Tag: software

March 17, 2023

The O-RAN Alliance signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OAI), in which both entities agreed to cooperate on O-RAN issues, open source software development, and 5G. Under the terms of the deal, both organizations will encourage […]

March 8, 2023

A network protocol is a set of established rules that specify how to format, send and receive data so that computer network endpoints, including computers, servers, routers and virtual machines, can communicate despite differences in their underlying infrastructures, designs or […]

March 3, 2023

A shift towards network virtualization and software-defined networking is one of the telecom trends that Corning’s Director of Wireless R&D and Chief Technologist Shirish Nagaraj believes is most impacting the workforce landscape, particularly in the way that it changes how […]

March 2, 2023

Like “SBOMs will solve everything,” there is a regular cry to reform software liability, specifically in the case of products with insecurities and vulnerabilities. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly’s comments this week brought the topic […]

February 1, 2023

Cybersecurity continues its evolution and organizations are focused on it more holistically, as part of business outcomes rather than as component parts, according to Theresa Lanowitz of AT&T. Lanowitz, who is the head of evangelism for AT&T Business’ cybersecurity segment, […]

January 9, 2023

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) — together referred to as CI/CD — is a software development principal or method in which automation is introduced into the entire lifecycle of software or application development, from testing to deployment. The […]

December 28, 2022

The Log4Shell critical vulnerability that impacted millions of enterprise applications remains a common cause for security breaches a year after it received patches and widespread attention and is expected to remain a popular target for some time to come. Its […]

December 1, 2022

The way build artifacts are stored by the GitHub Actions platform could enable attackers to inject malicious code into software projects with CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) workflows that don’t perform sufficient filtering when downloading artifacts. Cybersecurity researchers have […]

October 14, 2022

Keysight Technologies has added updates to its flagship Pathwave design software to support designs for 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN), by enabling architectural digital twins. Keysight says this changes the design flow from one that is hardware-centric to one that is […]

September 27, 2022

As the Log4J crisis made clear, understanding what is in the software unpinning your applications is crucial to understanding your security posture. This is no less true of your network services. Enterprise-network infrastructure is still very much about hardware in […]

August 16, 2022

In most large and medium-sized companies, IT infrastructure management falls into the “hard jobs” category. And that’s because network specialists have to manually configure and manage hundreds or even thousands of hardware and software components to keep enterprise applications and […]

June 21, 2022

AWS is making a push into an area of quantum computing that hasn’t received as much attention as other aspects: networking. The AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN) will work toward solving scientific and engineering challenges around creating new hardware, […]

May 11, 2022

As the fallout from the Apache Log4J vulnerabilities earlier this year shows, the biggest risks in enterprise software today are not necessarily with insecure code written directly by in-house software development teams. The flaws of the components, libraries and other […]

April 19, 2022

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to replace on-premise licensed software for security, business support systems, and other essential services can realize a 25% IT cost savings over a five-year period, compared to the traditional on-premise software model. That’s […]

April 8, 2022

Ooredoo Qatar, a leading one-stop national provider of ICT, has signed an agreement with Siemens and Microsoft. The objective of this MoU is to develop digital, Internet of Things (IoT) and software analytics solutions and related use cases by leveraging […]

March 29, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau added equipment and services from Russian firm Kaspersky Lab, and Chinese operators China Telecom (Americas), and China Mobile International USA to its list of communications equipment and services that have […]

March 14, 2022

At AT&T’s analyst and investor day, CEO John Stankey signaled a two-act reinvention for the operator, describing a company more focused on connectivity and value-added software packages than on the entertainment play that characterized its recent past. For nearly the […]

February 14, 2022

Malware, short for malicious software, is a blanket term for viruses, worms, trojans and other harmful computer programs attackers use to wreak destruction and gain access to sensitive information. The key point is that malware is identified as such based […]

February 14, 2022

On February 4, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued several documents and updates that spell out software security guidance and recommended consumer labeling practices for software and IoT devices. NIST also laid out its approach to consumer […]

January 13, 2022

Robocall mitigation efforts are having an impact, according to new information from Transaction Network Services (TNS). But do consumers feel the difference? Not necessarily—or at least, not yet. TNS analyzes more than 1.6 billion calls across carrier networks each day […]