We’re getting into the end-of-year holiday season. In addition to our busy end-of-year business schedule, we need to plan for family visits, develop menus for special meals, and possibly do a little shopping while the deals are good. It’s a lot to keep track of. Just remember it’s when you are distracted that you tend to put your digital security most at risk. Digital criminals don’t take holidays.

Egnyte users want to get the files they need as fast as possible. Less time spent scouring folders means more time doing the work that really matters, and one of the best ways to do that is with the Egnyte Desktop App. With the Egnyte Desktop App you get real-time access to all your files and folders stored in the cloud, directly from your computer.

For the next instalment in our series of interviews asking leading technology specialists about their achievements in their field, we’ve invited the CIO/CISO of World Insurance, Liz Tluchowski to share her thoughts on the state of Cybersecurity today. Liz is in charge of cybersecurity for both the corporate side of World Insurance, which is one of the 100 largest insurance brokerages in the U.S. and the 125 additional agencies around the country that they have acquired.

Social Engineering is a form of security fraud that relies on psychological manipulation techniques to trick people into revealing sensitive information. This is often carried out online using a variety of social engineering techniques; one of the more commonly referred to social engineering attacks are phishing attacks (including, vishing, smishing, spear phishing and whale phishing).

There’s little in the world of technology that qualifies as sui generis (that is, unique unto itself). What goes around really does come around and there is safety in respecting that. Why look back to then in cybersecurity? Because one of the best ways to understand how to protect your network, Wi-Fi, and endpoints is to familiarize yourself with what led to today’s tortuous threat landscape.

Every company needs to undertake a certain amount of planning if it wants to grow. This includes not only strategic planning to expand operations and increase profits; executives also need to plan for risks they might encounter so they can anticipate and avoid threats. It makes sense, therefore, to integrate this planning throughout your organization so that no business function goes overlooked.

The phrase “governance, risk, and compliance” (GRC) was first introduced in the early 2000s by the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG). Since then, the concept has fundamentally changed how businesses operate. Although GRC is not a revolutionary idea by any means, it is integral to assuring that organizations can achieve, and maintain, optimal business continuity.

A supply chain is the ecosystem of processes, systems, and entities that work together to transform an idea into a final product and customer-ready offering. That lifecycle consists of multiple moving parts. As global supply chain complexity increases, organizations in every industry require robust and reliable supply chain management (SCM) tools, processes, and people. Coordination of the supply chain is critical for efficiency and optimization.

Gone are the days when organizations used to run and scale their offline businesses at three-toed sloth’s speed. The inception of the Internet turned into a really pervasive and groundbreaking force in our life, with millions of Websites serving billions of web pages to people on a daily basis. Through various advancements, web and SaaS applications have become intelligent, dynamic and asynchronous.

In recent years the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 have left many people with fears and questions. With various medical opinions, news outlets spreading varied statistics, case number and death reports, and safety recommendations that varied between countries, states, cities, and individual businesses, people often felt desperate for information.