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The Five Biggest Trends Driving Software Licensing and Entitlement Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally, the company's software was hosted on-site at their customers' locations, lowering the likelihood of data breaches. The result is that customers expect their devices to do more, so both B2B and B2C companies are compelled to expand their hardware device’s functionality with embedded software.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. In your grandfather’s data breach—e.g., All rights reserved. Dep’t of Just.,