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Today’s employees are setting up shop outside the office, working on the go, and collaborating wherever they are. This new approach to work requires modernizing IT to enable this flexibility while ensuring a robust, secure employee experience. Lenovo delivers a range of hardware, software, and services—integrated solutions that enable modern IT. The foundation of these solutions is modern devices with Windows 10 Pro and the Intel® Evo™ vPro® platform. These technologies and tools keep employees…

IT asset management is a critical function for IT teams; doing so effectively drives end-user productivity and the ability to better manage total cost of ownership. However, when this is not optimized or built to scale for the evolving needs of an organization, IT teams may find themselves facing multiple challenges such as difficulty in tracking lost/critical assets, software compliance issues, sub-optimal IT usage spends, and over-burdened IT resources. Lenovo Smart Fleet Services helps organizations…

Security researchers are warning of a new critical remote code execution bug in a popular Java developer framework, although reports that it could be the next Log4Shell may be overblown. Dubbed “SpringShell” by some in the community, the vulnerability affects the spring-core artifact, a popular framework used extensively in Java applications, specifically with JDK9 or newer running. “The vulnerability affects anyone using spring-core, a core part of the Spring Framework, to perform logging, and anyone…

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack on a leading satellite comms provider on the day of Russia’s invasion hit tens of thousands of customers in Ukraine and elsewhere, the firm has revealed. Viasat said the “multifaceted and deliberate” cyber-attack took the majority of its thousands of Ukrainian customers offline, although the network was “largely stabilized within hours” and fully stabilized within several days. It began when some hijacked modems and other customer equipment inside Ukraine began firing high…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant shift in South African consumer behaviour, with more shoppers turning to loyalty programmes than ever before. In fact, the average economically active South African belongs to about eight different programmes. As the CIO of Discovery Vitality, Nadira Misthry is invested in this trend. Vitality is the rewards programme for Discovery, a South African-founded financial services organisation that serves the healthcare, life assurance, short-term insurance, savings and investments, banking and wellness…

In the latest stage of its mega-project to diversify the country’s economy by investing in the tech sector, the Egyptian government is refocusing on its once-thriving offshoring industry, looking in particular to fields including business-process optimisation, AI, and analytics. This has great revenue potential for the country, with analyst firm IDC predicting the global offshoring market will reach US$540 billion in value by 2026, up from US$310 billion in 2019. Following on from the work…

Every CIO is acutely aware that their IT infrastructure now underpins the success of the business. Scalable, integrated compute, network, and data platforms are the prerequisites to delivering exceptional experiences for customers and staff. The challenge now? For IT to design a modern, cloud-first infrastructure that is integrated, secure and software-driven, all while ‘keeping the lights on’ for the company’s existing business processes. Why organisations are turning to cloud-first Organisations that have successfully implemented a…

Spring4Shell FAQ: Spring Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A list of frequently asked questions related to Spring4Shell. Tenable Research is closely monitoring updates related to Spring4Shell. As more information becomes available, we will update this FAQ with additional details about the vulnerability, including Tenable product coverage. Frequently Asked Questions about Spring4Shell What is Spring4Shell? Spring4Shell is the nickname given to a zero-day vulnerability in the Spring Core Framework, a programming and configuration model for Java-based…

Earlier in the year, a World Bank report into Asia Pacific confirmed something many of us assumed – disruption in business across Asia Pacific has been severe. There are signs of recovery – for example, another report found that new business formation has lifted 35 per cent year-on-year across the region, however businesses still face ongoing disruption into 2022 and beyond, and this is informing an Industry 4.0 mentality towards transformation. For example, one sector…