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Lately, it seems like change is the only constant in the world of unified communications. The rise of new technology, spreading all the way from cloud-based connectivity to artificial intelligence and IoT, has caused the UC landscape to change drastically. There’s more to communication than picking up a phone or speaking to someone in person. Every day, we’re discovering new...

Hearing the phrase B2B unified communications (UC) conjures up images of the traditional conference call - hammering in the random passcode, stating your name, sitting back and listening to the copyright-free piece of salsa music until others join and the conference call starts. Perhaps you’ve sat waiting for the other person, staring at the telephone, sending hopeful emails...

Cyber-security firm Imperva have published a detailed post-mortem report of a security breach the company disclosed two months ago, in August. The company blamed the security breach on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) API key a hacker stole from an internal system that was left accessible from the internet. The post-mortem is a little bit convoluted, but we summarized the series...

Twitter has announced that it “unintentionally” used phone numbers and email addresses for advertising purposes even though the information was provided by users for two-factor authentication. According to Twitter, no personal data was shared with the company’s third-party partners, and the “issue that allowed this to occur” has been addressed. As of September 17th, phone nu...

London food delivery juggernaut Deliveroo is under pressure after an investigation found hackers placing fake orders and selling off account details to the dark web. Opportunist thieves are putting groups of accounts up online, priced at a fraction of the credit available, with even more opportunist thieves buying those accounts and ordering themselves food, booze, and even ...

Technology research giant Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). You can download it here. Gartner researchers define identity governance and administration as “tools designed to manage digital identity and entitlements (access rights) across multiple systems and applications.” In other words, Gartner...

There has been a surge in female applicants for the NCSC’s 2019 CyberFirst cyber-security summer courses (held in Cardiff, Belfast, Paisley, Newcastle, Birmingham and London), up 47 percent on 2018, while overall applications for the courses went up by 29 percent over the same period. Working with training experts QA and education charity The Smallpeice Trust, the NCSC deliv...

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Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform and SecureLink, one of Europe's most respected managed security service providers, today announced a strategic partnership extending SecureLink's current security offering to safely enable enterprises. SecureLink is launching a new service built on the Cybereason platform - SecureDetect Endpoint - which will benefit ...

Brit security software slinger Sophos has accepted an all-cash offer from US suitor private equity group Thoma Bravo of just over £3bn. The antivirus provider's shareholders will get $7.40 per share, a bonus of 37 per cent on Friday's prices. Recommending the offer, Sophos chairman Peter Gyenes said: "It is the view of the Sophos Board that this is a compelling offer for Sop...