The continued digitization of business processes and workflows has caused data volumes to skyrocket. According to research firm IDC, global data volumes could reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. In case you’re wondering, a zettabyte is a billionterabytes.
Where are we going to put it all?
That’s the question small to midsize businesses (SMBs) should be asking themselves.
When millions of Americans shifted to work-from-home arrangements due to the coronavirus, it exacerbated one of the most troublesome aspects of cybersecurity — endpoint protection. With employees now using a multitude of devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets and desktops to access the corporate network, IT security pros are left to deal with multiple new attack surfaces.
Emboldened by past successes, cybercriminals are launching more targeted attacks and seeking more lucrative payments.
When it comes to ransomware, we may be our own worst enemies. Victimized organizations increasingly choose to pay the ransom in order to regain access to encrypted data — a strategy that appears to be backfiring.
Smaller organizations are achieving cost savings, productivity gains and competitive advantages by fully leveraging the latest technologies.
New research from TechAisle finds that 51 percent of small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives despite the operational and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Network attacks, malware campaigns and phishing scams are on the rise as cybercriminals seek to capitalize on our increased anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic and the lax security measures of at-home workers. According to the FBI, threat reports through the first six months of the year have already surpassed the total for all of 2019, which was widely considered to be the worst year ever for cyberattacks.
Secure support for remote workers was a high priority for many companies as the year began. Now it is a global imperative.
Three months into the pandemic-driven work-from-home experiment, organizations are now looking to beef up support for their remote workers.
With a 1,500-horsepower engine featuring four turbochargers, the Bugatti Chiron has a top speed of nearly 305 mph, making it the fastest production sports car in history. Put it on a two-lane road with bumper-to-bumper traffic and intermittent speed bumps, however, and all that speed becomes pointless.
Wi-Fi has become an essential business tool, capable of enabling greater flexibility, operational efficiency and customer service. But because Wi-Fi transports data over radio frequencies, it is vulnerable to six threats that don’t impact the wired network.
As we discussed in a previous post, there remains widespread confusion about the cloud’s “shared responsibility” security model. Major cloud service providers such as Microsoft and Google have strong measures in place to protect their platforms, but their customers are responsible for securing their data within these cloud environments.
Desktop virtualization can provide secure remote access to applications and data, but the implementation comes with significant challenges.
The need to support work-from-home strategies has renewed interest in desktop virtualization. With virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), all components of each user’s desktop environment are stored in the data center or the cloud and delivered to the user on nearly any device.
