A new report from the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has found that the agency’s software license management program is noncompliant with both its policies and industry best practices. The ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Steven Wells is the senior director of program management for DLT Solutions. Federal agencies didn’t fare so well in the latest Federal ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. With public-sector budgets being notoriously tight, it is more ...

Jim Ryan is the chief operating officer at Flexera. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently held a hearing titled “Government Accountability Office’s Duplication Report at Five ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

COMMENTARY--Jim Doe could very easily be you. He is a systems administrator at a large sales and service company with 5,000 employees, more than 100 software applications and dozens of branch offices.

It’s all over the news—the IT news at least—Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) is under attack. The patch, which Microsoft will issue today, should fix the bug. But what if your patch doesn’t ...

Woburn, MA – January 22, 2018 – According to Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT researchers, a variety of serious vulnerabilities have been identified in the Hardware Against Software Piracy (HASP) license ...

A variety of serious vulnerabilities have been identified in popular license management software used in corporate and industrial control system (ICS) environments to activate software on PCs and ...

IT assets are software, hardware or cloud resources that help businesses run their operations. Managing these assets efficiently is crucial for optimizing productivity, reducing costs and ensuring ...

Software is everywhere -- in mobile devices, commercial equipment, desktop applications, network servers and more. It's difficult to find a device that doesn't contain software. But where does that ...