When you read in the headlines that some of the biggest enterprises are victims of hackers infiltrating their networks to steal data, you may wonder how your enterprise could ever stand a chance. The answer, for enterprises of all sizes, is virtual private networks (VPNs). A VPN allows you to create a secure connection to another network through the internet. It serves a variety of purposes, but most enterprises value its ability to shield and protect data as it is in transfer to another … [Read more...]
The Data Security Approach That Offers Long Term Protection
Data security has long been a priority for companies of all sizes. No matter how big or small, cyber crime doesn’t discriminate against any targets. The way data is protected continues to evolve with the ever-changing methods cyber criminals use to gain access to systems. From backing up data to closing the gaps that represent vulnerabilities, constantly updating the approach to safety is a smart move. The Importance of Encryption Encrypted data isn’t much use to thieves. Should they … [Read more...]
Moving Forward With Digital Transformation
Most enterprises are pursuing digital transformation, harnessing volumes of data through cloud solutions and responding more quickly to customer preferences. For each enterprise that successfully moves through initiatives to achieve improved agility and scalability in their business processes, there may be a line of unsuccessful transformation stories from similar enterprises. What’s the difference between enterprises that nimbly move through a digital transformation and those that get stuck … [Read more...]
Don’t Begin Digital Transformation Without This
Pursuing digital transformation is almost a given in the cloud era, but there are still some organizations failing to see the importance of offering a superior customer experience or the impact of disrupting business processes for improved productivity. The fallout is potentially serious: in a recent Couchbase survey, respondents said that businesses that fail to embrace digital transformation may not even be in existence in the next two to four years. In a push to avoid this fate, companies … [Read more...]
Four Benefits of an Enterprise Data Layer
No matter what industry you’re in, innovation is a key part of staying current and answering the needs of your customer. There is always the threat that someone will develop a product or service more relevant and more updated that will make you irrelevant. One of the important steps you can take to improve your agility, reliability and speed to market is the introduction of an enterprise data layer. The complex business landscape demands that you remove all possible obstacles to innovation. … [Read more...]
Building a Solid Disaster Recovery Process
Cyber criminals have sophisticated attack strategies, and they don’t care how large or small your organization is — they’ll come after your data. When IT professionals and executives think about the disaster recovery process, it’s usually in the same thought that involves getting hacked. However, the disaster recovery strategy your organization establishes must take all threats into account. Hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more intense. Other types of natural disasters that can hit … [Read more...]
Six Steps for Securing UCaaS
The benefits of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) are making it an attractive choice for enterprises upgrading their systems. From scalability to innovative collaboration tools as well as a single app to access all communication formats, there are many good reasons to invest in the technology. From video conferences brainstorming strategic objectives to negotiations with a customer via voice call, enterprises are transmitting large amounts of data that makes their organization … [Read more...]
Five Tips for Reducing Big Data Architecture Complexity
Big data provides a flood of information to enterprises, but it requires a high level of processing and analysis to be useful for detecting customer behavior patterns or inventory backorder problems. For many organizations, big data holds a lot of promise, but the necessary architecture creates new complexity. Big data architecture is designed to handle the flow of data that’s too large and complex for a regular database, but over time this architecture has introduced its own level of … [Read more...]
A Better Strategy for Successful Incident Response
The best incident response strategies take a multi-pronged approach that accounts for all the factors leading up to and dealing with incidents. From hiring the right staff to deploying the right tools and everything in between, what are you doing to improve your strategy? 1. Know Your Objective Without clearly defined roles, team members aren’t going to know what direction they need to be going for proper incident response action. You must make sure each team member is aware of the priorities … [Read more...]
Data Security Tips for Protecting Your Organization
We’re at a point now with data security that it takes an “all hands on deck” approach to keep an organization safe from cybercriminals. In some cases, it’s not even the outside threats that are the danger — it’s simple housekeeping items that are forgotten that lead to security issues. Too many examples are out there today that prove how a cybersecurity incident can be detrimental to an organization. And the examples span many industries, so it’s not like cybercriminals are interested in only a … [Read more...]