InsightBrief

07/03/2023

Investors, customers, and regulators are urging technology companies to reduce their carbon footprint and adopt more sustainable practices.

For certain tech hardware companies, enhancing the circularity of their products by repairing, reusing, and recycling materials offers a way to create additional value and achieve their sustainability objectives.

However, most of these plans lack clearly defined targets.

Nearly two-thirds of technology companies don’t have specific circularity goals.

Read more on how reselling and recycling products can offer tech hardware providers a competitive advantage - http://bit.ly/3mA7DBq by Bain & Company

02/03/2023

In the age of digital transformation and cloud computing, protecting an organization is harder than ever.

Evolving threats, agile software development, and hybrid computing make security policy consistency difficult.

Cloud security services are now crucial for application and data center protection. They reduce costs, provide scalability, and offer frictionless security for innovation.

Consider these nine capabilities when evaluating cloud security services 👉 http://bit.ly/3KJAv46 by Radware

21/02/2023

The Business Value of Identity

👉 Research HQ’s Key Takeaways:
• Businesses are often hesitant to invest in Identity solutions, failing to understand the high-costs and man-hours associated with running and maintaining legacy in-house Identity and Access Management (IAM).

• Failure to invest in modern, sophisticated and secure identity solutions exposes organisations to regulatory fines and the costs associated with data breaches.

• Modern IAM solutions open the door for greater innovation through a centralised single source of truth on user identities and help foster streamlined user experiences.

Read more on how IAM is either making your business money or draining resources by Auth0 - http://bit.ly/3Z28RTC

14/02/2023

It is projected that the annual amount of e-waste will exceed 120 million metric tons by 2050, which is more than double the current amount.

The adoption of environmentally sustainable IT disposal practices by organisations today can play a crucial role in determining the impact of e-waste on the environment and the potential benefits they may reap for their business.

Organisations can benefit the environment and unlock the immense business value of e-waste by changing their approach to IT disposal and entering out-of-use hardware into the circular economy.

Data erasure plays a dual role in security and second-hand life and is essential in complying with data protection and privacy regulations.

Read more on CSR & Data Erasure: A Greener Future for IT Asset Disposal - http://bit.ly/3E8QVyN by Blancco Technology Group

The World Economic Forum predicts the amount of e-waste will more than double by 2050 to 120 million metric tons annually. Organizations that put in place

07/02/2023

Ensure a successful Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deal by putting identity and access management (IAM) at the center of your strategy. Avoid the scalability nightmares and streamline post-merger integration with a modern IAM solution.

• M&A deals often fall apart due to disarray in one company's operations.

• Extensible and centralized IAM allows administrators to manage disparate applications from a single location, ensuring that IAM integration doesn’t slow down the M&A process.

• Modern IAM platforms provide frictionless access across multiple brands, ensuring that customer experience doesn’t suffer during the M&A process.

• Outsourcing IAM to a trusted IAM platform can prove a company’s commitment to data privacy and security, which are increasingly important to potential M&A partners.

Read more 👉 http://bit.ly/3ACElUw

If you’re looking to put together a successful M&A deal, you need to prove from the outset that you can integrate your operations with a new partner

01/02/2023

Threat modeling is a crucial aspect of cloud security that helps organizations identify, prioritize and mitigate potential security threats in the cloud.

A comprehensive threat model should outline the built-in risk factors, threat agents, attack roadmaps, and business impact assessments to help organizations develop an effective security strategy.

Here are the best steps:

1. Choose the right team for your cloud security

2. Understand the boundaries of the system

3. Consider risk factors to cloud security

4. Execute a remediation plan

5. Audit and monitor workloads

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3P3rCBl by IBM Security

Today’s cloud security requires a new way of looking at threat models. Making a threat model can support your security teams before problems start. It helps

25/01/2023

Protecting sensitive consumer information should be a top priority for organisations. However, this becomes increasingly challenging when dealing with subsidiaries, partners, and third-party contractors.

With cloud identity and access management (cloud IAM), organisations can authenticate users wherever they are, at any time, and secure access to resources across clouds, SaaS, on-premises, and APIs.

Insurers can use IAM solutions to increase speed, agility, and efficiency while providing a complete solution for customers, employees, and partners.

Read more about Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Insurance Companies - http://bit.ly/3N5q6h8 by Ping Identity

17/01/2023

Companies are facing new challenges and opportunities in managing e-waste in today's technology-driven world.

By implementing solutions such as revising internal policies, overseeing vendors, and redesigning products, companies can set themselves apart and gain a competitive edge by addressing the e-waste issue.

Here are some ideas to get started:
👉 Quantify the e-waste stream and related expenses.

This includes determining the amount and types of e-waste generated and the costs incurred in managing these waste streams.

👉 Understand how e-waste is handled and processed to end-of-life.

As electronics contain valuable components that can be reused or recycled, the secondary market for e-waste is crucial.

Therefore, ensure transparency in the end-of-life management of electronics to guarantee that e-waste is being handled and recycled responsibly without creating additional hazards for workers or the environment.

👉 Assess options for circularity. In the shift from linear to circular economy, technology companies are exploring ways to redesign products to enable the recovery of valuable components for reuse in future products.

Assess the life cycle of products, measure the emissions related to e-waste recycling practices, and investigate how adjustments to vendors or business operations can decrease the overall environmental impact.

👉 Investigate the role of e-waste management in achieving your company's sustainability objectives.

Determine whether e-waste is a significant concern for your organization.

Fully comprehend the challenges and opportunities that can significantly impact the attainment of corporate goals such as zero-waste, carbon neutral, and climate change.

👀 Read more about E-waste: Turning a challenge into business advantage - http://bit.ly/3ZJsalO

11/01/2023

Almost everyone has a few obsolete or broken electronics in their drawers.

The problem of e-waste (electronic waste) is on the rise and it's important that we all do our part to address it.

From old televisions to mobile phones, laptops to children's toys, these discarded electronics contain valuable non-renewable resources such as gold, silver, copper, platinum, aluminum, and cobalt.

When not disposed of properly, toxic substances like lead and mercury can leach into the soil and water, contaminating our environment.

Furthermore, existing e-waste recycling solutions are often slow and inefficient, and may export the problem to countries with inadequate labour laws and safety regulations.

Take these four steps to give them a new lease on life and keep as much as possible out of landfill:

1. Postpone upgrading for as long as you can.

2. Find opportunities for reuse.

3. Try returning the item to the manufacturer.

4. Take them to a dedicated e-waste recycling facility.

What steps are you going to take this year to reduce the environmental impact of your e-waste?

Read more on what is e-waste and what can we do about it 👉 https://bit.ly/3vSB4Qz

Prof Richard Herrington, Head of Earth Sciences at the Museum, shares some tips for how to dispose of unwanted electronics and tells us about an innovative

03/01/2023

In a world where environmental sustainability is only increasing in importance, the ability to reuse IT equipment — instead of destroying or even recycling it — plays a critical role in companies’ sustainability strategies.

This is where IT asset disposition (ITAD) comes in: where asset life spans are extended by redeploying them for alternate uses.

According to Market Research Future, the global ITAD market is anticipated to reach $27Bn at a 12% compound annual growth rate by 2025.

Find out why IT asset disposition is critical to sustainability goals 👉 https://bit.ly/3Ps1GRh by Mission Critical Magazine

According to the World Economic Forum, e-waste is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, with about 50 million tons of electronic and electrical

27/12/2022

We’re so close to 2023. Private citizens can now go to outer space. We have self-driving cars and self-driving vacuums. Drones can deliver our dinner. We do retinal scans at the airport.

It’s almost like we’re living in a sci-fi movie. And yet, when it comes to protecting our personal data, the most popular password of 2021 was, wait for it… ‘123456’. Only to be surpassed this year by guess what ― ‘password’. 🤦‍♂️

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is estimated to prevent 99.9% of account takeover incidents, but use of MFA isn’t universal.

A small number of organisations continue to support forms of basic authentication that can’t be protected by MFA, leaving them inherently more vulnerable.

Learn more about how organisations and people work today—exploring workforces and customers, and the applications and services they use to be productive - https://bit.ly/3jfvIbK by Okta

20/12/2022

We’re creating a tsunami of e-waste. The material value of our spent devices amounts to $62.5Bn globally.

This is three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines.

More than 120 countries have an annual GDP lower than the value of our growing pile of global e-waste.

Read more on how a circular approach can turn e-waste into a golden opportunity - https://bit.ly/3VUQcIz by World Economic Forum