Essential Steps to a Successful Data Center Migration
Proper migration of IT services to a data center can save money and time, minimize the need for in-house resources, and eliminate the physical room needed to store servers, computers, and other essential hardware. A smooth transition means being able to focus on business operations, making a profit, and serving the community. An improper migration […]
Ransomware as-a-Service (RaaS) Explained
Ransomware as-a-Service is making cyber crime all too easy. Now, criminals don’t have to create this malicious type of software. They can essentially use it for a minimal cost and pay the developers a cut, a percentage. Ransomware is computer software that criminals maliciously installed onto computers, cellphones, and other devices. The software typically enters […]
Managed Security Services: Service Provider Benefits
Business security needs can be a complex issue to tackle. Particularly for nontechnology-oriented businesses, the day-to-day burdens of cyber security, firewall management, malware avoidance, customer data security, intrusion detection, and more can be overwhelming or impossible. Many companies turn to a managed security service provider in order to ensure that these issues are addressed by […]
Instructive Lesson From The Amazon S3 Outage
On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, an Amazon employee made a typo during a routine billing system repair and, rather than taking only a few servers offline, instead took down a significant (but still unspecified) number of the nearly 150,000 unique websites and apps hosted or supported by the Amazon cloud computing S3 service. Affected sites […]
What Is Storage Management and Do You Need It?
Every company should have a storage management plan. As your business prospers, new customers are added, old customers return, new applications are purchased, networks grow – the need for a storage management plan becomes essential. Adding new storage is not a simple task. New data and new applications need to be integrated with old ones. […]
Best Practices on How to Create a Reliable DR Strategy
Every company that relies on its information systems for daily operations and for customer relations needs to have a disaster recovery plan in place. The difference between a valid plan and no plan (or a bad plan) can mean the difference between staying in business or being out of business. Downtime losses for companies that […]
What to Do After a Data Breach
Data breaches occur in every type of industry – healthcare, retail, financial services, communications, and any business you can think of. Proper planning to avoid data breaches is always the first priority. The best way to respond to a breach is to make sure it doesn’t occur in the first place. Still, breaches do and […]
What is The Right DDoS Protection Service For Your Organization?
A cyberattack can render your system inoperable, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming more sophisticated. Instead of a single attack, there are now distributed attacks in which many attacks are made on a key point in a system. These distributed attacks, called Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (DDoS) cause this key point to overload, attempting […]
Why Managed Firewalls are an Incredibly Important Organizational Security
A managed firewall is used to protect networks from attacks, including both networks that connect to the Internet and internal company networks. The firewall acts as a sort of policeman; all messages that want to come in or leave the network first have to meet the firewall’s approval. Additionally, the firewall can control who has […]
Understanding the True Cost of Downtime to Your Business
Any interruption in computer information services can cause your organization large economic losses and loss of valuable human resources. This is true whether the interruption is due to poor computer software design, hardware malfunctions, fire or other destruction of buildings and equipment, or cyber-attacks. Every company and organization should anticipate business interruptions, have strategies to […]
