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Current Malpractice Handicaps Social Selling’s Potential

Forrester IT

We first published research on social selling in 2016, and B2B sellers continue to flock to various networks to interact with their customers and prospects. Social provides the opportunity for authentic connections, mutually beneficial professional relationships, and positive business outcomes for both buyers and sellers.

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Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

GeekWire

Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016. The new verified identity service is a notable integration between the business social network and the company’s Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management group, which has been led by former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell since late 2021.

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Microsoft adds resiliency, redundancy, security to Windows Server 2019

Network World

With Windows Server 2019, Microsoft is adding resiliency and redundancy enhancements to the Shielded Virtual Machines security controls it introduced with Windows Server 2016. Get daily insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]. Host key attestation.

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Ransomware Exponentially Increasing as IoT Provides Physical Targeting Opportunities

CTOvision

million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. Other researchers estimated economic payoff to criminals at $1 billion in 2016. Ransomware in late 2016 interrupted San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) payment machines and in Jan 2017 compromised the electronic key system of an Austrian hotel.

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Zero Trust Security for NIS2 compliance: What you need to know

CIO Business Intelligence

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] Zero Trust network security offers cybersecurity benefits vs. traditional perimeter-based network security models.

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The FIDO Alliance provides strong authentication for online services  

Network World

For many security professionals, passwords are the scourge of the authentication world, and their death can't come soon enough. According to the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 63% of confirmed data breaches involve the use of weak, default or stolen passwords. Click here to subscribe.

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US and Europe will block some Russian banks from SWIFT

The Verge

The organization’s eponymous payments network does not actually exchange money but is used to authenticate payment instructions between banks. used to authenticate payment instructions between banks. Iranian banks were reconnected to SWIFT in 2016. billion to $52 billion.

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