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Why vendor breaches still haunt enterprise IT leaders
Nearly half (47%) of enterprises suffered highly disruptive outages due to vendor-related breaches last year, according to research from Resilience. This is a blind spot for businesses, the report said, with many businesses claiming familiarity but not confidence in their reliance on third parties. While 83% of those surveyed described themselves as ‘familiar’ with their third-party vendor systems, just 35%…
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Google’s latest genAI shift is a reminder to IT leaders — never trust vendor policy – Computerworld
If they add a clause to every RFP that they will only work with model-makers that agree to not do X, Y, or Z, that will get a lot of attention. The contract would have to be realistic, though. It might say, for instance, “If the model-maker later chooses to accept payments for the above-described prohibited acts, they must reimburse…
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Samsung Was the Top Semiconductor Vendor Globally in 2024
Samsung regained the top of the leaderboard of semiconductor companies by revenue, Gartner said on Feb. 3 in its yearly worldwide semiconductor vendor statistics report. Global semiconductor revenue hit $626 billion, up 18.1% from 2023. “The rising demand for AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads led data centers to become the second-largest market for semiconductors in 2024, behind smartphones,” said…
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Vendor Spotlight: UnderDefense
UnderDefense is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing comprehensive solutions to protect organizations against cyber threats and ensure compliance. Its flagship platform, UnderDefense MAXI is a security platform that was developed by exploiting the experience of the company’s experiences running managed detection and response (MDR) services. This platform is designed to enhance security operations by reducing false positives, providing…
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Vendor Spotlight: ISL Online
XLAB d.o.o. is known for its innovative products such as ISL Online (remote desktop software), Steampunk Spotter (Ansible Playbook Scanning Tool), Gaea+ (a customizable 3D visualization solution), TeleTransfusion (an online interpreter for pre-transfusion tests), and XLAB Medic (3D dental and radiology imaging solutions). XLAB is also heavily involved in research, running one of the largest private computer science research departments…
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Vendor Spotlight: Kualitee
Kualitatem operates a list of software testing services and other systems development consultancy activities. The business developed its own software QA package in the course of its operations – this is called Kualitee. Kualitatem operates on two continents, with offices in Pakistan and the USA. Its corporate structure includes Kualitatem, Inc in the USA and Kualitatem Pvt. Ltd. in Pakistan.…
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Vendor Spotlight: SanerNow
SecPod gets its name from a contraction of Security Platform. The company produced the SanerNow cloud-based cybersecurity SaaS package. SecPod originally marketed this system as a “cyber hygiene platform” but is now phasing in the term CVEM, which stands for Continuous Vulnerability and Exposure Management. So, just one paragraph in, we already know that SecPod likes to create its own…
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Vendor Spotlight: Nagios
In 1999, Ethan Galstad came up with the idea of a system monitoring tool that could easily be extended, creating a core that others could add to, making it a very comprehensive and world-beating system over years of work. He chatted with other programmers on forums in the early days of the World Wide Web and gathered enthusiastic interest from…
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Vendor Spotlight: Pandora FMS
Pandora FMS is a network monitoring tool that was developed by a Spanish team. As with many enthusiast-developed software, the system existed before the company that owns it. In this case, the software was released in October 2004 and the company, Ártica Soluciones Tecnológicas, was founded in October 2005 in Madrid. Oh, and Ártica Soluciones Tecnológicas is Spanish for Arctic…
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Vendor Spotlight: Cacti
Cacti is one of the longest-running network monitoring systems available. It is a free tool and is actually a front-end for another free system, called RRDtool. This system has a small footprint and it works efficiently, based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which is the mechanism at the heart of most network device performance monitoring systems. A great…
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