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Billionaire Carlos Slim's TracFone Wireless to Pay $40 Million To FTC For 'Deceiving' Consumers

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's U.S. mobile provider TracFone must pay $40 million to the FTC to settle charges that it deceived millions of consumers with false promises of “unlimited” data service.

How to get the best performance out of Salesforce and other SaaS apps

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become a standard consideration for even the largest companies, but the tools IT teams have traditionally used for application performance monitoring aren’t designed for these online tools. IT needs another way to make sure SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com are working properly.In order to understand and get full visibility into SaaS applications and how they are performing, you need to do the following:1. Measure the actual end-user experience.

Two Governmental Regulators Highlight Cybersecurity Issues In 2015 Priorities

It is no surprise that numerous government regulators have listed cybersecurity amongst their priorities for 2015. This past week, two of these regulators – the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of...By: King & Spalding

Twenty-eight percent of security spending wasted on shelfware

The average organization spent $115 per user on security-related software last year, but $33 of it, or 28 percent, was underutilized or not used at all, according to a new report from Osterman Research."As much as 60 percent of security software remains completely unused in some organizations," the report said.Almost all of this wasted spending was on traditional packaged software, because cloud services are typically billed based on use and need little or no additional configuration or customization.Specifically, 81 percent of security software was still delivered in the traditional way, c

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