Now more than ever, businesses require reliable network connectivity and access to corporate resources. Connections to and from business units, vendors and branch offices are all equally important to keep the continuity when needed. Business runs all day, every day and even in off hours. Most companies run operations around the clock, seven days a…
Service interruptions can happen to anyone. Is your business prepared to wait out an outage? Gartner estimates that 97 percent of business based communications are via email, yet 29 percent of companies have no contingency plans in place and are forced to resort to private email and phone, or go home when email is down.
Nasty Malware has been making the rounds more and more these days. Encrypting it’s victims’ files, and then refusing to unlock them unless you pay a ridiculous sum. Ransomware is a serious headache! But you can remove many ransomware viruses without losing your files.
Every business owner and IT professional has a need to get a disaster recovery plan in place. Many times the expense prevents companies from investing in DR other times it’s the technology. Disaster recovery however is vital to a business. Businesses use information technology to quickly and efficiently process information. Employees use Email and VoIP…
In a galaxy not so far away loads of Internet of Things devices are showing up on corporate networks. Business networks are being invaded by security cameras, projectors, Thermostats, Coffee Machines, iPads, headsets and all sorts of new IP enabled devices without much thought of security.
SD WAN is networking technology aimed at making the network as agile and flexible as a virtual server and storage infrastructure of a data center. More simply it is a method of leveraging the benefits of cloud, the bandwidth of broadband and existing WAN infrasructure to more efficiently and cost effectively transmit data from…
Today more than ever cloud computing is the focus of IT decision makers and corporate bean counters not to mention thousands of cloud salespeople. There is a lot of confusion around what cloud is and the various types of cloud solutions such as private cloud, public cloud and even more confusing “hybrid cloud”. So what…
A network security key refers to the password or alphanumeric key that end users enter to access a local area network. A security key is a resource for a specific security protocol that helps secure the local network.
Cisco prepared a 2016 Security Report in which they determined aging infrastructure is an increasing issue, leaving organizations vulnerable to malicious attacks, breaches or exposure. Of the 115,000 Cisco devices analyzed in the study, 92% had software with known weaknesses to security incidents.
Network security is an organization’s strategy to protect the usability and integrity of your network assets and traffic. It includes the implementations of both hardware and software security technologies. Effective network security manages access to the network. It targets threats and stops them from entering or spreading into your network.