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VMware Marketplace includes over 200 market-leading, pre-integrated solutions in the VMware Ready for Telco Cloud certification program. Discover how easy it is to find telco ecosystem partners via the Marketplace. To operate in the digital era, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) have long recognized the need to transform into more agile networks that deliver services on-demand, leverage network resources to improve efficiency, and increase optionality via multi-cloud networks. CSPs around the world have chosen VMware Telco…

Two-step verification can better secure and safeguard your account. Here’s how to set it up. Google will now require all users to enable two-step verification to protect their accounts. This means you’ll be need to respond to a notification on your mobile phone anytime you try to log into a Gmail account or other Google service. How do you set up two-step verification for Google? The process isn’t difficult but does require a few steps…

IT teams are experiencing employee pushback due to remote work policies and many feel like cybersecurity is a “thankless task” and that they’re the “bad guys” for implementing these rules. GettyImages/Petri Oeschger At the onset of COVID-19, companies around the globe shifted to remote work on short notice.  The revamped operations transformed the traditional workday and cybersecurity efforts for companies virtually overnight, leading to new challenges for remote workers and IT teams. On Thursday, HP…

Securing the new hybrid workplace may require significant changes to culture, policy and technology after new HP research revealed significant pushback from remote workers during the pandemic. The tech giant surveyed over 1000 IT decision-makers and more than 8400 workers across the globe to compile its latest HP Wolf Security study, Rebellions & Rejections. It revealed that nearly all (91%) IT leaders had felt pressure to compromise on security during the pandemic, with three-quarters (76%) admitting security took…

The average time it takes threat actors to move from initial access to lateral movement has fallen by 67% over the past year, putting extra pressure on security operations (SecOps) teams, according to CrowdStrike. The findings come from the security firm’s own investigations with customers across around 248,000 unique global endpoints. For incidents where this “breakout time” could be derived over the past year, it averaged just 1 hour 32 minutes. However, in over a third (36%) of…

Tim Berners-Lee has joined the advisory board of ProtonMail, just days after the encrypted email service was criticized for unmasking the identity of a user for French police. The worldwide web inventor was a scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) at the same time as ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen, and helped to sketch the initial plans for what is now the world’s largest encrypted email service, with over 50 million users. “I’m…

Co-authored with Intel471 and McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research (ATR) would also like to thank Coveware for its contribution. Executive Summary McAfee Enterprise ATR believes, with high confidence, that the Groove gang is associated with the Babuk gang, either as a former affiliate or subgroup. These cybercriminals are happy to put aside previous Ransomware-as-a-Service hierarchies to focus on the ill-gotten gains to be made from controlling victim’s networks, rather than the previous approach which prioritized…