CISOs have become leaders in their businesses rather than just experts in their departments. They need to educate their peers on the scope, scale, severity and solutions for cybersecurity and how emerging threats affect each aspect of the business, elevate the cybersecurity discussion out of the trenches of speeds, feeds and fingerprints and finally report […]

The Internet of Things is getting a lot of attention these days. A reason is the size of the economic activity generated – as much as $11.1 trillion by 2025 in an analysis from the McKinsey Global Institute. According to McKinsey Global, the IoT economic impact on factories, retail settings, work sites, offices and homes […]

PREDICTIONS 2018 With all the personal technology currently available, it can be difficult for businesses to decipher which represent an opportunity for end customers and which are too immature to warrant any attention. But when used correctly, these technologies can have big business impact. For example, Mastercard recently revealed card with fingerprint authentication embedded in […]

High profile data breaches are regularly in the news and, seemingly, businesses are losing the battle to protect their intellectual property (IP), corporate and customer data from the threats posed by professional cybercriminals. It is no surprise that financial gain is the single biggest motivator for cyberattacks. The 2016, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report […]

Early Tuesday a public cloud had an issue and many IT departments got the call they do not want: Our website is down, ecommerce is down. What else is affected? What are you going to do about it and when? Just after noon US Eastern Standard Time, the Amazon Simple Storage Service, cloud storage buckets in US-East-1 […]

Whilst it is a commonly held belief that reducing and removing paper is a best practice, we are still a long way from becoming a paper-free world. 25% of the businesses polled in the AIIM Paper-Free in 2016, Are we there yet? Report, indicated that they run a totally paper-free environment, a mere 7% increase […]

Hackers got hold of over one billion identities last year, as data breach incidents just kept on escalating. If ever a statistic highlighted the failure of current approaches to protect corporate systems, it is this one. In fact, two-thirds of organisations have experienced an average of five breaches over the past two years, according to […]

Today, cloud is a well-known buzzword with leading business executives and business decision makers. However, initiating an end-to-end cloud journey for an organisation, as a first step into digital transformation, is a more challenging task. An organisation’s cloud journey involves strong interplay between heads of business and IT decision makers as well as senior management. […]

Epicor, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has announced that Havelock AHI, a leading interior manufacturer and fit-out contractor, has implemented the next-generation Epicor ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution across its six locations in the GCC. With Epicor ERP serving as the backbone of the business, Havelock AHI has been […]

The single biggest purpose of community is to bring together people with similar interests and provide a sense of belonging. Typically, IT communities foster a culture where members learn, connect with their peers, and feel encouraged to engage with each other. Businesses build communities to further collective actions and provide solutions to issues commonly faced […]