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Project managers know that defining a project’s scope and developing a scope statement is just a starting point. The next part, containing the project’s scope, is much more complicated — and no less crucial. It’s estimated that 52% of all projects face scope creep at some point. Such uncontrolled growth can jeopardize your project’s chances of completion and success. Although companies with mature value-delivery processes are less likely to encounter issues such as scope creep,…

Organizations have been talking about the pivot to hybrid work for so long now that the successful shift to a work-from-anywhere environment may seem like a foregone conclusion.   “From an IT perspective, the pandemic has already provided a trial run for many companies to accommodate hybrid workers,” says Robin Hamerlinck, senior vice president of IT and CIO at Shure. But the solutions and processes quickly assembled during the early days of lockdowns alone will not…

Thousands of QNAP users have been infected by a new ransomware variant flagged by the network-attached storage (NAS) vendor last week, according to a security vendor. Taiwan-headquartered QNAP said last week that customers should urgently upgrade their systems to the latest version of its QTS operating systems and take steps to disconnect devices from the internet to mitigate the campaign. Dubbed “DeadBolt,” the new ransomware variant demands a 0.03 Bitcoin ($1100) payment in return for…

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 24, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT. SonicWall Discloses Cause of Next-Gen Firewall Reboot Loops SonicWall revealed that “certain firewalls running SonicOS 7.0 were not able to correctly process the…

Oracle’s NetSuite division has added two dashboards to its ERP suite for project and cash management for small and medium businesses. The dashboards provide real-time forecasting, without the need for third-party integration, as well as an added layer of analytics. The NetSuite 360 dashboards are designed to proactively inform users of what they should be looking at, said Paul Ferrell, Oracle NetSuite’s VP of product management. Automated forecasting capability within the suite NetSuite Cash 360…

The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry has become a massive technological playground worldwide. Their extensive applications make UAS very popular for the public and the private sector. Armed forces, agricultural industry, law enforcement, meteorological agencies, medical services, environmental companies, and oil refineries are but a few out of the excessive list of UAS users. UAS manufacturers spend a significant amount of money to research and develop high-tech and smart systems from aircraft-size military UAS to…

India’s top IT firms are increasing digital project prices to cover the cost of hiring skilled IT workers in an increasingly competitive market. The competition for digital skills is also resulting in high attrition rates for them — and perhaps also in the enterprise as IT workers are lured elsewhere. Among the largest IT service providers, TCS has done the best job of retaining staff with an attrition rate of 15.3%. Wipro’s rate was 22.7%,…

Smartphones have become such an integral part of our lives that it’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t have them. We carry so much of our lives on our devices, from our social media accounts and photos of our pets to our banking information and home addresses. Whether it be just for fun or for occupational purposes, so much of our time and attention is spent on our smartphones.  Because our mobile devices…

It’s safe to say that we are relieved to put most things COVID in our rearview mirrors when we can. We cheered when fairgrounds went back to being fairgrounds, when cotton candy vendors and Ferris wheels replaced makeshift hospitals and testing sites. And even those who aren’t usually fans of tradeshows may welcome their next chance to travel for work. While we’re eager to put many things behind us, we also learned things during the…

By Joe Vaccaro, VP-Product, ThousandEyes Your enterprise network used to be, well, your enterprise network.  For the most part, all your apps, network hardware, and end-user devices were owned by your organization and under the same roof. Keeping them secure, visible, and optimized was, in hindsight at least, relatively simple.  But the hyper-distributed world of cloud-based apps and hybrid work have upended all that.  Today, your enterprise network is nothing less than the internet itself. Workers depend…