Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhat you need to know about storage-as-a-service options to make them work for your organization. Service levels, data protection and upgrade schedules can be the differentiators. By Chris Evans Storage is one of the biggest capital expenditures in the data center. Enterprises are creating and retaining increasing amounts of data, hoping to exploit some potential future value. One scenario to
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesEnterprises can choose from three major approaches to mitigate DDoS attacks on their networks: Buy from an ISP, do it themselves or use a CDN service. By John Cavanaugh Distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks are becoming more common in enterprise networks and are sometimes even combined with ransomware. The main types of DDoS attacks are the following: Volumetric DDoS. This attack crushes devices
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe types of DDoS attacks organizations face have grown and size of these attacks has increased. Expert Michael Cobb explains how to secure systems against common DDoS methods. By Michael Cobb A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service so that genuine users cannot gain access. There are different types of DDoS
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesEnterprises looking to maintain VPN security should focus on proper endpoint security and authentication, VPN server security and documentation for security policies. By John Cavanaugh A virtual private network permits users to create a secure connection to another network over the internet. The VPN concept typically connects an endpoint running VPN client software to a VPN server connected to the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesPre-pandemic, many experts touted VPN’s demise. During the pandemic, VPNs became lifelines for remote workers to do their jobs. Here’s what the future may hold for VPNs. By Terry Slattery The importance of VPNs changed significantly in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic caused massive digital transformation for many businesses and office workers. VPN trends that started prior to the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFor strong network security, many vendors say VPNs don’t cut it anymore. Enter SDP and zero-trust models, which are similar yet offer stricter and innovative security capabilities. By Michaela Goss To create a secure tunnel from one point to another or to make resources invisible to outside threats may seem like scenarios that require magic; in reality, they just need
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFor organizations with remote workforces, VPNs can be an essential part of daily life. This VPN glossary explores the essential terms and phrases that constitute VPN services. By Michaela Goss Enterprises’ embrace of remote work accelerated due to COVID-19, and it likely won’t subside when the pandemic is a distant memory. A staple of remote work is the VPN. With
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA remote access VPN connects remote users from any location to a corporate network. A site-to-site VPN, meanwhile, connects individual networks to each other. By Paul Kirvan Lisa Phifer, Core Competence Remote working has become pervasive in business processes. While remote work, or teleworking, has been around for years — and the technology has become largely standardized — its importance to
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWith so many dangerous threats in the IT landscape, make sure you protect your data backups from the likes of corruption, unauthorized access and leakage. By Paul Kirvan Perhaps the most important objective for a data backup system is to ensure that backed-up data remains exactly the same as the original and hasn’t been compromised. By definition, backup is the process by
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFDM’s IT chief takes us through the challenges of responding to the coronavirus pandemic, and the future opportunities that the changes introduced now present. By Jonathan Young We are all experiencing the dramatic changes that Covid-19 has ushered in and the effect it is having on nearly every area of our lives. While technology has played a significant role in how we
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