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 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
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: 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: 3 minutesSANs usually aren’t configured to allow remote management. Find out what storage admins can do during the COVID-19 crisis to ensure their organization’s SAN can be managed remotely. By Brien Posey When an organization’s workforce needs to go remote, such as during the current coronavirus crisis, storage administrators must be ready to work from home, too. After all, businesses are
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesResearch shows that business email compromise attacks continue to proliferate as threat actors continue to see success. Here are a few ways to protect your company. By Justin Brecese For a company victimized by a business email compromise (BEC), discovering missing funds or inappropriate financial transactions can, at first, be like following a very confusing trail of breadcrumbs. Victim organizations
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesYour organization likely saw big changes in IT processes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Explore the backup and recovery shifts you should expect to remain. By Krista Macomber The COVID-19 pandemic shifted most companies to operating remotely nearly overnight. IT was forced to adapt just as quickly, especially when it came to backup and recovery processes. In fact,
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCOVID-19 has become a serious global threat and is rapidly becoming an issue for business continuity. Pandemic planning can help mitigate disruptive effects of disastrous events. By Paul Kirvan On its face, a communicable disease may not be considered a major threat to IT, but the novel COVID-19 has demonstrated the wide-ranging havoc a pandemic can wreak. Each day the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCOVID-19 has many organizations shifting gears when it comes to pandemic planning, and SMBs are no exception. For small companies, adaptability is the key to recovery. By Paul Kirvan Businesses of all sizes have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with smaller organizations facing their own particular struggles. SMBs are often working with fewer employees, resources and customers than
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On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, China. ‘Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2’ (SARS-CoV-2) was confirmed as the causative agent of what we now know as ‘Coronavirus Disease 2019’ (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread to more than 100 countries, including South Africa.
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