No organization on the face of the earth is immune to a data breach. Some organizations are more prepared than others to detect and prevent attacks. Some are more prepared to respond to attacks and minimize the damage. But make no mistake, every organization is at risk.
Botnets, ransomware and phishing attacks are the top threats to businesses, according to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. Although there is some overlap — ransomware, for example, is usually distributed through botnets and phishing attacks — these are nonetheless distinctive threats requiring multiple countermeasures.
Small to midsize businesses (SMBs) can improve market access, cash flow and profitability by more than 300 percent as a result of the “dexterity and flexibility” enabled by adoption of cloud technology, according to a new study from Microsoft and the Thought Arbitrage Research Institute.
As we head into the 2018 hurricane season, it’s time once again to evaluate your organization’s preparedness. Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) planning involves more than just technology — your primary objectives are to ensure the safety of your people and your facilities.
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May. Although it is widely considered to be among the most strict data privacy laws ever enacted, few organizations have made proper preparations. Ninety-three percent of global organizations surveyed in April by the business analytics company SAS said they are not yet fully GDPR compliant.
Given the critical nature of today’s IT systems and networks, the traditional break-fix service model is inching closer to obsolescence. The speed of business requires a more proactive approach to problem resolution, which is why remote management and monitoring (RMM) solutions have become essential.
The Angelbeat seminar “experience” educates attendees on today’s immediate issues and tomorrow’s growing priorities, covering these inter-related topics that increasingly share a common decision-making process/team, with lengthy breaks for peer networking and product demonstrations.
Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are eager to exploit emerging technologies, but staff limitations often frustrate attempts to launch high-level initiatives. Even companies with in-house IT staff struggle to keep pace with day-to-day operations much less accelerating technology change.
Email is perhaps the original “killer app,” an application so effective and easy to use that it sparked the rise of the personal computer and the spread of the Internet. Today it is the de facto standard for business communication with more than 4 billion email accounts worldwide generating nearly 200 billion messages every day.
Today's fast-paced business demands that applications and data are highly available. Systems are required to be resilient to all types of outages. Achieving High Availability (HA) for your IT environment can be costly, complicated and can rely heavily on adding to your server infrastructure.
