With ransomware threats on the rise and greater risk for a large user community now transacting business from home, World Backup Day on March 31 was a timely reminder that it’s better to be safe than sorry. HYCU Inc., the multicloud provider of backup and disaster recovery services, announced on March 31 that it would make ...

For the chief executive officer of HackerOne Inc., running a company from home without a central office is nothing new. He has been doing it since his first day at the helm of MySQL AB in 2001. One day, Marten Mickos (pictured), suggested to one of MySQL’s co-founders that the company should at least open ...

She stole a CNN reporter’s hotel points while live on the air. She has hacked into the security system of a large financial services company through a simple phone call while sitting onstage at a hackers’ convention thousands of miles away. But if anyone happens to meet Rachel Tobac (pictured), don’t run. She has some ...

As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, certain segments of the tech world have suddenly become hot properties. One of these is the video conferencing space where usage of online collaboration platforms, such as Zoom Inc., Skype Inc. and Google Hangouts, are zooming. Zoom recently reported that the number of daily active users for ...

VMware Inc.’s major announcement in March that it would become an enabler of cloud migration and multicloud management is actually a story about Goldilocks and the three bears. The lead analogy in this saga was provided by Craig McLuckie, co-founder of Kubernetes and vice president of research and development for VMware, when he declared last ...

One of the byproducts of the coronavirus pandemic is that a number of important events, understandably, get overlooked. The release in mid-March of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission report on making sweeping changes to guide U.S. cybersecurity policy is one of those events. The congressionally authorized commission was chartered to make recommendations for how the federal ...

As people around the world compile information on the spread of coronavirus, real-time data takes on special meaning. Snowflake Inc. has created built-in optimizations for Starschema Ltd., a data company that has been providing information for users to track the movement of the virus around the globe. That information is in turn continually updated and reported ...

Doctors are generally more concerned about patients than petabytes, which is why Cerner Corp. provides the medical community with health information-technology solutions. The goal is to make the systems experience for health practitioners as seamless as possible by leveraging tools that can spot potential network problems before they impact the user. “It’s important for an entire ...

Many online users may not realize it, but when a web page is opened on a mobile or desktop device and an advertisement appears, it’s the result of a fast-paced, sophisticated auction process that happens quicker than the blink of an eye. One of the leading auction firms facilitating that process is The Trade Desk, ...

While data privacy has gotten the attention of legislators in recent years, enforcement of new laws seemed to lag. From the General Data Protection Regulation to the California Consumer Privacy Act, regulatory bodies have certainly been taking action against any irresponsible use of consumer data. Yet while the enforcement of those laws may not have been widely felt ...