by Jeffrey Henning | Jun 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
The goal of the hackers is not to destroy or permanently encrypt the data, but to secure fast payment of the ransom. That is the ransomware business model – quick cash. Historically, the amount of ransom demanded by the perpetrators has been relatively low in order to...
by Jeffrey Henning | Jun 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
55% of respondents from organizations that are not implementing any personalization yet, plan to use website or in-app personalization (web or mobile) within the next year. Of those already using personalization, 89% report an improvement or “lift”, and of those, 53%...
by Jeffrey Henning | Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
An independent 2016 Crypto-Ransomware Report, commissioned by Intermedia and executed by market-research consultancy Researchscape International, found that paying for restored access is more about losing productivity during downtime than it is the cost of the ransom....
by Jeffrey Henning | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
We’re big proponents of cloud-based IT, especially cloud-based email. So we were very interested to learn that a lot of AWS customers are still using on-premises Exchange servers. To understand why, we asked Researchscape to conduct a survey. Read more at...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Researchscape surveyed 275 IT experts in the month of January and the results are surprising… Over half of those surveyed, did not identify ransomware as a top security threat. Yet, 65% of those surveyed reported having a moderate to extreme concern regarding...
by Jeffrey Henning | Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
A brand-new survey shows enterprises are increasingly using open source Apache Kafka technology for real-time, streaming Big Data analytics. The study was published today during the first-ever Kafka Summit by Confluent Inc. Read more at Enterprise Systems...
