Report: Growing Digital Security Management Gap

LONDON – Aug. 23, 2017 – RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today announced that it has published its 2017 State of Enterprise Digital Defence Report, available for download. Independent research for the report, which offers key insights into the current landscape of digital threats and the maturity of defences to protect an organization’s digital presence, was conducted by IDG Connect. The findings quantify the security management gap and business impact of external web, social, and mobile threats.

What Amazon Sellers Should Try to Keep in Mind Regarding Keyword Research and SEO

Even though virtually everyone knows the importance of search engine optimization (SEO) for sellers on e-commerce platforms like Amazon, it helps to have a list of handy tips to refresh the memory. It is not unusual for even seasoned SEO practitioners to forget the crux of certain vital points over time, hence a quick checklist of the most important issues:

How to Choose the Ideal Business Intranet Solution for Your Company

Intranet solutions are at the heart of many businesses today, helping to facilitate a seamless flow of information across all levels of the organisation and streamlining the core business processes. In an agile work environment, a business intranet helps the employees to stay connected with each other and correspond over a secure shared network.

The decision to go ahead with a business intranet solution can be quite rewarding for companies in the long term. However, with plenty of intranet options available in the market, it can get quite confusing in knowing what platform best suits your requirements and how to make the best choice?

WatchGuard’s New Fireboxes Chew Through Encrypted Traffic 94 Percent Faster Than Competitors

15 August 2017 – WatchGuard® Technologies has announced hardware upgrades to its Firebox® M Series to handle the rapid proliferation of encrypted web traffic and offer more flexibility. With the new M470, M570 and M670 appliances, users can add additional network modules to increase the number of copper or fibre ports available to support the growing use of 10G fibre in midsize enterprise data centres. The new Firebox M Series appliances also enable users to inspect encrypted traffic with industry-leading performance with all security services enabled. According to Miercom, an independent testing lab, the updated Firebox M370 performs full HTTPS inspection 94% faster than competing solutions.

Report: Brand mentions on Instagram Stories vs. Snapchat among influencers

August 9, 2017 --- Snaplytics is a marketing platform for new social channels including Snapchat and Instagram stories. In August they will launch their Brand Listening service to analyze brands share of voice among influencers and which influencers are most active on the story based platforms.

Snaplytics analyzed over 800 influencers in depth over the last quarter, to identify how many updates contained brand mentions, which brands were being mentioned and who mentioned them on what platform. It turns out while Snapchat has had a downward going slope in terms of influencer activity Instagram Stories is gaining more and more traction, especially among larger brands.

SendGrid Improves Email Marketing Editor Experience

While I may be an old dog with decades of experience utilizing websites for marketing purposes, I'm more like a newborn puppy when it comes to email marketing. Until a couple years ago, I never utilized email campaigns or email newsletters in hopes to get more visits to my websites. My current email marketing service provider is MailChimp, but there is another customer communication platform that is on my radar, Colorado-based SendGrid.