Tag: Security

January 18, 2024

Businesses have experienced persistent attacks on their IT infrastructure in 2023 and it looks like that trend will continue in 2024. According to Cisco, crypto mining, phishing, ransomware, trojans, and command and control were the leading attack types in 2023. […]

July 11, 2023

While generative AI advancements seem to dominate headlines in enterprise communications (EC) these days, security has also been receiving some welcome attention. Security is not the most glamorous topic in EC, but it’s critically important to stay at least one […]

May 2, 2023

ONUG, the voice of the Global 2000, today announced the final program and speaker line up for its ONUG Spring 2023 event being held live at Union Station in Dallas, Texas, as well as virtually, on May 17-18, 2023. ONUG […]

March 14, 2023

It comes as no surprise that talk of private wireless was rampant at Mobile World Congress 2023, and while Steve Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent Communications, was impressed by several of the use cases on display, he encouraged […]

October 11, 2022

Fully 30% of enterprises tell me they spend as much on acquiring capital equipment and software to support security technology as they do on network technology. With an investment this prodigious, you’d think enterprises were focusing on how the cloud […]

October 11, 2022

Since its inception, the global pandemic has continued to have a long-lasting impact on how we buy, work, and also how our businesses operate.  As such, user behaviour has naturally evolved, leading to developments in customer experience (CX) to meet […]

September 26, 2022

Gartner came out with its annual SD-WAN magic quadrant last week. I agree with their placements and predict that, in the coming years, the field will narrow from six vendors to four. An SD-WAN solution is a long-term investment that […]

June 23, 2022

The whole may or may not be greater than the sum of its parts, but it’s becoming clear that the whole is more complicated than it first appeared. Mathematicians will tell you that the complexity of an interrelated system grows […]

June 20, 2022

The cloud and managed service provider space has been a dynamic environment over the past few years as technology races to keep up with changes in the enterprise marketplace. With the workforce shifting from corporate campuses out to suburban homes, […]

June 3, 2022

Securing a suddenly all-remote contingent of knowledge workers was an ongoing effort over the past couple of years, and the job of tightening up that security posture will continue post-pandemic, according to two enterprise security experts who took part in […]

May 18, 2022

“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” –Mark Twain There seems to be an assumption in the unified communications and collaboration industry that premise-based phone systems are a thing of the past. It is certainly true that many organizations […]

May 9, 2022

LifeRaft, a Software as a Service threat intelligence technology provider, announced today that the board of directors has appointed Jonathan Graff as the company’s new president and chief executive officer. An experienced technology business leader and venture capital investor, Graff […]

March 17, 2022

Over the past two years, it seems as if we haven’t heard the word “migration” as often as we used to. Migration was the default setting for how an enterprise went from one generation of strategic technology to the next. […]

January 3, 2022

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology today announced that Sumit Sadana has been appointed Lead Director of the company’s board of directors. Sadana succeeds Bill Wood who has held that position since 2005 and remains […]

November 19, 2021

Ask in the abstract, and most operators will say they favor opening up closed technologies. More participants brings more innovation, competitive pricing pressure, what could be bad? Well, more players can also mean more complexity, more complicated interdependencies, more opportunity […]

November 18, 2021

In the first part of this three-part series, we explored the security and automation benefits of mobile device-management apps. It’s time to explore the pros and cons of company-provided mobile devices vs. running a bring your own device (BYOD) program. […]

November 12, 2021

The bulk of the Enterprise Connect 2022 (EC2022) program is online, and I’m excited about how it’s coming together. Right now, the enterprise communications/collaboration industry is undergoing a major transformation — innovating at a breakneck speed. Enterprises themselves are at […]

October 15, 2021

On No Jitter this week, Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research has a post summing up the latest announcements from Box, the content management company whose platform, Zeus points out, two-thirds of the Fortune 500 currently use. Box focuses on content […]

October 13, 2021

At this point, we all heard about the six-hour outage of all of Facebook’s services last week. Though some people might have enjoyed watching Facebook fumble a response, the outage highlights a major business issue. The outage most likely impacted […]

October 8, 2021

On No Jitter this week, my colleague Ryan Daily offers a good wrap-up of last week’s Enterprise Connect 2021 virtual event, highlighting four themes: what she calls “the voice renaissance,” hybrid work, unified platforms for communications and collaboration, and the […]