In December 2020, we blogged about security issues in Go’s encoding/xml with critical impact on several Go-based SAML implementations. Coordinating the disclosure around those issues was no small feat; we spent months emailing the Go security team, reviewing code, testing and retesting exploits, coming up with workarounds, implementing a validation library, and finally reaching out to SAML library maintainers and 20 different companies downstream.

It’s easy to say that remote work is a piece of cake. After all, who doesn’t want to have the flexibility that comes with working from home? This is how most people who’ve never tried remote work think about it. In reality, remote work comes with its challenges. As a person, who’s been working from home most of my life, I had to overcome them as well. Although, it was less stressful since I wasn’t forced to work remotely by the global pandemic.

Customer support staffing is like a never-ending game of Jenga. If you’ve got a team of customer support reps who are all aligned on how best to help your customers and have experience doing just that, you’ve got an excellent foundation for resolving customer queries. But if you take out just a few of those reps – if they leave, get promoted, or are out sick for an extended period – then your support provision suddenly looks much less stable.

As businesses emerge from a pandemic year, cybersecurity concerns are necessarily top of mind . Companies face expansive cybersecurity threats on many fronts, prompting 75 percent of business leaders to view cybersecurity as integral to their organization’s COVID-19 recovery. They undoubtedly face an uphill battle. Surging ransomware attacks and increasingly deceptive phishing scams are attracting national attention, while more than 500,000 cybersecurity jobs remain unfilled in the US alone.

A VPN, allows remote employees to create a secure traffic connection to the corporate network. These connections essentially tunnel from a computer or mobile device through a VPN server, often through the public Internet. VPN technology has been around since the mid-1990s, but its usage is now going mainstream due to Covid. As Covid accelerates, it means new monitoring challenges for IT amid a high VPN adoption.

How to create an environment that encourages people to join, participate, and learn.

Agility was a buzzword even before 2020, particularly in fast-moving industries where changing trends and emerging technologies meant businesses had to constantly stay on their toes. But last year, businesses of all types were forced to restructure business plans and adapt to a changed world nearly overnight. Suddenly, the value of agility became more obvious than ever. But agility isn’t just something you need during extraordinary circumstances like a global pandemic.

Enterprises need to monitor for productivity and adjust quickly to avoid misusing their time. Start improving the productivity of your enterprise with these 6 productivity hacks!

Outsourcing to China is a strategy that has led several businesses to success. However, it can also lead to financial losses if done with insufficient information and poor planning. But, don’t worry! We’ll guide you through it. In this article, we’ll discuss the 9 key benefits and 4 major challenges of outsourcing to China. We’ll also go over a few steps you can take to outsource to China successfully.

Whether you own an emerging startup or an established business, you’ll probably require a web developer or mobile app developer at some point. However, finding and hiring developers that fit your company’s needs can take months! So you may choose to find developers online — ones that can instantly join your project. But with hundreds of websites available today, how do you know which one is right for you? Don’t worry.