Surveilling your employees? You could be putting your company at risk of attack

Are you watching your employees? Though the question may incite thoughts of “Big Brother” and an all-seeing or all-knowing entity, it isn’t quite as ominous as you might think. Employee productivity surveillance technology, or EPST, often tracks … Continue reading Surveilling your employees? You could be putting your company at risk of attack

DEX management maturity key to succeed in the future remote work

1E revealed the DEX maturity model, created by Forrester Consulting. The maturity model looks at the state of remote and hybrid work and provides a path for organizations to reach higher levels of maturity for increased employee retention and satisfact… Continue reading DEX management maturity key to succeed in the future remote work

Massive IT-employee disconnect hindering remote productivity

There’s a glaring disconnect between IT and employees that will hold organizations back from evolving with the market and embracing a long-term digital workplace that is successful, 1E reveals. IT out of touch It is clear that the physical separa… Continue reading Massive IT-employee disconnect hindering remote productivity

IT teams failing to deliver a positive remote employee experience

Conducted during the coronavirus pandemic, 1E unveils the findings of an analysis of the remote employee experience and the digital workplace in 2020. Vanson Bourne and 1E surveyed employees across eight industries in the United States and found that e… Continue reading IT teams failing to deliver a positive remote employee experience

If you’re struggling with Windows 10 migration, updates will be an even bigger challenge

With the end of Windows 7 support on the horizon, many companies remain significantly behind in completing their Windows 10 migration, new data from 1E shows. Of 600 senior IT decision makers surveyed, it was reported that 32% of endpoints were left un… Continue reading If you’re struggling with Windows 10 migration, updates will be an even bigger challenge

60% of businesses have experienced a serious security breach in the last two years

There is an increase in security breaches and businesses still face challenges surrounding cyberattacks due to lack of IT security and operations basics. With digital transformation on the rise and technology massively outpacing policy, companies must … Continue reading 60% of businesses have experienced a serious security breach in the last two years

Infrastructure security: Don’t just sit there, do something!

Around 4am on March 28, 1979, things started to go badly wrong deep inside the bowels of reactor number two at Three Mile Island. Routine maintenance to clear a blockage inadvertently caused a pump shutdown which triggered a cascading series of failure… Continue reading Infrastructure security: Don’t just sit there, do something!

Why cryptography is much harder than software engineers think

The recent ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) raises some important issues about the design of secure cryptographic software. The vulnerability is not in this case an obvious coding error such as a buffer overflow, or the use of a poor quality random … Continue reading Why cryptography is much harder than software engineers think

IT pros spend too much time handling emergencies

A 1E survey of 1,014 IT professionals, who together manage more than 21 million endpoints globally, centered on unplanned activities – how often they occur, what types are most common, and the time spent identifying and addressing issues. Highlights from the survey On average, IT workers spend 29 percent of every day reacting to unplanned incidents or emergencies. Based on a full-time work schedule of 1,700 hours per year, this equates to more than 14 … More Continue reading IT pros spend too much time handling emergencies