A few days ago, a European watchdog group filed a privacy complaint against Google, using EU’s new General Data Protection Regulations as the complaint’s umbrella. While data privacy and protection are not new debates, the European regulation has taken data privacy to new levels. Levels that tech giants are struggling to meet, despite the regulation …
A few years ago, techie individuals had the only interest in cloud computing and cloud-based services. However, it had little use for business at large. That has all changed, and rapidly. No longer are enterprises in a cloud first mentality. Rather, business is rapidly moving towards a cloud only mentality. Unfortunately, most people outside IT …
It’s been about a decade since the business world started focusing on digital transformation. CEOs know it’s important, and often digital transformation is a catch phrase in strategy meetings. But what does that mean, digital transformation? How does a company know they are hitting the mark? After all, any change is painful. Especially systemic and …
Mobility is currently in huge demand at the enterprise level, and there’s no sign that that’s going to slow down any time soon. With smartphones, tablets, and laptops already dominating the workplace, enterprise mobility strategies are needed to meet constantly-growing demands. Many companies are adopting remote workers at an impressive rate, and businesses are thoroughly …
When was the last time you ran an audit on your telecom? Don’t be ashamed if the answer was a long time ago, or never. The truth is most companies don’t run a telecom expense audit unless their invoices are at least 10% over their usual monthly amount. Wait, 10% of the usual monthly amount? …
There has been an ever-increasing need for CPUs, both commercial and consumer, to perform faster. In order to do so, certain aspects have been built into processors. While increasing performance, multithreading and speculative execution have left CPUs and networks around the world at risk. Unlike the speculative execution risk of Spectre and Meltdown, a multi-threading …
Technology is pushing forward in record speed, and business is often stumbling to keep up. A decade ago, telecom consisted of tracking desk phones and paying bills on time. Now telecom consists of mobile devices, desk phones, internet and data services, and IoT. Keeping up with maintenance and assignment of devices can be difficult. Often …
Wireless expense management, also called mobile expense management, is an increasingly important trend, mainly because the world is getting more and more reliant on wireless technologies every day. More people have cell phones and other wireless devices for personal use, and more businesses have their employees use wireless devices to keep in touch with each …
The United States government is in the news for the third time in two weeks regarding their cybersecurity. Not only did the government fail when the weapons program was tested, but now there have been two confirmed data breaches in two weeks. Of course, when the government suffers from cyber threats, it is well published …
This past week has been a rough week for cybersecurity in the Pentagon. Not only did the Pentagon fail in their weapons program security protocols, but the Pentagon has announced a data breach affecting over 30,000 DOD employee records. So, where did the Pentagon fail in security protocols? And what lead to the data breach? …