Most businesses today are highly dependent on goods and services from vast networks of third-party providers. Studies find that the typical company has more than 500 supply chain partners, although large multinational brands often have 100,000 or more. While these relationships create economies of scale and operational efficiencies, they also create exposure to a variety of cyber threats.

Software-defined WAN provides greater network agility and resilience for organizations with multiple locations.

The vast majority of organizations are engaged in a digital transformation initiative or are planning one. Organizations need to fully leverage technology to meet changing customer demands and respond to competitive pressures.

Most successful security breaches involve unpatched systems.

Patch management has been getting progressively more complex over the last several years, but remote and hybrid work models have ramped up the challenge considerably. With work-from-home policies becoming permanent, IT teams are tasked with securing huge numbers of endpoints not under their physical control.

Edge computing has been around for the better part of three decades, but it only entered the mainstream technology conversation a few years ago when it became a key enabler of Internet of Things (IoT) projects. While it remains essential for facilitating IoT initiatives, the edge model now has far more broad appeal with important use cases in practically every industry vertical.

In an increasingly digitized world, milliseconds matter. Almost imperceptible network communications delays can have negative consequences on a growing array of latency-sensitive applications, including voice, video, artificial intelligence, analytics and more.

There has always been a need to analyze network performance data to understand how to utilize resources most efficiently. This need has only increased with growing numbers of users and devices connecting to the network. However, traditional network monitoring tools have inherent limitations.

The recent Uber hack is a stark reminder that unsecured privileged account credentials represent the keys to the kingdom for malicious actors. In the Sept. 15 breach, an attacker compromised an administrator account with elevated privileges to gain unfettered access to the ride-hailing company’s IT systems.

Organizations can boost their security posture by recognizing the risks and following best practices.

Small to midsized businesses (SMBs) account for 99 percent of all businesses in the U.S., employing nearly 60 million people and generating 44 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

Managed switches automate many administrative tasks and provide greater insight into the health of the network.

In today’s increasingly decentralized computing environments, IT networks must support not only core systems but a growing array of remote users, branch offices and edge networks.

After a couple of years of supporting remote workforces, most organizations felt quite prepared for the transition to a hybrid work model in which employees split their time between onsite and office work. However, many are finding that disjointed communication environments are making it more difficult than they imagined.