by Gitanjali Maria and Zach Capers | Oct 16, 2019 | Insights, Security, Trends
GetApp’s 2019 cybersecurity statistics identify numerous insights into the tools and practices that businesses use—or don’t use—to shape their IT security posture.
We recently conducted a comprehensive data security survey to better understand how businesses in the U.S. are contending with various facets of IT security such as the use of security software, deployment of data classification, preparation for privacy regulations, and the administration of employee security training. The following are some of the most interesting cybersecurity statistics we pulled from the results.
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by Victoria Wilson | Oct 8, 2019 | Insights, Trends
Technology is all around us and the pressure to upgrade is real. What technology is worth the ROI and what is over-hyped? Sometimes a good indicator is looking at what your peers are doing.
GetApp conducted a survey of 228 individuals in field service-related businesses that provide services out in the field to gauge where they stand on new technology adoption.
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by Victoria Wilson | Oct 8, 2019 | Insights, Trends
Sherlock Holmes put it best: “Data! Data! Data! […] I can’t make bricks without clay.” We all have the tendency of coming to conclusions without sufficient facts to support them.
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by Chris Warnock | Oct 4, 2019 | Insights, Trends
The higher up in a company you are, the more favorably you view that company. This represents a single, tiny example of bias—or prejudice in favor of or against something. However, it isn’t just upper management that is biased. On some level, everyone is biased. You might be aware of your own bias, at times reckoning with thoughts or decision making that isn’t entirely objective or reasonable.
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by Zach Capers | Sep 27, 2019 | Insights, Trends
In the past, phishing attacks were typo-riddled emails blasted out to a mass audience, commonly offering a reward for helping a deposed monarch get his money out of the country. Conversely, today’s spear phishing emails are personalized, professionally written, and appear to come from organizations that you do business with.
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by Zach Capers | Sep 17, 2019 | Insights, Trends
On Aug. 29, Apple made headlines by announcing its big fall event, at which the hotly anticipated iPhone 11 was expected to be announced.
Later that evening, Google’s Project Zero research team posted an explosive report revealing it had found a severe glitch in the iPhone’s operating system. Google researchers detailed five distinct attack chains and described how countless Apple devices had been exposed to malware simply by visiting hacked websites.
The press pounced on the report.
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by Victoria Wilson | Aug 30, 2019 | Insights, Trends
4K movies. Seamless VR. Autonomous vehicles. They’re all in our future thanks to 5G wireless technology. Given the novelty of these innovations, it’s no surprise that searches for “5G” have more than doubled in the last year.
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by Lauren Maffeo | Aug 30, 2019 | Insights, Trends
Earlier this summer, I mentored a college student doing her first data science internship. She was thrilled to join a large government agency and put her classroom knowledge to work. But when I asked over coffee how it was going, she glumly admitted that it wasn’t what she hoped for.
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by Zach Capers | Aug 27, 2019 | Insights, Trends
By nearly any measure, $5 billion is a lot of money.
That is unless the measure is Facebook’s staggering $55.8 billion in revenue for 2018.
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by Lauren Maffeo | Aug 25, 2019 | Trends
Six in 10 U.S. employees didn’t negotiate their salaries during their last job offers and lost out on earning $7,500 more per year. When staffing firm Robert Half surveyed more than 2,700 workers across 27 major U.S. cities, a mere 39 percent said that they negotiated their last job offer’s salary. Subsequent research from Glassdoor found that the average U.S. employee could be earning 13.3 percent more per year than their current base salary if they had negotiated. (more…)