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 Giacom is partnering with usecure, a security awareness platform, to offer its customers access to Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing resources to help mitigate end-user cyber risk and drive secure user behaviour. With many businesses still working from home, it’s crucial for companies to ensure they continuously educate their …

2021 will mark a tipping point when consumers will begin to fully-understand and revolt against the privacy concerns associated with smart and connected devices, says WatchGuard Technologies. Security analysts at WatchGuard believe that users will start to push back against vendors of IoT devices that collect personal data and will …

The new ASUS series of graphics cards that debuts with the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU includes five new models: ROG Strix, TUF Gaming, ASUS Dual, ASUS Dual MINI and ASUS KO GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. These new graphics cards bring buffed-up cooling, PCBs and power designs to …

Metadata management specialist, Solidatus, is supporting the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the City of London Corporation with the Digital Sandbox Pilot, coinciding with its recent opening to banks and regulators. Solidatus is providing its modelling software for pilot participants to view the structure of synthetic data within the sandbox …

Exabeam has appointed technology industry veteran and former Splunk marketing leader Sherry Lowe as chief marketing officer (CMO). Lowe will be responsible for leading the global marketing strategy and will report directly to Ralph Pisani, president, Exabeam. Throughout Lowe’s 20-year career in the technology industry, she has built strategic marketing …

The recent boom in telemedicine is here to stay according to TrueProfile.io, which claims to have seen a 400% increase in telemedicine enquiries from all over the world during the last quarter alone. Virtual health appointments, otherwise known as telemedicine, has seen a dramatic increase as a result of the COVID-19 …

Ivanti, Inc. has acquired MobileIron, a provider of mobile-centric unified endpoint management solutions, and Pulse Secure LLC, a provider of secure access and mobile security solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and TA Associates. “We are excited to welcome the MobileIron and Pulse Secure teams into the Ivanti family,” …

In these exceptionally difficult circumstances, Krome has demonstrated its strong business resilience and has managed to maintain impressive growth figures.  Following its eleventh year of trading, and despite the challenges presented by COVID-19 throughout 2020, Technology Consultancy Krome Technologies today announces a strong set of financial results and operational performance …

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Vikki Durden, Head of Operations at UK IT Service investigates the benefits of outsourcing work in the wake of COVID-19. The Coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on UK businesses. The resulting economic shutdown means many businesses are operating in the red, while many others are on the brink of …

Giacom’s, CTO, Steve Law explains how the channel can support organisations when making the transition to the future hybrid workplace in a seamless and secure way. After many months of changing lockdown rules where companies have had to implement remote and hybrid working policies accordingly, businesses are starting to look …

Pro AV specialist, Kramer is entering the market in the GCC countries. Headquartered in Israel, the company has signed a new distribution agreement with Abcom Distribution LLC, who will represent Kramer exclusively in the UAE. This deal follows the Israel-United Arab Emirates normalisation agreement, which was signed in September 2020. …