Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs companies look to bring employees back into the office, security teams must consider how to handle security testing due to initial remote work deployments and shadow IT. By Mark Whitehead, Guest Contributor When state governments across the U.S. began issuing shelter-in-place orders over the past couple of months, businesses had to quickly learn how to enable a fully remote workforce for
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesMany organizations have employees working from home, but some may not have taken the security and training precautions that remote work requires. By Robert Sheldon Amazon announced that the company is extending its work-from-home policy until January 2021, continuing a trend that many organizations have adopted since the onset of COVID-19. It’s not clear yet whether other companies will follow
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWith companies continuing work from home for the foreseeable future, Rohit Dhamankar offers home security advice to help security and employees keep company data and employee devices secure. By Rohit Dhamankar, Guest Contributor Having employees connect remotely to your corporate network is not new. Most companies use cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and have some virtual private network (VPN) or remote
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs cloud becomes intrinsic to IT, shifting roles have led to some risks being overlooked. But companies are getting smarter about alleviating cloud cybersecurity threats. By Mary K. Pratt Enterprise IT has more than a decade of experience in cloud computing, yet many organizations still report significant struggles when it comes to securing their cloud deployments. The reasons for the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesExperts offer six tips about how to improve cybersecurity protection and response plans to mitigate the fallout of data breaches and attacks on sensitive information. By Mary K. Pratt Many enterprise security leaders and teams struggle to get the resources needed to prevent data breaches, but the frequency of attacks and consequences of such events continues to rise. Consider some
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCompanies need both detection and prevention cybersecurity tools to effectively keep data and employees safe from attackers. Just one or the other isn’t enough. By Rohit Dhamankar, Guest Contributor We are living in unique times with companies of all sizes and industries shifting to a remote workforce to limit social interaction and help contain the COVID-19 outbreak. For many businesses,
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEven during pandemics, hackers use malware such as ransomware and phishing to exploit an organization’s vulnerabilities. IT security pros discuss how they prevent cyber attacks. By Sandra Gittlen With the coronavirus pandemic well underway, the last thing information security professionals want to deal with are the devastating effects of ransomware and phishing attacks. Many are hoping the steps they have
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBased on our top 10 most-read stories of 2019, IT pros sought to learn the benefits of virtualization, as well as the drawbacks, as the technology gained ground. By Mike Gleason When an organization decides to pursue a virtual desktop solution, a host of questions awaits it. Our most popular virtual desktop articles this year highlight that fact and show
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesBest practices, tips for designing a hyper-converged infrastructure to support virtual desktops for remote workers in today’s coronavirus-accentuated, work-from-home environment. By Kurt Marko HCI and VDI have historically gotten along well together. In fact, one of the first and still popular use cases for hyper-converged technology is as a work-from-home infrastructure platform for serving virtual desktops to remote users, the
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA zombie server is a physical server that is running but has no external communications or visibility and contributes no compute resources; essentially, it consumes electricity but serves no useful purpose. Posted by: Margaret Rouse Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn Zombie servers are often created because user-requested applications end up getting no use or almost no use (typically defined as under six percent). Other causes include redundant or legacy applications and services that have been replaced. An estimated one in three
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