manage warehouses. The financial terms of the company's proposed acquisition have yet to be disclosed, but both LogFire's employees and management will be joining the Oracle SCM Cloud Team.

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The latest report on enterprise cloud usage and trends from cloud security specialist Netskope reveals that 55.9 percent of malware-infected files found in cloud apps are shared publicly.

It also finds that ransomware is now one of the most common threats, with 43.7 percent of malware infections found in enterprise cloud apps having delivered ransomware. These include Javascript exploits and droppers, Microsoft Office macros and PDF exploits.

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One of the biggest problems companies have in keeping their system secure is a lack of integration and coordination between security and operations. This can lead to security blind spots and processes that are isolated from protection solutions.

IT solutions provider BMC is announcing extensions to its BladeLogic Threat Director product that allow for the rapid identification of unsecured assets, and provide visibility into application dependencies. This means operations teams will be better able to anticipate the impact of actions on end users.

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While companies are often keen to have their own custom built applications, the process of coming up with a proof of concept and selecting a developer can be complex and time consuming.

Israel-based prooV wants to make the process easier with the world's first Pilot-as-a-Service platform that seamlessly connects enterprises to independent software vendors.

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Despite the pressure modern organizations face to embrace new technologies and adopt digital processes, only four percent of business leaders completely understand their company's digital business strategy.

That's one of the main findings from a new Forrester report looking at "business and technology leadership in a post-digital era", commissioned by Huawei and launched last week at Huawei Connect 2016 in Shanghai.

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Migrating to the cloud can be a complex and time consuming process. In order to help things go more smoothly, services automation provider BitTitan has formed an alliance with Dropbox to simplify and accelerate the process of data migration into Dropbox Business.

The link up provides BitTitan partners to create new services revenue around another leading cloud product. In turn, Dropbox resellers have free access to all of the tools and resources in BitTitan MSPComplete, a comprehensive cloud services enabling platform, including its sales automation capabilities.

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Organizations have an increasing number of employees who travel. According to a 2015 report by Strategy Analytics, the global mobile workforce is expected to grow to more than 1.75 billion by 2020, accounting for almost half of employees. For organizations of all sizes, mobile workers make communicating in an emergency increasingly difficult.

In the event of an emergency effective communication is crucial. The safety of employees is of importance to organizations. When a location-based crisis occurs (such as a fire, explosion, natural disaster or terrorist attack) organisations need to have the tools in place to communicate with employees quickly and reliably. For example, if there were riots taking place in the same area an employee was traveling, it is important for an organization to be able to notify that person and make them aware of the danger, as well as provide the necessary actions to guide them to safety.

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