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Since 2015, Built In Chicago has published the Top 100 report: an annual ranking of the city’s biggest digital tech companies based on local employee count. This year, the city’s 100 biggest tech companies employed 48,000 people, up from 41,000 in 2016.

When it comes to cybersecurity, your chief objective should be to manage things proactively and on your terms, as opposed to constantly playing catch-up and responding to vulnerabilities only after they've been exploited.

NEWS ANALYSIS: You can’t prevent all attempts to penetrate your enterprise security, but you can impede the attackers and you can keep them from getting the data they want.

As many software vendors continue to move towards a Software-as-a-Service model, the cost of software licenses is accounting for a significant portion of the typical IT budget, up to 30%. These costs are a substantial expenditure for today’s enterprise.

Hi, it's Dave Littman at Truth in IT. I'm joined by Mat Marnell. Matt, with Flexera Software. Matt, welcome.

Baird & Warner, Impact Networking and Holiday Inn ChicagoMart Plaza have taken the top spots for large, midsize and small Chicagoland workplaces, respectively, according to rankings released by Energage behalf of the Chicago Tribune. For the past eight years, Energage, formerly WorkplaceDynamics, has been ranking workplaces in the Chicago area and the nation through employee surveys, assessing everything from work-life balance to confidence in company leadership.

Ransomware attacks are increasingly turning into a game of wack-a-mole; Bad Rabbit is rapidly spreading around Europe as the world is still recovering from WannaCry, NotPetya and more. While vulnerabilities are increasing, users are not patching quickly enough.

How Open Source software vulnerabilities for IoT and are causing rifts in overall enterprise security.

Chicago’s tech sector keeps on climbing.

As 143 million Equifax consumers continue to pick up the pieces from stolen Social Security numbers, birth dates, drivers’ licenses, addresses and credit card numbers, Flexera has another warning – expect a long tail of incidents and breaches in the months and years to come.

The rise of shadow IT, shortcomings in the cloud, security breaches — IT leadership is all about navigating hurdles and deficiencies, and learning to adapt to inevitable setbacks.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

IT organizations have had a vested interest in trying to rationalize the number of applications that need to be supported to reduce the licensing fees and minimize total cost of operations.

The rise of shadow IT, shortcomings in the cloud, security breaches — IT leadership is all about navigating hurdles and deficiencies, and learning to adapt to inevitable setbacks.

The software supply chain stack: How to manage, maintain, secure and optimize it. We chat w. Matt Marnell from Flexera about all the aspects of managing heterogeneous software implementations so you know how to get the most from your investments.

Organizations are facing large obstacles as they migrate production workloads to the cloud, including a lack of comprehensive data visibility.

Taking the necessary steps to prevent a security breach can help protect your organisation, its reputation and your clients.

Most software contract negotiations focus on the upfront cost of software and aim to get the most purchase discounts from vendors. Finance heads must look beyond purchase costs as other factors help reduce the financial liability of software.

New cloud-based software solutions that users and business units bring to the enterprise are changing the way IT organisations manage their business.

How can companies increase employee engagement? I recently spoke with six executives about the role company culture plays in employee engagement.