5 Impactful Elements That Promote IT and Business Alignment
Running a business takes a lot of moving pieces and parts. Getting all these elements to work in tandem is what helps – or hinders – your objectives. Whether you want to improve your operational efficiency, jumpstart productivity, or break…
Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: How Tech Users Lack Fundamental Cybersecurity Knowledge
Not surprisingly, internet connectivity is at an all-time high. Also not surprisingly, this has led to a rise in cyberattacks: Phishing and identity theft are prevalent (yet, underreported), and the adoption of best practices continues to lag as nearly two-thirds…
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Cybersecurity Skills That Will Protect Your Bottom Line
It’s hard to avoid a hazard you can’t recognize. Imagine you’re driving in a foreign country. You come upon a low water crossing sign but can’t identify the writing. Drive on and you’re going in blind to the inherent danger….
How Chemical Companies Can Formulate
a Future-Proof Workforce
Embracing technology creates a culture that attracts and retains the best and brightest The American workforce — and its employers — has undergone transformational change over the past two-plus years. The chemical industry has felt the effects of these changes…
Future in Motion: Top Tech Trends for 2022
Gartner’s annual Strategic Technology Trend list is considered to be the de¬finitive predictor of what’s to come. Innovative businesses with the most successful track records know to pay attention to everyone. This year’s trends fall into three distinct categories: engineering…
7 Key Steps to Improving Your Data Security
The increased frequency of cyber attacks have greatly reinforced the vulnerability of networks and the near inevitability of a cyber incident. Staying ahead of phishing, ransomware, and the new wave of sophisticated cyberthreats means addressing vulnerabilities has never been more crucial. The best safeguard is…
Why Cyber Liability Insurance Coverage Just Got Harder to Get
Cyber liability insurance is gaining in popularity as a tool to help companies hedge the financial losses caused by the rising threat of cyber incidents. However, recent changes are making cyber coverage harder to buy. What is the state of…
Log4j Zero-Day Vulnerability: What You Need to Know
On December 9, a critical vulnerability was revealed in Apache’s Log4J, a popular Java open source logging system by developers of web and server applications. The vulnerability affects a broad range of services and applications on servers, making it extremely…
24/7 Network Monitoring — A Critical Piece of the Tech Puzzle
More than ever before, businesses need their networks online and performing 24/7/365. However, due to the inherent frailties of technology components, the increasing likelihood of disruptive weather events, and the near inevitability of a cyberattack, companies — and their networks — are vulnerable. Network monitoring is a critical IT process that…
Multi-Factor Authentication: Simple. Effective. Essential.
When it comes to protecting your corporate data, passwords are the weakest link. Stolen login credentials were responsible for 67% of data breaches in 2020. That’s why multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the gold standard for preventing unauthorized access. Just how…
Four Lessons Learned About Cyber Security and the Remote Workforce
There’s been no single more significant shift in the workforce than that caused by the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Almost overnight, millions of workers left the office to continue their workplace efforts from their dining room tables. While technologies made…
You’ve Got Mail — And It’s the Single Biggest Threat to Your Organization’s Security
Within the focused field of network security, email security is a bit of an outlier, frustrating IT professionals everywhere. Just don’t click on the bad things, right? To put it bluntly, humans are the weakest link in companies’ cybersecurity efforts….
Advanced Endpoint Protection is First Step in Cybersecurity Battle
If we measured cybercrime as a country, it would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China. Just this year, we’ve seen the Colonial Pipeline breach, fallout from the Microsoft Exchange breach, a massive Facebook data leak, and…
When Technology is a Trojan Horse: How Businesses Can Maximize Technology’s Benefits While Minimizing the Risk
Technology has been called a great equalizer, providing tremendous efficiencies that allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to compete with larger enterprises. For example, cloud technologies including SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS level the playing field by providing access to vast…
