Managed services providers help organizations adopt advanced technologies without misgivings.
Global IT spending will exceed $4 trillion this year as organizations continue investing in sophisticated solutions to help them remain competitive in a rapidly evolving technology and business environment.
Desktop-as-a-Service solutions help organizations cut costs and improve productivity by offloading much of their desktop management burden.
In the traditional office computing environment, everyone in the company has a desktop or laptop computer loaded with applications and data and managed by the internal IT staff.
The accelerated adoption of technologies such as cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence creates enormous operational benefits for most organizations but also contributes to increased network complexity. More than half of IT professionals say they are no longer confident in their organization’s ability to effectively manage this complexity, according to a new SolarWinds study.
It is beyond debate that IT modernization efforts require a well-defined cloud computing strategy. In a recent survey, more than 95 percent of IT leaders said they are aggressively pursuing plans to leverage public, private and hybrid clouds to help meet the future IT needs of their organizations.
As we discussed in our last post, the growing scale, sophistication and frequency of today’s cyber threats demand a fundamental rethinking of our approach to cybersecurity. Traditional reactive measures designed to secure your network and systems after an attack are no longer sufficient.
While discussing military strategy more than 200 years ago, George Washington offered some advice that modern-day cybersecurity professionals are now taking to heart. “Offensive operations,” he wrote in 1799, “are oftentimes the surest means of defense.
Monitoring services alert organizations to potential threats from stolen information.
More than 24 billion stolen username and password combinations are now for sale on the dark web, according to a new study from the threat intelligence firm Digital Shadows.
Old cybersecurity habits increasingly inadequate against evolving threats.
The Whack-A-Mole approach to cybersecurity doesn’t work anymore. Years of continually adding new security products for every emerging threat has only resulted in overly complex and often counterproductive security environments.
Compromised endpoint devices such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones and printers have become primary access points for cybercriminals attempting to infiltrate networks. More than two-thirds of IT security professionals say their organizations have experienced one or more endpoint attacks that successfully compromised their data and infrastructure, according to research from the Ponemon Institute.
Threat actors, including state-supported groups and cybercrime organizations, are actively ramping up attacks that leverage a recently discovered zero-day flaw in a Microsoft Windows support tool. The flaw, known as Follina, allows attackers to remotely take control of targeted computer systems through the use of altered Office documents.
