Organizations must take steps to reduce risks from unmanaged file-sharing services.

Cloud applications and services make it easy for business users to explore new ways to do their jobs with improved speed, flexibility andefficiency. Unfortunately, they also make it easy to circumvent IT authorization, which significantly heightens the risk of data loss and compliance violations.

You probably have at least a vague idea of the meaning of a Trojan horse. Even if you don’t know the whole story of how Greek soldiers snuck into the city of Troy by hiding inside a giant wooden horse, which was thought to be a gift signifying surrender… well, you do now.

Perimeter security is still an essential part of a layered approach to network protection. But firewalls alone are not enough. Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) are much more effective than traditional firewalls but still lack important features that are critical to detecting the latest threats.

Enhanced biometrics solutions boost security through stronger authentication.

The password has been a linchpin of security for millennia, a common way to demand proof of identity in order to control access to an area. It may have been effective for medieval castle sentries, but the password has become notoriously inadequate for protecting modern IT environments.

Organizations are turning to managed security service providers for help in boosting data security and regulatory compliance.

Organizations continue to make significant investments in cybersecurity, but cybersecurity incidents continue to make headlines.

Software-defined WAN solutions help to reduce costs and streamline operations through flexibility, consolidation and centralized management.

The wide-area network (WAN) has become one of the most critical components of the IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to gain access to cloud resources and connect remote locations and workers to headquarters.

According to a recent survey from Softchoice, just 43 percent of IT leaders said their organizations have been able to stick to their cloud budgets. The same number confessed to not understanding how to create an effective cloud management strategy. Obviously, if you don’t know how to manage your cloud services, you’ll probably have trouble managing the costs involve with those services.

Although the concept of the cloud in terms of multiple users sharing computer resources has been around since the 1960s, the modern version of the cloud didn’t start to take shape until the late 1990s. Then came Salesforce, Amazon, Google and others with now ubiquitous cloud offerings that can be accessed from any device.

Gartner has predicted that machine learning will be a standard part of cybersecurity by 2025. The need for machine learning has become more urgent with hackers constantly developing new tools and techniques for carrying out attacks, many of which are automated to overwhelm security defenses.

With Office 365, Microsoft converted the world’s most popular business software suite into a cloud-delivered service with powerful new capabilities. Companies have been eager to take advantage of them. It is the world’s most widely used Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business platform with about 170 million monthly active users, and it is gaining about 3 million new users each month.