$5400 per day. That’s the average estimated cost to retailers for network downtime, according to Gartner1. Even sluggish network performance is costly. It frustrates your customers and staff, it reduces sales as people abandon long lines, and it erodes customer loyalty. It’s a brand killer. As retail continues to evolve,...
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Cannabis Compliance: Is your health information protected?
The legal regime for cannabis compliance is a highly fractured one in the U.S. As of today, we’re approaching the legalized use of either recreational or medicinal marijuana in 30 states with eight states and the District of Columbia nearing full recreational use. Five states in the country continue to...
Cannabis Dispensary Security: How Much Do You Need?
How much cannabis dispensary security do you need? The tides shifted dramatically in the way that cannabis is bought and sold, especially in California where recreational cannabis will make the state a leader in cannabis sales worldwide. Before recreational legalization, medical dispensaries required cannabis consumers to show a cannabis card...
Cloud Backups
Cloud backup, also known as online backup, is a strategy for backing up data that involves sending a copy of the data over a proprietary network to an off-site server. The server is usually hosted by a third-party service provider, which charges the backup customer a fee based on capacity, bandwidth...
The Benefits of Cloud Storage
At Signiant, we’ve embraced cloud-native software design with our two SaaS (Software as a Service) products, Media Shuttle and Flight. Signiant engineers pioneered the first true SaaS solutions for accelerated file transfers, and we continue to lead the way in innovative approaches with six out of our ten patents awarded for cloud technologies. Automatic Upgrades...
SaaS Benefits For Your Business
As technology progresses, more solutions are created to help businesses reduce costs and increase efficiency. One such solution is “Software as a Service,” aka SaaS. To know if this SaaS benefits your business, you need to know first what SaaS actually is. Read on to learn more. What is SaaS...
Hackers hide cryptocurrency mining malware in Adobe Flash updates
Crypto scammers have gotten extra creative and are now hiding cryptocurrency mining malware in legitimate updates of Adobe Flash Player. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks discovered a fake Flash updater which has been doing the rounds since early August. While it claims to install a legitimate Flash update, the malicious...
Windows file may be secretly hoarding your passwords and emails
If you're one of the people who own a stylus or touchscreen-capable Windows PC, then there's a high chance there's a file on your computer that has slowly collected sensitive data for the past months or even years. This file is named WaitList.dat, and according to Digital Forensics and Incident...
Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability
The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software that could have been fatal to the Bitcoin Network, which is usually known as the most hack-proof and secure blockchain. The DDoS Attack Found in Bitcoin Core The DDoS vulnerability,...
Here Are the Most In-Demand Freelance Skills
What are the most in-demand freelance skills? Whatever your freelance jam is right now, most of us could use a boost to the bank account whenever possible. You might be working on a book, or building up your Etsy site for dog sweaters, or gearing up to open a tiny-but-adorable...
Apple Bans Crypto Mining Apps
Apple Bans All Crypto Mining Apps from App Store Apple has made several policy changes over the last few days that will effectively ban all crypto mining features from apps in the App Store. This change comes not long after Apple removed an app called Calender 2, which silently began...
American Cybercrime: The Riskiest States in 2018
Nearly 50 percent of Americans don’t use antivirus software That’s right; something as basic as installing internet security software (which we all know we’re supposed to use) is completely ignored by about half the US. You’d be amazed how common this and other risky online behaviors are. We did a...