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Insurtech Report Points to Digital Transformation
By Chris Ehrlich TYSONS, VA. — An insurtech study is offering insight into consumers’ digital expectations of insurance companies. The study is part of the 2020 “DXC Insurance Survey Report: The Voice of the U.S. Consumer.” U.S. consumers were surveyed on the insurance industry and how they interact with insurers. The study highlights how consumer…
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Cloud First: Accenture’s $3B Commitment to the Cloud
By Chris Ehrlich NEW YORK — At any moment, 70,000 global employees are working on the cloud in Accenture’s Cloud First group. Accenture is investing $3 billion over three years in the multi-service group, starting last fall, to help clients across all industries become cloud-first businesses and accelerate their digital transformation. Accenture’s Cloud First group…
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AT&T Launches SASE Cybersecurity Solution
By Chris Ehrlich DALLAS — AT&T is partnering with Fortinet on a new secure access service edge (SASE) cybersecurity offering for enterprises. AT&T’s SASE with Fortinet expands AT&T’s managed security services provider (MSSP) portfolio and is being described as a mix of technology, processes and people. The offering is one of the first globally managed…
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Top 5 CIO Priorities
By Chris Ehrlich SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thousands of chief information officers (CIOs) and IT decision makers across the world recently shared their priorities in a Cisco survey. The survey is part of the report “Accelerating Digital Agility” by Cisco that was released in March. Over the last year, Cisco said IT leaders have been…
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Comcast and Cisco Meraki Create Enterprise-Grade VPN
If they didn’t have a handle on what a virtual private network (VPN) was prior to 2020, millions of workers around the global were intimately familiar with the technology by year’s end. VPN solutions made it possible for enterprises to pick up the ball and keep running, despite global shutdowns in the wake of the…
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Survey Shows Security Becoming Major MSP Focus
Over the course of the last two years, the security reputation of managed service providers (MSPs) has taken a hit in the wake of several high-profile breaches. Cybercriminals have determined the most efficient way to compromise multiple IT environments at once is to target the MSP that serves multiple customers. Those attacks, known as buffalo…
