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This article was contributed by Shaun McBrearty, cofounder of Vaultree . Cybercrime is rampant, and each year it seems to be getting worse. 2020 was considered a banner year for cybercrime, and then 2021 set a new high. Despite heightened security efforts, data breaches continue to occur and they are becoming more e…

Let the  OSS Enterprise newsletter  guide your open source journey!   Sign up here . Spending on  cloud infrastructure  is continuing along an upwards trajectory, growing  34% year-on-year in Q4 2021  to $53.5 billion globally. The benefits of the public cloud are clear, insofar as they enable companies of any size …

Twenty years ago,  quantum computing  was predicted to be the next big thing in IT. Although it’s not as widespread yet as was predicted, billions of dollars are  invested in quantum computing’s potential  each year.  Quantum computing applies the principles of quantum mechanics to perform calculations. It uses suba…

If multifactor authentication (MFA) is one of our best hopes for making a dent in cybercrime, it could be awhile before everyone’s actually using it. Despite the proven effectiveness of requiring multiple forms of authentication at log-in,  recent stats  from Microsoft show that just 22% of accounts authenticated thro…

Email-based phishing attacks became a lot more successful in 2021 — and so did ransomware attacks, in terms of getting victims to pay the ransom demand, according to new stats from email security vendor Proofpoint. The vendor’s new  report  — the 2022 State of the Phish — provides insights into what’s been happening…

Let the  OSS Enterprise newsletter  guide your open source journey!   Sign up here . Usage of  GraphQL , a query language that’s generally leveraged to load data from a server to a client, is exploding. A 2019 survey found that 62.5% of developers want to learn GraphQL. The technology now increasingly backs prominen…