Information Technology

Insider threats can be challenging to deal with. Their prominence demands attention, but they can be hard to identify, and businesses don’t want to interrupt people’s work because of false positives. User and entity behavior analytics offers a solution.

What Is Behavior Analytics?

Behavioral analytics is a subset of machine learning focused on identifying how users or devices tend to act. In a security context, that means setting a baseline for normal behavior to detect suspicious activity.

As entry barriers to cybercriminality have lowered, the severity of phishing attacks has increased. The financial sector remains among the leading targets for bad actors, indicating that information technology (IT) teams will soon face a surge of threats. How can they protect themselves?

Regulatory compliance is an ever-evolving field for technology professionals. As cybercrime continues to grow, so do standards around acceptable data practices. This is a positive trend concerning cybersecurity and consumer privacy, but it can feel at odds with multicloud environments. Here are ways multicloud challenges regulations and strategies organizations can take to overcome compliance obstacles.

Quantum computing has the potential to change the data security landscape permanently. In as little as five years, it could make the most relied-upon encryption schemes ineffective — making businesses vulnerable to breaches.

Quantum Computing’s Impact on Data Security

Quantum computing can make some of the most common data security measures ineffective. While experts haven’t reached a consensus on how soon it will happen, many agree it will become an issue within the next few decades.

AI has proved invaluable to the business and financial technology sectors as an accurate, reliable tool. Naturally, it has made its way into tax preparation and auditing — and is reshaping long-held standards. Will it permanently transform business tax planning?

Last year at this time, we quietly introduced a new website called INFOTECH Pub. It was an effort to see if there was enough interest in a website focused on information technology much in the same way we've seen interest in socPub and CMS Report. Well, the short answer is no.

In the tech industry, we often see game-changing trends that redefine how we handle computing. Sometimes, these trends escalate to full-blown explosions of technology usage. It happened with virtual machines (VMs) and now it’s happening with SQL server containers.