Information Technology

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.

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:

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%.

New York, NY: 4 October 2018 — Claire Sporton, Senior Vice President of Customer Experience Innovation at Confirmit, has been named a winner of the 2018 CX Impact Awards by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). 

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.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada – September 20, 2018 - WinMagic, an award-winning encryption and key management solution provider, is today encouraging enterprises to adopt server encryption as part of their regular data security strategy – even if those servers are behind lock and key.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 2018 – 123FormBuilder announces the launch of its Android and iOS mobile app at Dreamforce 2018. The app offers mobile and offline functionality through which forms can be accessed and submitted even without an internet connection. The data collected is automatically synced when users connect back to the network. Data is protected in transit and at rest, making the process a highly secure one.

12 September 2018 – New research from the WatchGuard Threat Lab shows the emergence of the Mimikatz credential-stealing malware as a top threat and the growing popularity of brute force login attacks against web applications. The research also reveals that 50 percent of government and military employee LinkedIn passwords, largely from the US, were weak enough to be cracked in less than two days, underscoring the reality that passwords alone can’t offer sufficient protection and the need for multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions. WatchGuard’s Internet Security Report for Q2 2018 explores the latest security threats affecting small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and distributed enterprises. 

Cambridge UK, Wednesday 29 August 2018 – The 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, published today, includes database development as a key technical practice which can drive high performance in DevOps. This matches similar findings in research from Redgate Software, which sponsored the report and provided input.

The longest-running research of its kind, the Accelerate report from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has consistently shown that higher software delivery performance delivers powerful business outcomes.