Research & Reports
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The Bad Guys Just Keep Getting Better
Read moreLast year, the private sector spent more than 75 billion dollars on security software. But have systems and data become any safer?
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Cloud Washing or Software as a Service? It’s all Relative
Read moreEven if it has cloud written all over it, software is only seldom truly provided as a service. This is the core finding of a recent study by PwC.
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Constant availability raising employee stress levels
Read moreThe excitement of having a chic new company smartphone can quickly turn sour, when you realize that you will have to pay for it with your constant availability.
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Crypto trojans: waves of attack are on the increase
Read moreAbout one third of all businesses has experienced ransomware attacks in the last six months. No virus protection software can offer 100% protection from such attacks. Nevertheless, security can be boosted substantially with the fourfold virus scan from Retarus E-Mail Security Services.
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BITKOM study: Fax more popular than social networks
Read moreAccording to a recent survey by the German IT industry association BITKOM, fax is in greater demand than ever before. While it remains true that E-Mail and telephony are by far the most popular means of communication at companies and therefore indispensable, eight out of ten companies surveyed use fax for internal or external communication.…
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Experton study: 25 percent lower costs with managed cloud solutions
Read moreThe analysts at the IT consultancy Experton Group have investigated opportunities for cost optimization through managed cloud services in a new study. The result: When compared with running an in-house IT infrastructure, companies can achieve savings of 25% on average in this way.
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Experton Security Vendor Benchmark 2016: Experton Group evaluates IT security market
Read moreBe it due to increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, high cost pressure or strict legal guidelines such as the EU Data Protection Regulation or the new German IT Security Act – IT security stands alongside cloud computing, big data, social business and mobile enterprise as one of the topics to which the ITC is currently paying most…
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Banks in flux: Digital transformation requires new sales channels
Read moreBanks and finance companies increasingly have to face the challenges of digital transformation. The way in which clients communicate with their banks has undergone a radical change. The institutes are taking up the trend and are in the process of becoming multichannel banks.