Since human trafficking today has become a $150-billion major enterprise, why not fight one big business with another? This is the strategy that the nonprofit Polaris Project has put in place to combat human trafficking by serving victims with a national hotline, a massive data set, and enlisting the support of large corporations to be ...

When Cohesity Inc. announced that it secured a new $250 million round of funding last year, it was not so much the amount of money that attracted notice as the major names involved. Noted investors SoftBank Vision Fund, Morgan Stanley and Sequoia Capital Operations LLC generated attention along with funding from Cisco Investments and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...

Over the past 12 years, more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking in the U.S. have been reported to a hotline that receives an average of 150 calls per day. That’s one of many statistics that drives the mission of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, an organization dedicated to eradicating child abduction, ...

Most companies wait until a new product or project is completed before writing a press release to announce it. At Amazon.com Inc., the press release gets written before work even starts. It’s a process the company calls “working backwards,” where a product manager will write an internal-only press release to announce the finished result. The ...

Cybersecurity threats have evolved from “smash, grab and run” to “enter, turn off all alarms, hide in the basement, and stay awhile.” That’s one of the conclusions that can be drawn from Fortinet’s Inc.’s latest “Threat Landscape Report,” a quarterly temperature reading produced by FortiGuard Labs of the most recent global cybersecurity threat activity. The ...

The next time a McDonald’s Corp. customer is asked if they want fries with their order, the questioner may not be a real person. The fast-food giant has been testing voice-recognition software at one of its locations in Chicago. And those fries may soon be robot-cooked as well. McDonald’s is piloting the use of robots ...

The first sign of cyber trouble for AutoNation Inc., a major automotive retailer, occurred when the firm encountered a small breach of a third-party company that was handling its customer information. That prompted the company to hire its first chief information security officer. What the new CISO found when he came on board was more ...

When Open Systems AG was founded in 1990, the company provided managed security services. As its executives saw the rise of a software-defined approach to managing wide area networks play a bigger role in connecting enterprise users to applications, the company pivoted in 2012 to capitalize on offering secure SD-WAN globally. It turned out to ...

It all started with a locker. Darktrace was working with an amusement park that had installed smart lockers equipped with phone-activated access. Hackers, using either a remote exploit or an onsite tool to attack one storage bin, penetrated company business systems and a significant data breach ensued. Welcome to the new and dangerous world of the ...

The past year has been filled with firsts for Michael Conlin, chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Defense. He was named the Pentagon’s first CDO in August 2018, giving him an opportunity to manage data for the nation’s largest government organization. It was the first time Conlin (pictured) worked for a federal agency, one that ...