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Poor training is hindering companies’ ability to protect themselves from cybersecurity risks, according to a report from email security company Tessian. Three in four companies in the UK and US have experienced a security incident in the last year, said the report, titled How Security Cultures Impact Employee Behavior. Poor cybersecurity awareness programs and internal communications are primarily to blame. Part of the problem is that employees don’t understand their role in protecting the company. Almost…

How do you compete in a world where the experience is everything, and no organization stands alone? In the not-so-distant past, enterprise executives had the “luxury” of just worrying about producing and delivering a great product. In today’s experience economy, it’s not so simple. The modern consumer and business customer demand an experience that is intuitive, automatic, and seamless. Consistently delivering that combination is complicated enough, but another emergent factor is compounding the situation. Today,…

Uber has settled with the US Department of Justice over its cover-up of a November 2016 data breach. The ride-sharing giant has agreed to help the DoJ prosecute its former chief security officer Joseph Sullivan in exchange for escaping prosecution itself. The settlement stems from a breach that exposed 57 million users’ data, including both passengers and drivers. The intruders accessed a private source code repository and stole an access key, using it to steal the…

The 2022 EMA Network Management Megatrends study makes uncomfortable reading for network professionals. Among many discoveries, it reveals that the percentage of network operations teams that are successful is in steep decline, from 49% in 2016 to 27% in 2022. So why the drop? In the network operations center (NOC), companies rely on traditional NetOps tools that are standardized with operational workflows to triage up/down network issues backed by processes like alarms, events, faults, flows,…