Archive for September 21, 2026

What European IT teams say about application management: Recall

Posted in Commentary with tags on September 21, 2026 by itnerd

There is new research from application management provider Recast Software. Recast surveyed over 100 IT professionals at European community and industry events between January and June 2026 about application management priorities. Respondents included sysadmins, endpoint engineers, packagers, architects and IT managers.

A few interesting findings:

  • 53% cite application security and compliance as a top challenge, while 51% cite managing application updates and patches
  • 44% expect changes to their VDI/SBC environment within the next 12 months, and 70% expect change within a defined timeframe
  • 85% use Microsoft Intune, while 32% also use Configuration Manager
  • 47% are open to exploring new application management solutions

The full report, “The State of Application Management: What European IT Teams Told Us,” is available here:
https://www.recastsoftware.com/resources/state-application-management-what-eu-it-teams-told-us/.

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Privacy Policies Of Router Companies Analyzed By Cybernews

Posted in Commentary with tags on September 21, 2026 by itnerd

Cybernews has a study they’ve just released analyzing the privacy policies of leading router brands. We examined what user data these companies disclose collecting and what their policies leave unclear.

Here are the most concerning things we found after analyzing the privacy policies of 25 leading router brands:

Pre-purchase transparency is blocked 

Because relevant privacy terms are often inaccessible until after purchase, registration, or setup, consumers cannot make informed privacy decisions before buying.

Catch-all policy increases legal ambiguity 

High-risk-scoring brands like D-Link, Omada, and Wyze performed poorly largely due to overly vague, corporate-wide policies that create legal ambiguity around network monitoring.

Universal DNS opacity

All 25 analyzed vendors (100%) received a Not Specified rating for DNS request logging, failing to confirm or deny whether they record the domain names users visit. Given that DNS is one of the most revealing signals a router can log (it’s basically a timestamped list of every site a user visits), providers seem rather too ambiguous about it.

Pervasive geolocation exposure

Zero analyzed brands explicitly rule out tracking precise device location (7 confirm doing so outright, 6 do it conditionally, while 12 fail to specify), and 92% (23 of 25) either partially confirm or fail to disclose whether they harvest nearby Wi-Fi network identifiers (SSIDs/BSSIDs). Ultimately, this opens the door to highly invasive physical location tracking.

The full report is available here: 

https://cybernews.com/privacy/router-privacy-index-2026-industry-wide-transparency-failures-exposed

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