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The internet has turned into the data highway that fuels the digital economy. But, more and more, people and organizations are becoming more wary of a technology that was once heralded as the new face of capitalism and global knowledge-sharing. Howe… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: Protecting the digital economy
We’ve all heard news reports about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that hobble IT infrastructure and take an entire business offline, or data breaches that expose vast amounts of sensitive customer information to invisible cyber-crimina… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: Is a shortage of C-suite support getting in the way of corporate cyber-resilience?
Cybercrime is on the rise, the consequences of it take longer to fix, and more companies are losing more money because of it, according to the Ninth Annual Cost of Cybercrime Study recently published by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute. The 2019 … Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: Cybercrime is increasing and more costly for organizations
Organizations everywhere are moving forward with digital transformation plans and projects. Consequently, almost all of them (94 percent) are now “cloudified” – in other words, they all use the cloud in one way or another, a phenomenon described in … Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: CIO trends 2019: Multi-cloud is becoming the norm
Across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) digital business is at a crossroads: according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Agenda Survey, 35 percent of CIOs surveyed in EMEA are ready to roll their digital initiatives on a broader scale. That’s 20 percen… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: EMEA CIOs most likely to scale digital initiatives in 2019
Today’s digital landscape is inconceivably broad and deep. It’s a convergent environment in which every desktop, laptop, smart phone and IoT device owned or used by organizations is simply another node in a global network. And it’s never been harder… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: By 2020, 60 percent of digital businesses will suffer major service interruptions
Companies in all sectors, everywhere, are continuing to experience cyber-breaches. This is no surprise: as more and more organization embrace digitization, they inevitably become prey to new cyber-dangers and, in turn, need to put much greater empha… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: Escaping the line of fire: 2018 U.S. State of Cybercrime
Today’s businesses depend on constant, intimate digital relationships with suppliers, partners, and customers to remain top of mind and competitive. Intelligent technologies and big data often play a critical role across business operations—from C-s… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: Lack of C-suite collaboration hampering cybersecurity, report finds
In step with the trend toward digital transformation, the global public cloud services market is projected to grow by 21.4 percent in 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion in 2017, according to research by Gartner.Infrastructure-as-a-… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: Mastering multi-cloud scenarios
In 2018, cloud computing went mainstream. Virtually all organizations (96 percent) use it in one way or another. However, studies show that as users gain cloud maturity, they tend to move from hybrid cloud scenarios – which comprise both private and… Continue reading IDG Contributor Network: IT governance critical as cloud adoption soars to 96 percent in 2018