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...]
Insider Threats Are a Major Problem in All Industries: Protect Yourself With the Right Solutions
There are plenty of things to worry about and plan for when you consider all the outside threats in cyberspace. Interestingly, for most companies, the weakest link is the insider threat – the employee who has either not been properly trained or let good practices slide, inadvertently opening the door to cyber criminals. Negligence and a lack of training often work hand in hand to create a situation that can take down a company – or at the very least, cause a major inconvenience. In some … [Read more...]
5 Steps to Get Started with Zero Trust Security
Zero trust security is an approach that assumes the untrustworthiness of every user and device until proven otherwise. This is in stark contrast to past security postures which assumed devices and users were valid and trustworthy unless proven otherwise. In the days when a network perimeter could be firmly established, this approach made sense. In an era where the perimeter has eroded to be nearly non-existent, companies require a network security approach that can be applied to every level … [Read more...]
Work-From-Anywhere Security Solutions for 2022
Allowing employees to put their work hours in from the location of their choice was a topic of discussion prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when work from anywhere became a mandatory situation in 2020, it was clear that cyber security strategies needed to be addressed in a new way. Identifying the right security solutions is among the most important things companies can prioritize to protect themselves from threats specific to remote work situations. After the initial scramble to equip … [Read more...]
Tips for Preventing Cloud Infrastructure Errors
Approximately 94% of businesses use cloud-based technology. Two years ago when the pandemic brought a sense of urgency to digitize, roughly 61% of businesses migrated their workloads to the cloud, according to statistics from Techjury.net. And while the efficiencies found in cloud technology brought much-needed connectivity to these organizations, there is also a bit of risk involved – which is why cloud infrastructure requires an added layer for cyber security protection. One of the biggest … [Read more...]
5 Trends Pushing Digital Transformation Forward
IDC reports that the data analytics market is growing, with $200 billion in spending each year, propelling digital transformation initiatives forward. What’s causing this exponential growth in data management? Findings from Gartner show that 90% of businesses consider information to be a valuable asset that provides a competitive edge. This attitude is both shaping and being shaped by some important trends: Management Solutions As cloud opportunities have grown in recent years, many … [Read more...]
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