Productivity Score will no longer identify how individual users interact with Microsoft 365 apps. Critics had labelled Microsoft’s new Productivity Score a ‘surveillance tool’. Image: iStock/prostock-studio Microsoft has dialed back components of its Productivity Score tool for Microsoft 365 apps following concerns about user privacy. The company faced backlash over a feature rolled out in October that allowed organizations to see how frequently a user interacts with Microsoft 365 apps over a 28-day period. Called…

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has become a powerful tool for organizations to continuously improve their DevOps processes. Learn how you can eliminate bottlenecks from your production workflows using VSM with vRealize Cloud Management.   Value Stream Mapping is a highly effective method used within the DevOps community to optimize a product or service lifecycle for the delivery of customer value. At the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020, one customer after another (for example, American Airlines,…

October marked National Cyber Security Awareness Month, but experts warn that cybersecurity requires attention 24/7/365 By Sam Humphries, Security Strategist, Exabeam Earlier this year in the rapid transition to a remote workforce, we saw security leaders looking to quickly find the right balance between ensuring the organization’s productivity needs are met, and keeping the organization secure. Finding this equilibrium continues. As we maintain a working-from-home structure, we cannot afford to be complacent when it comes…

U.S. law enforcement learned that email attackers are using auto-forwarding rules to help them to perpetrate Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. In a Private Industry Notification published on November 25, the FBI revealed that some BEC scammers are now updating the auto-forwarding rules in the web-based client of an email account they’ve compromised. The FBI explained this tactic is predicated on the hope that administrators did not actively sync the web and desktop email clients…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that global market research firm Forrester has named VMware a leader in both The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization (CCMO), Q4 20201 and The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 20202. “We’re honored to be a leader in both of these Forrester Wave reports,” said Ajay Singh, senior vice … Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc….