On Aug. 9, 2022, two former Twitter employees we found guilty accepting bribes from Saudi Arabia in exchange for confidential information stolen from the accounts of thousands of users, most of whom are critics of the Saudi government. Authorities say the employees stole email and IP addresses, biographical information, log data and more, even though their jobs did not require access to such information.

Unprecedented business, economic, social and geopolitical challenges are contributing to a perfect storm of cybersecurity risks, but few organizations have the resources necessary to deal with the fallout. As cybercrime reaches all-time highs, a new study finds that the global cybersecurity workforce must grow by 72 percent to effectively address the crisis.

Nearly half of Americans say they couldn’t get through the day without Wi-Fi, according to a recent OnePoll survey. We suspect the other half just don’t fully comprehend how much they depend on the technology.

Pandemic lockdowns that forced most of us to work remotely led to remarkable changes in network traffic patterns.

Streamlining manual processes helps companies of all sizes become more efficient and competitive.

Increased automation helps businesses become more innovative, productive and prosperous, but there’s a tendency to think that only the largest corporations have the money and manpower to effectively leverage these tools.

Attacks against infrastructure, supply chains and cloud resources
 are likely to be among the top threats in the coming year.

Cybercrime is among the biggest threats facing businesses today, creating financial and operational burdens that many organizations simply cannot overcome.

Analysts say the market value of cloud-based Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solutions will more than double by the end of the decade. Organizations are adopting UCaaS to create a cohesive communication and collaboration strategy to support increasingly decentralized operations.

Most businesses today are highly dependent on goods and services from vast networks of third-party providers. Studies find that the typical company has more than 500 supply chain partners, although large multinational brands often have 100,000 or more. While these relationships create economies of scale and operational efficiencies, they also create exposure to a variety of cyber threats.

Software-defined WAN provides greater network agility and resilience for organizations with multiple locations.

The vast majority of organizations are engaged in a digital transformation initiative or are planning one. Organizations need to fully leverage technology to meet changing customer demands and respond to competitive pressures.

Most successful security breaches involve unpatched systems.

Patch management has been getting progressively more complex over the last several years, but remote and hybrid work models have ramped up the challenge considerably. With work-from-home policies becoming permanent, IT teams are tasked with securing huge numbers of endpoints not under their physical control.

Edge computing has been around for the better part of three decades, but it only entered the mainstream technology conversation a few years ago when it became a key enabler of Internet of Things (IoT) projects. While it remains essential for facilitating IoT initiatives, the edge model now has far more broad appeal with important use cases in practically every industry vertical.