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Are you concerned with the cyber security of your company? Mitigate risks by training your employees. Here’s how: Security awareness isn’t just education, communications and training. It is cultural change and a movement that requires buy in from the top down and the bottom up. It needs to be a credible program that people want … Read more
Using Oracle products? Then this is an article you must read. A 2016 Paris court ruling has recently come to light, revealing the extent to which software supplier Oracle will go in licensing disputes with its customers and approved Oracle implementation partners. The Paris Court of Appeal ruling from March 2016 illustrates the tactics the supplier used against a … Read more
Starting in February, new Azure customers will be sent to Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider program in lieu of the MPSA-based pay-as-you-go license. Microsoft is shifting its licensing for its Azure cloud service, eliminating the pay-as-you-go option for new Azure customers using MPSA (Microsoft Products and Services Agreement) as of Feb. 1. Instead, they will be … Read more
Using industrial products from Cisco, Siemens, Rockwell Automation or Sierra Wireless? Then this article is a must-read for you. An increasing number of vendors have warned customers over the past weeks that their industrial networking products are vulnerable to the recently disclosed Wi-Fi attack method known as KRACK. The KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attack) flaws affect the WPA … Read more
The Office 365 cloud-based productivity suite is Microsoft’s next strategic platform. This is why we thought that the article below may be of interest for you. In its latest quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Microsoft reported that its office commercial products and cloud services revenue had increased by 5%, thanks to Office 365 commercial … Read more
Security policies are as critical to safeguarding networks, as any new cyber security product. But how can these policies be better managed? Ever since the first firewalls were deployed on business networks in the early 1990s, enterprise security goals haven’t really changed: keep the bad guys out, and ensure that only authorized users and software … Read more
Since a lot of our clients are using Adobe products, we thought this information would be useful. Check the article below to learn if the Adobe products you use have been patched. Adobe on Tuesday announced the availability of patches for a total of 80 vulnerabilities across the company’s Flash Player, Photoshop, Connect, Acrobat and Reader, DNG … Read more
Thinking about moving to the cloud? We found an article to help you cope with the software licensing challenges and avoid paying more than you should.\ Enterprise IT data center managers have moved past a good number of obstacles and fears in order to begin running production workloads in the public cloud. Lifting and shifting … Read more
EULAs got your eyes swimming? Head spinning from open source licensing terminology? We found this amazing article with resources to help you get the straight dope. And if things are still unclear, you know where to reach us for professional help. Do you enjoy wading through the minutiae of software licenses, be they EULAs (end-user … Read more
We found this article and thought it might be interesting for any enterprise that wants to plan software spend for the long haul. For most of the history of enterprise software, the model for how organisations have purchased applications has largely been the same. The perpetual license has dominated, whereby companies pay the full price of … Read more
