A technology roadmap is a vital asset to utilize when planning for your business for the near future. IT is turbulent and demands that you always think ahead; if you want to ensure technology doesn’t become a major pain point for your business, it’s best to start thinking ahead now. How should your business technology change and adapt over the course of 2019? Read more below.
Cybersecurity has changed significantly since 2017, and any organization that wants to survive in the evolving online environment needs to ponder how they are protecting their assets. Let's take a look at exactly how cybersecurity has been altered since 2017, including some of the notable statistics regarding the current state of online threats for today’s businesses.
Phishing scams have one of the most descriptive names in all of computing, mostly because of how similar phishing is with fishing. When someone goes fishing or phishing, bait is dangled in the hopes of getting a bite, and different types of bait can be used, depending on the catch one is trying to make.
Many businesses that don’t have the same amount of funding and services might wind up spending more in attempts to compete with these larger businesses, but the way forward isn’t always clear. For small businesses that have trouble managing the numerous moving parts of their business, communication is imperative, especially in an age where so many businesses have remote employees who are not always in the office to speak to directly. Discussed below is what the modern face of communications looks like with a particular focus on conferencing services.
Your organization is running smoothly... a disaster happens. Whether this disaster is caused by an act of God, a hacker, or one of your own employees, you must be ready. Let's take a look at several statistics that show you just how imperative having a well strategized data backup and disaster recovery plan is.
Ransomware has been a serious threat to all kinds of organizations for a couple of years, and 2018 is no different. For those who are somehow unaware, ransomware is a form of malicious software that threatens the elimination of hijacked and encrypted data if a user doesn’t pay a ransom. It is known to be one of the most prolific and pervasive threats seen on the Internet today. Below we'll examine how ransomware has evolved over the past several years, what the future of ransomware looks like, and what you can do to protect yourself against it.
Managing business technology is no simple task, especially if your budget doesn’t isn't large enough for an internal IT department. You want professionals who know what they are doing to be the first ones handling your organization’s technology solutions, but sometimes this just isn’t possible. While the concept of outsourcing technology management and maintenance to a third party sounds odd at first, it is better just about any other alternative out there.
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be described simply as 'devices that have connectivity to the Internet, and thus to a computing network'. Most of the time these connected devices aren’t produced with security solutions onboard, so they can be fickle instruments when trying to onerously secure a network that includes numerous IoT devices. Listed below are some of the threats IoT devices pose to your network, and how to reliably secure it from these threats.
Organizations must protect themselves in our current climate littered with cyber threats. This fact can’t be negotiated, but many businesses have found themselves attempting to get by without protecting their assets or network infrastructure. Failing to implement security standards for your company could put its future on the line.
Email security has suffered recently because of the commoditization of basic email security services. If every spam solution is the same, then they can be changed out to just about any other solution out there, removing quality and replacing it with quantity. This trend has taken antivirus--the fact that free antivirus exists and many people prefer it over some paid solutions is a testament to this--but will spam protection move in the same direction?
