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Apple Zero-Day: How to Spot Devices to Update in Your Company in Seconds

Just a couple of days after Google announced a high-risk zero-day vulnerability in Chrome, Apple disclosed two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting their operating system on both mobile and desktop devices. The company has already issued updates for its iOS and macOS users. The patched versions are as follows: As for the Apple zero-day exploits, they were reported anonymously.

Yes, Robotic Process Automation Beneficial to the Telecom

Despite the fact that the telecom industry is constantly growing, it has been struggling to provide cutting-edge user experiences and meet the growing demands of operational agility. Telecom companies are constantly seeking for better viable choices to reduce operational expenses, increase agility, and improve efficiency. This is where emerging technologies like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can be extremely helpful.

What Are the Best Practices of Helpdesk Software in an Organization?

It has been seen several times that. When a customer raises an issue. Several technicians are working on the same problem. As a result, duplication of work occurs, and efficiency suffers. To avoid this type of problem, help where software is utilized. As it keeps updating the status in real-time and provides each problem with a unique identity number. Whenever the technician works on the same problem it alerts the member that the other technician is looking into it.

Work-Life Integration Gaining Traction in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

In the realm of employee experience and company culture, there’s no term more ubiquitous than work-life balance. It’s what every job candidate wants and every business promises. But in the years since work-life balance became a ubiquitous selling point, the workplace has changed drastically, and a new concept is starting to supplant work-life balance: work-life integration. The pandemic and coinciding shifts to remote and hybrid work have spurred a deluge of new approaches to working.

5 Important Things To Consider Before Moving To a Cloud-Based ITSM Solution

It should come as no surprise that cloud-based ITSM solutions have become so popular. As we’ve explored in our comparative piece: they are easily deployable, they tend to be less costly as an upfront investment and they are highly customizable to fit different IT infrastructures and team functions when compared to their on-site equivalent.

Reimagining customer experience: An employee story

ServiceNow Founder Fred Luddy once said, “If you have happy customers, the whole world takes care of itself.” It’s a sentiment ServiceNow believes to this very day, and it’s why we introduced ServiceNow Impact™—an industry-leading value acceleration solution that reimagines the customer experience.

How to use ITAM to support your IT support game

Historically IT asset management (ITAM) is the practice that was forgotten about by IT service management (ITSM) practitioners because it wasn’t considered a “core” ITIL process. This changed with the publication of ITIL 4, and now ITAM sits firmly in the ITIL management practice section of the service value stream. Done well, ITAM can help organizations to manage, control and support their IT services.

How to Keep Track of the Fixed Asset Movement at Different Locations?

The construction Industry is an asset-intensive industry. It is full of assets and equipment and each organization in the construction industry has equipment in abundance. Moreover, for project work, Organization sends the assets and equipment to various locations. When pieces of equipment are in distinct locations, keeping track of asset movement becomes complicated.

New world of work: The great re-evaluation

The “Great Resignation” put employees in the driver’s seat. A new ServiceNow-commissioned survey suggests that Canadian workers are re-evaluating their workplace priorities. This has led to a shift in what Canadian workers demand from potential workplaces, forcing employers to reconsider their overall experience offerings. Canadian office workers now expect something more fulfilling and meaningful than a paycheck.

Chrome Zero Day: Find vulnerable devices for patching

Google issued an emergency security update due to the severity of exploit CVE-2022-1096. A few days later, Microsoft joined the recommendation, advising Chromium Edge users to update their browsers as well. Therefore, if you haven’t already, you should check your browser details to check if it’s updated to version 99.0.4844.84 of Chrome or version 99.0.1150.55 or higher of Edge. Matt Beran shows you how you can find vulnerable devices across your inventory for proactive patching using InvGate Insight.