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ISG Executive Insights helps users manage their complex supplier ecosystems

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Information Services Group (ISG) launched ISG Executive Insights, a market intelligence and data analytics platform that addresses the challenges of managing increasingly complex supplier ecosystems.

ISG Executive Insights

With ISG Executive Insights, organizations can now gather insights in one platform to optimize provider relationships, risk and compliance. The new data-analytics-as-a-solution offering is powered by ISG’s data repository, a comprehensive, curated database of global IT, business process and engineering outsourcing contracts—paired with ISG’s patented IT price benchmarking, market cost intelligence and other analytical tools.

Leveraging data from more than 180,000 sourcing contracts, 5,600 unique assessments and 1.3 million deliverables and obligations, ISG Executive Insights delivers market trends and forecasts; information on provider capabilities, pricing and commercial terms; real-time analytics, risk mitigation and ongoing, post-deal value realization.

Enterprise leaders can quickly access intelligence on which suppliers have created value for the business, how spending compares with the market, how provider projects are performing and what governance and operational best practices need to be adopted.

“No other technology research and advisory firm can offer the same level of actionable data and insights as ISG,” said Todd Lavieri, vice chairman and president, ISG Americas and Asia Pacific.

“To make the best decisions, enterprises increasingly need current and meaningful data from the market, their organizations, and their ecosystems of partners and relationships,” Lavieri said. “ISG Executive Insights turns the data we gather and analyze in the course of advising on more than $18 billion of annual contract value every year into actionable intelligence for global clients and all ecosystem participants across all sectors of the marketplace. There is no other platform like it.”

Enterprises can use the platform to manage performance and spending, mitigate risk and foster innovation with data-powered profiles of provider capabilities and risk, intuitive dashboards, price intelligence, mobile network maps, on-demand assessments, continuous monitoring,…

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Software supplier is latest victim of ransomware attack

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Software supplier is latest victim of ransomware attack – CBS News

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Software supplier Kaseya was targeted by hackers in a ransomware attack. At least eight companies have been compromised. CBSN’s Lana Zak has more.

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Verizon, Southern California Water Supplier Among Those hit in Suspected Chinese Hack

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Verizon and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California were two high-value targets hit by a suspected Chinese-backed hack that was first brought to the public’s attention in April, the Associated Press reported.



a group of people walking down the street: Pedestrians cross Herald Square in front of a Verizon Wireless store in New York on Friday, March 18, 2016. Verizon was one of the high-value targets in the Pulse cyberespionage campaign.

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Pedestrians cross Herald Square in front of a Verizon Wireless store in New York on Friday, March 18, 2016. Verizon was one of the high-value targets in the Pulse cyberespionage campaign.

Pulse Connect Secure networking devices are used by many companies and governments to allow secure remote access to their networks and those were the targets of the hacks. The Chinese government was suspected of backing the hacks, but China has denied any role.

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Verizon, which has over 120 million subscribers through Verizon Wireless, said a Pulse-related compromise was found in one of its labs. The hack was quickly dealt with, and Verizon said no data or customer information had been accessed or stolen.

“We know that bad actors try to compromise our systems,” said Verizon spokesman Rich Young. “That is why internet operators, private companies and all individuals need to be vigilant in this space.”

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the country’s largest water agency, provides water to 19 million people and operates some of the largest treatment plants worldwide, reported it also found a compromised device after an alert issued in April.

The device was immediately removed from service and spokeswoman Rebecca Kimitch said there was “no known data exfiltration” and no systems or processes were known to be affected.

The Associated Press reported earlier this month that the country’s largest subway system in New York City was also breached during the hack.

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Security researchers say dozens of other high-value entities that have not yet been named were also targeted as part of the breach of Pulse Secure.

It’s unclear what sensitive information, if any, was accessed. Some of the targets said they did not see any evidence of data being stolen. That uncertainty is common in cyberespionage and it can take months to determine data loss,…

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Chinese Hack Targeted Verizon and Water Supplier: AP Report

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  • China hacked into Pulse Connect Secure, which provides internet security for Verizon, among others. 
  • Sophisticated hackers were able to exploit never-before-seen vulnerabilities.
  • It’s unclear, what, if any sensitive information the hackers were able to ascertain. 
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A cyberespionage campaign blamed on China was more sweeping than previously known, with suspected state-backed hackers exploiting a device meant to boost internet security to penetrate the computers of critical US entities.

The hack of Pulse Connect Secure networking devices came to light in April, but its scope is only now starting to become clear. The Associated Press has learned that the hackers targeted telecommunications giant Verizon and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the country’s largest water agency. News broke earlier this month that the New York City subway system, the country’s largest, was also breached.

Security researchers say dozens of other high-value entities that have not yet been named were also targeted as part of the breach of Pulse Secure, which is used by many companies and governments for secure remote access to their networks.

It’s unclear what sensitive information, if any, was accessed. Some of the targets said they did not see any evidence of data being stolen. That uncertainty is common in cyberespionage and it can take months to determine data loss, if it is ever discovered. Ivanti, the Utah-based owner of Pulse Connect Secure, declined to comment on which customers were affected.

But even if sensitive information wasn’t compromised, experts say it is worrisome that hackers managed to gain footholds in networks of critical organizations whose secrets could be of interest to China for commercial and national security reasons.

“The threat actors were able to get access to some really high-profile organizations, some really well-protected ones,” said Charles Carmakal, the chief technology officer…

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