Can Women Win?
According to Monster’s Salary Index Survey 2019 released a year back, women in India earn 19% less than men. The gap was 20% a year before. In a 2018 study, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce came with a similar number. It said for every one dollar earned by men, women earned 81 cents—that is the same as what India had, albeit a year later. The... By ITNEXT
Chinese firms control local public cloud market; AWS & Microsoft leads the rest of APAC: SRG
Leading six public cloud providers in China are all local companies, while Amazon and Microsoft continue to lead in the rest of the APAC region, according to new Q4 data from Synergy Research Group. Even in Japan, which has a strong base of local technology companies, Amazon and Microsoft are the top two public cloud providers. China is by far the largest country market in the region, which helps... By CIO&Leader
COVID-19 related phishing attacks on the rise: Study
As much of the world grapples with the new coronavirus, COVID-19, and how to handle it, attackers are taking advantage of the widespread discussion of COVID-19 in emails and across the web. There has been a steady increase in the number of coronavirus COVID-19-related email attacks since January, but they have observed a recent spike in this type of attack, up 667% since the end of February,... By CIO&Leader
Preserving Business Continuity during Coronavirus Pandemic
As Coronavirus outbreaks continue to spread worldwide, consumers and businesses are turning to the internet for their personal and business needs. In our heavily digital world, this is a logical next step – after all, we can work from home and have everything from groceries to medicines delivered to our doorsteps. Indeed, we’re seeing a sharp increase in online commerce. In China, for example,... By Nikhil Taneja
Global spend on data center hardware & software rises in 2019: SRG
The worldwide spend on data center hardware and software reached USD 152 billion in 2019, up 2% from 2018, according to Synergy Research Group. Within that, spending on public cloud data center hardware and software grew by 7%, while spending on traditional data center and private cloud fell by 1%. Public cloud data centers now account for 37% of the total, their share of spending having grown... By CIO&Leader
Strategies for navigating challenging times
The one thing that all CSOs have in common is that they are risk owners. No matter the situation, even during times of extreme business transition and the need to maintain operational continuity, they are all responsible for assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data 24x7x365. Their job is to keep their heads during a crisis and to make sure that even while rapidly... By Rajesh Maurya
APeJC ICT spending growth to drop in 2020 due to COVID-19 impact: IDC
COVID-19 pandemic continues to hamper economic activities around the globe impacting businesses and industries at nearly every level, and IT markets will not be spared. In January 2020, IDC originally forecasted Asia/Pacific excluding Japan and China (APEJC) IT Spending to grow by over 5.2% (in constant currency) this year due to the expected boost in Hardware, Software, and Services spending on... By CIO&Leader
5 ways to keep your data safe while working from home: IEEE experts
As more and more organizations implement company-wide work from home policies as a way to protect the health of employees in the wake of COVID-19, they are also considering how to continue business as usual under a whole new networking situation. Many employees beginning a remote work situation for the first time may not be up to date on how to keep their devices safe, confidential information... By CIO&Leader
Organizations struggle with security post digital transformation: Study
Organizations reached a global cloud tipping point causing them to struggle with security challenges of digital transformation (DX), according to a Thales study. Today, half (50%) of all corporate data is stored in the cloud and nearly half (48%) of that data is considered sensitive. With multi-cloud usage becoming the new normal for companies, all respondents said at least some of the sensitive... By CIO&Leader
Your #1 Cloud Threat - Excessive Permissions
Migrating workloads to public cloud environment opens up organizations to a slate of new, cloud-native attack vectors which did not exist in the world of premise-based data centers. In this new environment, workload security is defined by which users have access to your cloud environment, and what permissions they have. As a result, protecting against excessive permissions, and quickly responding... By Nikhil Taneja
COVID-19 Effect: Majority of organizations have encouraged or required employees to work from home
88% of organizations have encouraged or required employees to work from home, regardless of whether or not they showed coronavirus-related symptoms, according to Gartner. Nearly all organizations (97%) have canceled work-related travel, more than an 80% increase since March 3. “As the COVID-19 crisis disrupts organizations across the globe, HR leaders must respond quickly and... By CIO&Leader