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.
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.