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February 11, 2020

A CEO’s 5 Golden Rules in Managing a Cybersecurity Crisis

Operational disruptions and litigation costs have an immediate effect on your reputation if not prioritized correctly. Hence, it’s not surprising that shareholders are starting to seek personal consequences for companies involved with a cyber crisis. Effectively management of a cyber crisis involves board-level engagement at both the COO and CFO level.
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February 10, 2020

Beginners guide to Smart Home Technology

With IoT, people across the globe are already bringing smart home technology into their homes for security, simple accessibility, power efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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February 10, 2020

Multipurpose Vest wins Solve for Tomorrow contest

A multi-purpose vest with built-in cooling pads to be used by manual workers to help maintain body temperature was unanimously selected as the winner. The innovative vest also has several pockets and pouches to hold essentials such as water bottles and hand sanitizers.
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February 10, 2020

Gartner CIO survey identifies key challenges for governments

Governments are struggling in many areas, following disruptions including changes in leadership, reorganizations and funding shortfalls. For many government CIOs, disruption will affect their IT budget growth, and the funding and launch of new business initiatives will suffer,” said Alia Mendonsa, senior research director at Gartner.
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February 8, 2020

du participates in the National Career Exhibition 2020

Under the theme “Join our leap into the 50 years”, du will offer exciting career and development opportunities in line with its Emiratisation vision and strategy. The company's strategy focuses on recruiting young Emiratis and help them develop and grow.
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February 6, 2020

Sergio Maccotta appointed SVP for SAP Middle East South

SAP has promoted Sergio Maccotta to the role of Senior Vice President of SAP Middle East South. Maccotta, previously the leader of the Strategic Customer Program team for SAP EMEA South, will continue to be based in Dubai.
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February 6, 2020

Unit 42, spring 2020 edition of Cloud Threat Report

43% of cloud databases are not encrypted and 60% of cloud storage systems have logging disabled. Unencrypted cloud databases can lead to data breaches, with MoviePass a recent example.
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February 6, 2020

SD-WAN needs to integrate network and security functionality

SD-WAN connections require end-to-end security that goes beyond simply encrypting data. Communications between a branch office and a cloud-based application require data inspection at both ends of the connection.
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February 5, 2020

Lessons in digital workplace transformations

When planning your digital workplace transformation, take the time to consider how your employees, guests, visitors and things currently move around your building and map out the network more broadly accordingly. The more mobility you can drive, the more dynamic, flexible and adaptable your workplace will end up being.
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February 5, 2020

Avaya and Afiniti expand partnership

Avaya AI Routing with Afiniti AiRo identifies subtle and valuable patterns in human interactions, which facilitates better pairings between a customer and the optimal agent to drive better outcomes from resulting conversations. The product represents a significant step-change in the availability of AI-driven behavioural pairing technology for organizations of any size, rather than solely large enterprises, expanding the total addressable market by millions of agents.
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