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It’s hard to deny that hybrid work is here to stay with staff now alternating between the home, office and other locations for the foreseeable future. This means that CIOs need to support and sustain these new work practices even as pandemic-related restrictions ease. Key to achieving this effectively and securely will largely depend on the CIO’s ability to choose, deploy and manage the best cloud and other digital technologies available. CIOs also need to…
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Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™ Exploits & Vulnerabilities This blog discusses how CVE-2021-4034 can be detected and blocked using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Trend Micro Cloud One™. By: Sunil Bharti, Nitesh Surana February 11, 2022 Read time: ( words) PolKit, or PolicyKit, is a component that handles system-wide policies and authorizations in Unix and Unix-like operating systems (OS), allowing non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. PolKit’s pkexec…
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Read on: Hidden Scams in Malicious Scans: How to Use QR Codes Safely The practical approach to life after COVID-19 is for people to learn to live with it and do what they can to manage it. One of the things that is likely to remain for the foreseeable future is the need for cashless and no-contact transactions. Many businesses have responded to this need through the use of quick response (QR) codes, however threats…
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We’ve also seen an increase in “living off the land” attacks where cybercriminals leverage legitimate tools within an enterprise’s network to avoid detection before exfiltrating data. These attacks usually occur during working hours to seem more legitimate. Lastly, Bitcoin has become seemingly integral to ransomware. It’s anonymous, difficult to track, fast, and easy. What more could a bad guy want? It’s no wonder the amount of cryptocurrency funds from ransomware skyrocketed 311% from 2019 to…
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By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax With today’s talk of inflation, it’s worth taking a moment to acknowledge the relentlessly favorable economics of our industry. Since well before my father was programming mainframes and I was learning to code on a Commodore 64, we in tech have benefited from continuously improving price-performance. Lately, DataStax (my employer) has done its part by cutting the cost of write requests to Astra DB (our Apache Cassandra…
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Part 4 of the 6-part Future of Work Networking Series: Reimagine IoT and Smart Buildings The Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technologies (OT) in Smart Buildings are essential to make hybrid work safer and better for people and better for the planet. The importance of environmental sustainability continues to increase as a growing percentage of consumers rate how “green” organizations are as a factor in whether they want to work for them or buy…
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Organizations rely on the cloud for operational agility, efficiency, resilience, and value. According to a recent Gartner report, by 2025, 85% of organizations will be cloud-first. A recent IBM survey tells us that, currently, 97% of businesses worldwide rely on more than one cloud. Still, many organizations might have multiple on-premises applications and data sets that currently are not, and may never be, in the cloud. Many companies’ data infrastructure is a mix of multiple…
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There’s rich — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with not quite $200-billion and Microsoft’s Bill Gates with $132-billion — and then there’s Elon Musk rich: Approximately $241-billion. But, according to a note, “SpaceX Escape Velocity … Who Can Catch Them?” by Morgan Stanley‘s head of auto and space research Adam Jonas, SpaceX will launch him into being the first trillionaire. True, SpaceX makes up less than 17% of Musk’s $241.4 billion net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires…
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The question that I get asked most often by financial services CXO’s is “how do we move beyond just ‘supporting’ Hybrid Work to ‘powering’ Hybrid Work with the right technology stack so that we can address the challenges of attracting and engaging an evolving workforce and keep the organization moving forward in an agile and sustainable way.” Throughout the pandemic, financial services firms have been prioritizing health and safety of their employees by implementing hybrid…
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