Cloud adoption among small to midsize businesses (SMBs) continues to increase because cloud capabilities and applications line up nicely with the business goals of smaller companies. The cloud is cost-effective and mobile-friendly, and it allows organizations to automate business and IT functions across the organization to boost productivity.
For Christmas this year, Verteks is helping to support the “Joy For All Gift Drive” benefiting the teens and tweens in foster care in Marion county and surrounding areas.
There are almost 1,000 teens and tweens in foster care in our community – these kids are often placed in homes with meager incomes, and in some cases these kids don’t have much of a Christmas to speak of.
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The Orlando Cyber Security Conference features 40-60 vendor exhibits and 8-12 educational speaker sessions discussing current cyber-security issues such as cloud security, email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security & more.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling an economic transformation that may eventually rival the Industrial Revolution. PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts say the IoT will soon become a multi-trillion dollar industry, and Gartner researchers predict more than half of new businesses will run on the IoT within two years.
In the previous post, we discussed the fact that many organizations are creating security risks by handing out local admin rights to too many users. The goal is to keep users happy by providing them with more control of their devices and reduce reliance on IT, but the convenience factor shouldn’t outweigh the security risk.
Verteks Consulting is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor for this year’s City of Eustis Charity Golf Tournament, 2018
In a previous post, we discussed why access control isn't just about restricting network access to users with legitimate credentials. Access control should also restrict access to sensitive systems and data to specific users. When employees have free rein across the network, it’s like opening up a buffet for hackers who steal credentials.
At this year’s DEF CON cyber security event, security researches demonstrated that by using a telephone line they could send a fax that would enable them to access and gain complete control of the recipient’s fax machine and any connected network.
Most organizations have some kind of mechanism in place to determine who is allowed to access their IT systems and to authenticate that access. But many organizations give little thought to the type of data that users are allowed to see. Although access to some sensitive data, such as financial or private customer data, tends to be restricted, the average user with legitimate credentials will be able to view, modify, copy or delete a large proportion of data across the IT environment.
Data backup is one of the most critical IT functions, but historically it has been difficult to get right. Studies regularly find that about one-third of all companies never back up their business data, while roughly the same number say they conduct intermittent backups but never test their backups to ensure they’re working properly.
