Industries

For organizations, large and small, the use of third-party vendors in a variety of functions is a recurring part of their operations. And like malicious insiders, cyber criminals, hactivists, and nation-states, the cyber risks associated with third-party vendors should receive similar attention across all stages of cyber risk management: identifica...

With our recently conducted 2018 Cloud User Survey, some patterns are beginning to emerge. Some workloads initially deployed in the public cloud are now being moved back into a premises data center, in a trend known as “repatriation.” And for the first time, we are seeing a decline in the number of businesses that use cloud Infrastructure as a ...

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) analyst team has completed its annual assessment of both the global communications service provider (CSP) monetization market and the global CSP financial assurance market. The monetization market includes the key business management functions of: billing mediation, poli...

Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 survey provided insights into the SD-WAN market as it was navigating through the early adopter stage. In the last two years, enterprise decision makers have equipped themselves with a much better understanding of the benefits that SD-WAN brings to enterprise WANs. SD-WAN vendors and managed SD-WAN providers alike report wi...

Over the past two years, the always-on nature of today’s business markets, and the lack of tolerance for application downtime, has made cloud even more important for businesses seeking to increase their business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. As the enterprise become less able to accept the negative impacts on productivity that do...

As of mid-2018, attackers showed that they have no intentions of slowing their relentless development of new attack techniques, as evidenced by a re-discovered tactic of abusing open source protocols to create diffraction attacks that bypass static detection rules. This is a known but rare tactic that challenges traditional detection methods, and d...

A fascinating aspect of the cloud era is the expanding options for organizations to move from being owners to renters of IT capabilities. From a security perspective, decreasing ownership also transfers blocks of responsibility from cloud customers to the cloud services provider. This, in essence, is the shifting attribute of the cloud shared respo...

Spreadsheets are ubiquitous and largely a default tool for data analysis; yet, they are also a trap and one which will increasingly limit the ability of companies to compete effectively. Yes, they provide a useful way to visualize data, but their limitations, especially in an age of big data, can seriously compromise a company’s ability to extrac...

Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services, as defined in this study, are business internet services that include the following features: • Business-grade, dedicated internet connections that offer symmetrical upload and download speeds • Service level agreements from providers that ensure availability and performance guarantees (latency, jitter...