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Threat researcher sees no end to ransomware’s growth
Intel Corp.’s McAfee Labs raised some eyebrows in the security community in November with its prediction that “the volume and effectiveness of ransomware attacks will go down in the second half of 2017.” The security firm based its prediction on improvements in preventive technology, better industry coordination, education and stepped-up law enforcement pressure for its ...
Cloud, digital business are forcing an enterprise security rethink
‘Tis the season for security surveys. Two more hit the mailboxes week, both validating the dramatic impact that cloud computing and digital transformation are having on corporate security organizations and budgets. A BMC Software Inc. survey of more than 300 chief information officers and chief information security officers finds that the digital transformation “is forcing ...
Velocidi raises $12M to help marketers make smarter ad choices
Velocidi LLC is taking its first funding round under unusual circumstances: It doesn’t need the money to survive. Founded in 2010, the marketing analytics company has been profitable for the past year-and-a-half. It plans to use its new $12 million in series A funding to invest in sales, marketing and development of a new artificial ...
VMware report finds holistic approach to mobility pays off
Organizations that adopt a “digital workspace” plan, which encompasses a single set of user experiences, access controls and management tools across a range of devices and locations, report much more business, operational and financial benefits than those with less holistic mobility programs. That’s according to a new report published today by VMware Inc., whose State of ...
DataGravity pitches virtual machine-aware security to stop ransomware
Continuing its pivot into the security market following last year’ exit from the storage hardware business, DataGravity Inc. today is announcing DataGravity for Virtualization, a product suite that protects data in virtual machine environments. The company said it’s initially targeting the product at small-to-medium-sized enterprises and positioning it as the most effective protection against ransomware, the rapidly ...
Survey finds high satisfaction with enterprise big data initiatives
Barely a year after Gartner Inc. predicted that 60 percent of big data projects won’t get past the pilot stage, a new survey from NewVantage Partners LLC paints a considerably rosier picture. The big data/business innovation advisory firm’s fifth annual Big Data Executive Survey finds that 80 percent of the enterprise-class respondents say their big ...
‘Doxware’ adds malicious twist to ransomware threats
In Shut Up and Dance, a 2016 episode of the creepy Netflix series Black Mirror, an assortment of characters who are unknown to each other are thrown together in a macabre crime drama orchestrated by an unknown puppetmaster who threatens to reveal secrets about each person that have been captured via online surveillance. The newest ...
HPE claims breakthrough in optical microprocessing
Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city? It sounds like a problem that was tailor-made for computers to solve, but it turns out that this classic “traveling salesman problem” is a ...
Survey finds enterprises gearing up for IoT on a grand scale
The Internet of Things may still be on the launchpad at many organizations, but that isn’t stopping them from preparing for blastoff. New data from 451 Research LLC reveals that 71 percent of nearly 1,000 enterprises surveyed are gathering data for IoT initiatives today. That’s up 3 percent from the previous quarter. The dollars are ...
How the Internet of Things slashed one fleet owner’s accident costs
The Internet of Things may still be mostly in incubation, but in some industries it’s already mainstream. One of those is vehicle fleet management. Operators have been using telematics and computerized engine diagnostics for years to squeeze more life out of cars and trucks while improving efficiency through route and schedule optimization. Now the same ...
