As more consumers and businesses prioritize purchasing from companies that pursue sustainability measures, there are new trends emerging in the tech market. The data center, in particular, has the potential to make great strides in sustainability simply because it tends to use a lot of energy. Some companies are making major strides in improving their energy consumption and efforts to offset their energy use, while others may be making more noise than any real effort. You can see this in … [Read more...]
Disaster Recovery and Business Impact Analysis: Concepts That Can Save a Business
A business impact analysis is one of the smartest preventative maintenance tasks a company can invest in today, particularly with cyber security risks increasing in number and severity. One area that is carefully examined in the analysis is disaster recovery. While preventing disasters with proactive measures, such as automated traffic monitoring, is a part of every good plan, knowing what to do in the event of a disaster is equally as proactive and can protect your business. Digitalization … [Read more...]
How to Apply Solid Cyber Security Practices to Your Cloud Migration
If your company has yet to engage in a cloud migration process, you will likely have one soon. Motivated by cost savings, the ability to support remote work with a consistent experience, and the flexibility and scalability of cloud solutions, many companies are looking for more ways to utilize cloud technology. There are many elements to a successful cloud migration, including staying on budget and within the right timeline. But one of the most pressing is balancing cyber security concerns as … [Read more...]
Protect Your Data With These Cyber Security Best Practices
Human error is one of the most common sources of cyber security events. Whether it’s poor password hygiene or uninformed users making risky moves, cyber criminals often gain access through avoidable errors made by employees. A lack of environmental awareness is often the window through which bad actors gain access to systems. For example, environmentally unaware security teams have not established the fabric through which visibility is possible, such as monitoring tools that throw up red … [Read more...]
Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Digital Era
Reports of extreme weather across the globe are causing companies to consider how to best protect their data and systems. For disaster recovery experts, this means they’re constantly thinking of new and improved ways to claw back from a natural disaster or perhaps even keep everything operational during a weather event. But disasters aren’t solely at the hand of Mother Nature; disaster recovery can also help a business recover when employee error or technology failure occurs. In the best-case … [Read more...]
5 Questions You Should Ask Your Managed Services Provider
You’ve identified an area of your business where you can gain measurable benefits by migrating to a cloud solution. Whether it’s unified communications, disaster recovery, or security, a managed services provider can help you reduce costs, improve scalability, and utilize the latest features in a subscription-based model. Managed IT services also reduce the burden on your in-house team, but there are five critical questions you should ask a managed services provider before signing with … [Read more...]
Your Network Disaster Recovery Audit: Best Practices for an Enhanced Strategy
Companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on cloud technology to hit growth goals, making cloud solutions critical components in infrastructure planning. But one question IT teams are asking is whether cloud-based solutions assist in generating a network disaster recovery audit. A disaster recovery audit allows companies to protect data and systems from the possibility of a disruptive event, such as a network or equipment outage, or a power outage due to a natural disaster. Audit … [Read more...]
Don’t Be the Victim of a Data Breach
“Breach” has more than one meaning when it applies to cyber security. For example, you could have a data breach or a privacy breach. You can also have a physical breach, an electronic breach, or a skimming breach. Breaches can come from malware, phishing, denial-of-service, password attacks and through ransomware. One of the most common headaches organizations have to deal with are data breaches. How can you protect your data? How a Breach Affects Your Business Breaches can result in the … [Read more...]
Why Companies Aren’t Employing Zero Trust Strategies for Endpoint Security
As companies continue to move more of their employees across widely dispersed areas, shift processes to the cloud, and see the elimination of the network perimeter, endpoint security becomes more important. But according to a survey conducted by Tanium, too many companies are letting their cyber security strategies slide. Among those responding, 55% said that approximately 75% of potential endpoint attacks wouldn’t be hindered by their current tools or policies. Why Endpoints Aren’t Being … [Read more...]
4 Smart Strategies to Protect Against Phishing
Your cyber security strategy probably includes some information about phishing. Maybe you even mention it at your orientation and provide a guide for what to do in the case that an employee spots a phishing email. But there’s so much more you could be doing to prevent this type of attack on your data and systems. Here are four innovative ideas for improving identification and response to phishing emails: Start With Training Phishing is one of the most common ways in which every level of … [Read more...]
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