New Zealand cyber-attacks & data on remote workLet’s take a quick tour of New Zealand. First, the stock exchange there was halted for... By: Dave Sobel/August 26, 2020/Security
Upticks in harassment complaints related to online communicationsAfter discussing the opportunities, let’s talk about a downside. The Wall Street Journal digs into the... By: Dave Sobel/August 26, 2020/Business Strategy
Microsoft launches Transcribe in WordNews you can use – Microsoft has launched Transcribe in Word. Available in the online version... By: Dave Sobel/August 26, 2020/Product & Company Updates
Service Leadership’s Mid-Year IT Service Provider Report Card. How are we doing?Service Leadership released their IT Service Provider Mid-Year Report Card. Let’s review some of the findings.... By: Dave Sobel/August 25, 2020/
The British Army considers cyber over tanksThe British Army is considering dropping tanks in favor of cyber capabilities, per reporting in the... By: Dave Sobel/August 25, 2020/Security
Kaseya reveals insights into the current marketKaseya kicked off their Connect IT event virtually today, and presented some survey data on the... By: Dave Sobel/August 24, 2020/Business Strategy
Botnet usage increases, leveraged against home networks to exploit work from homeNuspire released their Threat Landscape Report for Q2 2020. Nuspire observed an increase in both botnet... By: Dave Sobel/August 24, 2020/Security
CompTIA ends their state and federal lobbying effortsIn an announcement to membership via email, CompTIA revealed they have ended their state and federal... By: Dave Sobel/August 24, 2020/Diversity, Regulation
Salesforce extends WFH, benefits: A provider opportunity?Salesforce is keeping staff home until July 31, 2021, and have implemented support for assisting with... By: Dave Sobel/August 21, 2020/Business Strategy
Overconfidence in work from home securityMalwarebytes with what is always catnip for me, data. Surveying 200 IT and cybersecurity decision makers,... By: Dave Sobel/August 21, 2020/Security
2 Microsoft, 1 Google Security items: 2 are bugs, one a productIn Blocking and Tackling news today, Microsoft has issued an out of band Windows security update... By: Dave Sobel/August 21, 2020/Product & Company Updates, Security
Stocks, CEO pay, and furloughs. What can we learn?Three business focused stories out I want to highlight. The New York Times has a piece... By: Dave Sobel/August 20, 2020/Business Strategy
Remote work – what’s the SMB opportunity?TechAisle with some research data into remote work. Quoting from the research: Pre-pandemic, 24% of SMB... By: Dave Sobel/August 20, 2020/Business Strategy
Phone spear phishing on the rise post Twitter attackIn the wake of the phone spear phishing attack against Twitter last month, researchers are reporting... By: Dave Sobel/August 19, 2020/Security
Ecommerce accelerates ten years in three monthsMeanwhile, new data reported by Benedict Evans shows the acceleration of previous trends brought on by... By: Dave Sobel/August 19, 2020/Business Strategy
Zoom coming to Nest, Echo and PortalZoom is coming to Google Nest, Amazon Echo, and Facebook Portal smart displays. The company has... By: Dave Sobel/August 19, 2020/Business Strategy
Zero Trust Architecture: There is opportunity hereHighlighting a blog post today by KuppingerCole over on MSSP Alert, which digs into the recently... By: Dave Sobel/August 19, 2020/Business Strategy, Newsletter, Security
The rush on laptops impacts educationThat rush on laptops as the world pivoted to work from home, combined with manufacturing and... By: Dave Sobel/August 18, 2020/
Broadband Speeds in the PandemicLaptops are only once piece – connectivity the other. Broadband search has provided some new insights... By: Dave Sobel/August 18, 2020/Business Strategy
Cloud Channels Analysis: Retail and Ecommerce LeaderData analyst Canalys has released their Cloud Channels Analysis Service, looking at the top cloud service... By: Dave Sobel/August 18, 2020/Business Strategy