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Amazon's new Astro robot is creeping out some observers, who say it's a potential invasion of privacy. The Astro is a Day 1 Edition product, meaning it's available via invite-only preorder, and will initially cost $1,000. It's cute-looking and uses voice-recognition software, cameras, artificial intelligence, mapping technology, and voice- and face-recognition sensors as it zooms from…

CashApp, Zelle, Venmo, ApplePay, Square - the payments industry is growing and expanding into areas we hadn’t imagined.  Everyone relied on it before the pandemic - now it’s critical infrastructure and embedded into our everyday habits. For payments providers, how are you protecting your payments application and databases? Applications store their data in a database…

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a major piece of legislation adopted in 2018. It is designed to address the protection and responsible use of every European Union citizen’s personal data. However, GDPR is not an EU-only regulation. It affects ANY business or individual handling the data of EU citizens, regardless of where…

Los Angeles – August 31, 2021 –XYPRO Technology Corporation (XYPRO), a leader in cybersecurity, announced it has acquired Workload Aware Security (WASL), a critical security and compliance monitoring platform for Linux and SAP HANA environments from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).   This acquisition brings XYPRO’s mission critical security expertise to the Open Systems and SAP HANA…

The hybrid workplace may be here to stay, but the onboarding processes you used when workers were in the office won't cut it anymore. Companies will need new strategies and techniques to improve the onboarding process for remote and hybrid workers. Think there's no need to create onboarding initiatives specifically for hybrid workers, especially now…

XYPRO is proud to announce our participation as a Gold Sponsor at the HPE NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2021. This year’s program will feature both live, on-site activities, hands on demos, training as well as virtual programs. The 2021 NonStop TBC will be held in Denver, Colorado on October 5-7. HPE and XYPRO will be…

Sheila Johnson Blommendahl 1948-2021 It is with great sadness to report that after a long illness, Sheila Sue Johnson Blommendahl passed away on July 29, 2021.   As the former CEO of XYPRO Technology, Sheila distinguished herself via a thoughtful, employee-centric approach to management, tapping on her education and counseling experience.   I had the privilege of…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI have observed continued targeting through spearphishing campaigns using TrickBot malware in North America, according to a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory published in March and updated in May. The cybercrime actors lure victims, via phishing emails, with a traffic infringement phishing scheme to download TrickBot. TrickBot—first identified in…

A recent industry phishing report showed that 4% of users are prone to click on anything sent to them. That is a scary statistic given that phishing is one of the primary methods ransomware attacks are carried out. Ransomware is extremely damaging for a business due to its relatively low cost to execute and high…