Information Technology

2018 Unisys Security Index™: Identity Theft Top Concern for UK Citizens, Social Media Exploitation Fuelling Fear Amongst Millennials

London, UK. October 24, 2018 – The 2018 Unisys Security Index™, a leading security barometer which surveys over 1,000 UK citizens, has revealed identity theft as the top worry for UK citizens, with 56 percent of respondent registering that they were very or extremely concerned. Concerns over identity theft eclipsed those related to national security, the top concern in 2017.

IBM i professionals reveal security and compliance concerns with legacy enterprise applications

PETERBOROUGH, NH – October 16, 2018 – 63 per cent of IBM i users in a new survey reveal their organizations are keeping legacy IT applications alive – either on IBM i or other platforms – because the historical data those systems hold remains useful. This is despite many survey respondents agreeing that running these obsolete systems poses a risk to digital transformation, data privacy and security.

The survey of 46 IBM i users, conducted by SoftLanding® Systems, a division of UNICOM® Global, was completed by attendees at two recent IBM i conferences, International i-Power 2018 and PowerUP18. 

Panaya Offers Best-In-Class Integrations to Better Support Modern Software Development and Delivery

Hackensack, NJ – October 16, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery, today announced the integration of over 150 leading application development and delivery tools and services into Panaya Release Dynamix (RDx), its Enterprise Agile Delivery (EAD) platform. Users can now take advantage of the tools they already employ every day to increase visibility, collaboration and communication among all stakeholders – the business, development, operations and test teams. With these new RDx integrations, organizations can now deliver application changes from ideation to realization in one unified platform. 

Quoting IT: Mistakes and Organizational Behavior

"Luckily, the company culture is to attack the problem, not the person. Everyone understood that if one person can bring down the site, there must be a lot of other issues involved. So instead of placing the blame on me, our engineering organization made some changes to prevent that from ever happening again."

- Katie Shannon, What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.comVentureBeat, October 13, 2018.

Enterprise IT Seeking VPN Alternatives for Applications Networking, IIoT and Multi-cloud; According to Futuriom Survey

CHARLOTTE, NC - October 10th 2018 -- NetFoundry today announced the findings of a new survey of 200 enterprise IT managers discussing applications networking, security and the cloud. The shift of applications from on premises applications to hybrid-cloud environments has posed myriad challenges to IT departments who need to efficiently and securely connect applications. To gain insight into these challenges, the research firm Futuriom surveyed 200 IT managers in application development, networking, security and DevOps and reached some major conclusions in a new report.

Panaya Named User Experience Testing Solution Vendor of the Year

Hackensack, NJ – October 9, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery platforms, has been named the User Experience Testing Solution Vendor of the Year by QA Financial at the QA Vector Awards 2018. They are the only awards dedicated to software quality assurance, testing, delivery and IT risk management at banks and other financial services firms.

The User Experience Testing Solution Vendor of the Year highlights an organization that helps its customers build a strong user experience online as this has an increasingly significant impact in overall market share, especially in retail financial services. The winners of the awards have demonstrated:

North American credential theft industry records substantial quarterly increase, against declines in Europe and Asia

09 October 2018 – Barcelona, Spain – Blueliv, a leading European enterprise-class cyberthreat intelligence company, today releases its latest quarterly credential theft analysis following the initial release of its report on The Credential Theft Ecosystem in June 2018. According to Blueliv’s credential detection data, compromised credentials retrieved from botnets geolocated to North America has risen by 141% quarter-over-quarter (March to May 2018 over June to August 2018). Meanwhile, Blueliv has observed that Europe and Russia saw a decrease of 22%, while compromised credentials geolocated to Asian countries dropped by 36%.

Titan IC announces the launch of its RXP search and content inspection technology in the latest Xilinx SDAccel environment

SAN JOSE, Calif.– (XDF18 Conference) – Oct. 2, 2018 – Today Titan IC announced a new technology collaboration embedding its industry-leading Regular Expression Processor (RXP) into Xilinx’s SDAccel environment.

Titan IC’s RXP technology is a unique, fully-scalable, hardware-accelerated solution for Security Analytics Acceleration (SAA) and content processing, designed for high throughput, low latency applications that require Regular Expression pattern matching. This progressive technology can be used in various applications such as security processing, data loss prevention, intrusion detection/prevention systems, DDoS protection, big data analytics, and FPGA-based SmartNICs.