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May 2017

Flexera Embeds Open Source Security Scanning into Software Development Build Process

8 years ago By Real Wire

Maidenhead, UK – May 10, 2017 – Flexera, the company that’s reimagining the way software is bought, sold, managed and secured, announced today it’s reimagining software supply chain safety. Flexera’s the first-in-industry to embed open source security into the heart of the software development build process with automatic analysis detection. It will help keep the software supply chain secure by enabling 100,000 developers around the world to sell clean products, free of open source vulnerabilities and license compliance risk.

UKCloud Replicates Public Sector Success With New Healthcare Division

8 years ago By Real Wire

London – 10 May 2017 – UKCloud, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services company, has today announced the launch of a new division, UKCloud Health, which will deliver an open, collaborative and UK sovereign public cloud platform specifically to the healthcare industry, supporting health and care organisations, research and life sciences and pharmaceuticals.

The launch comes as research shows that 75 percent of UK adults are concerned about the protection of their personal data, including medical records, by companies and public services. *

IGEL Upgrades Universal Desktop™ UD5 and UD6 Thin Clients; Adds Support for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

8 years ago By Real Wire

Reading, UK. May 10th, 2017 – IGEL, a world leader in endpoint management software for the secure enterprise, today announced that it has upgraded the IGEL Universal Desktop™-series UD5 and UD6 thin clients, adding support for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise.

Protecting long-term digital information is key to driving business value

8 years ago By Real Wire

Boston, MA - New research from the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) reveals that 83% of organizations aim to realize direct business value from their long-term digital information, across such areas as market analysis, product innovation, and customer service, but only a minority (16%) have a viable approach for proper governance and preservation.

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An End of an Era: Mollom End-of-Life Announcement

8 years ago By Bryan Ruby

Sometimes I get too nostalgic over computers or software that I once used in my daily life. I remember my first computer (the Commodore Vic-20), I remember my first programming language (BASIC), and I remember my first spam filtering software for user generated content (Akismet). But nine years ago, a new spam filtering service originally intended for Drupal called Mollom emerged and I quickly forgot about the other spam blocking software.

United States leads the way in database salaries, new research finds

8 years ago By Real Wire

Cambridge, UK, May 8, 2017 – The average annual salary of staff working with databases is currently $83,688, according to data released by Redgate Software following a wide-ranging survey.

The survey, carried out on Redgate community site SQLServerCentral, found that the United States tops the salary charts, with Database Administrators (DBAs) earning an average of $94,176 per year. Respondents in the UK earn less than half this – $44,483, lower than the average in continental Europe of $54,565.

Average full time salaries range from $200,000 (for someone with 19 years experience working in a bank in Italy) all the way down to $1,700 for a lead engineer in India at a technology provider.

Government Joins The Finance Sector At The Top Of The Cyber Attack List

8 years ago By Real Wire

London, UK – 8 May 2017 – New research reveals that cyberattacks on the government sector doubled in 2016, hiking to 14% from 7% of all cyber security attacks in 2015. Attacks on the finance sector also rose dramatically from just 3% in 2015 to 14% of all attacks in 2016. 

The manufacturing sector came in at third place at 13%, while the retail sector, which topped the list of all cybersecurity attacks on all sectors in 2015 moved down into fourth place (11%).

Retail Management software provider Vend demonstrates Star Micronics’ Digital Receipting Solution

8 years ago By Real Wire

High Wycombe, UK, 4 May 2017: Star Micronics, leading provider of point of sale hardware and proof of transaction technology, is working with world-leading retail management software provider Vend to bring the digital receipt revolution to its retailers at no extra cost. Vend will be demonstrating this solution on the Star Stand 310 at RBTE 2017 (8 - 9 May, Olympia, London).

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Earl Breon: 5 Don'ts to Become a Better Leader

8 years ago By Earl Breon

Being a good leader is tricky. There are a lot of things you need to do in order to successfully lead your team. There may be more things you shouldn’t do. Over the course of this post we will discuss five of those things you should not do and why they are killing your leadership and hurting your team.

You may be making one or more of these mistakes but you, and only you, can fix them. So, lets dive right in!

Balabit Introduces Shell Control Box 5 for Improved Incident Management

8 years ago By Real Wire

NEW YORK, NY - May 3rd, 2017, Balabit, a leading provider of contextual security technologies, today introduced Shell Control Box 5, a new version of the company's flagship product Shell Control Box (SCB) that enables enterprises to implement a stable foundation of their privileged access management strategy. SCB 5’s new features also expedite incident management, simplify privileged access management in large multi-platform environments, and deliver enhanced interoperability with third-party security management solutions to fully leverage customers’ existing security investments.

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