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Summer safety is usually all about life jackets, pool floaties, outfitting your boat with a carbon monoxide detector and slathering on plenty of SPF. I have one more thing to add to your list this summer: Security to protect your people, your brand and your data. In 2020, the business world struggled with the abrupt shift to remote work. Corners were cut. Compromises were made. Business leaders, IT staff and employees alike did the best they could with what they had.

I recently had the pleasure to talk with Jesse Miller from SouthStar Bank about some amazing IT results they were delivering. Southstar Bank, headquartered in Moulton, Texas — about midway between San Antonio and Houston — is a community bank specializing in residential mortgage, real estate and construction lending, operating 15 full-service branches in rural and urban communities across the Central Texas region.

Providing flexible solutions to your users creates a more co-operative and engaging environment where people can choose how, and where they interact with your services. That’s why over the past year we’ve been working on adding more choices when it comes to engaging with Ivanti Service Desk, and our latest Microsoft Teams App opens up an entire new channel for communication.

Sunblock: Check. Life vest: Check. Zero trust security: Wait, what? Summer gives us all a little breathing room and a chance to relax. This summer, perhaps more than any other in our lifetimes, we’re all looking forward to loosening up. As we get a hint of normalcy, or at least what “normal” is going to look like now that we’re in the Everywhere Workplace, many people are letting their guards down. We want folks to relax. We really do.

When it comes to running a Human Resources (HR) department successfully, it’s a balancing act of maximizing budget and productivity. HR is a core part of the enterprise, but it is often up against flat or shrinking budgets. A lot of time gets invested into searching for ways to eliminate full-time employee hours spent on tedious manual tasks and re-shift its staff’s focus to driving more strategic initiatives.

Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly savvy and ransomware attacks have soared over the last decade. A recent PwC UK Cyber Threat Intelligence report revealed a spike in cybersecurity incidents which have significantly affected many organisations that are already dealing with challenges caused by the pandemic.

In my introduction to this blog series, I talked about why Unified Endpoint Manager (UEM) is more relevant than ever before. While reading this blog put your own experiences into perspective with how you and your company were forced to work during COVID-19.

In my introduction to this blog series, I talked about why Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) is more relevant than ever before. While reading this blog put your own experiences into perspective with how you and your company were forced to work during COVID-19.

Take a moment if you will. Imagine your typical day at the warehouse. Warehouse workers are buzzing about. Forklifts are driving back and forth down the aisles. Your workers are staying productive, scanning and picking boxes, one after the other. They’ve got their rugged devices and scanners, helping them buzz away, busy as can be.

Did you hear about the latest data breach caused by a stolen password? Technically, it was a user account security token used by the malicious cyber threat actors to gain initial access into the company’s chat workspace. Once on the IT chat channel, the threat actors impersonated an employee and then used a simple social engineering tactic to trick an IT support member into providing them with a long-lived login access token onto the corporate network.