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Why Every Business Must Conduct an Annual Cybersecurity Assessment
An assessment is essentially a health check of your company’s security environment. Many companies spend lots of money on security technologies, without conducting that crucial security evaluation. Just as we need to establish a regimen to deal with our physical health issues, we need an assessment to understand how to deal with our company’s cyber security issues. You can’t formulate [...]
SD-WAN as-a-Service Taps the Full Power of the Cloud
Moving apps to the cloud is smart, but doing it with a traditional network architecture and complex jumble of hardware devices can ruin the benefits you're trying to achieve. Cloud apps travel long distances, which means you need fast and flexible solutions that keep your data transfers speedy and videoconferences smooth and stutter-free. Users need to access applications from anywhere, [...]
DIY or Managed SD-WAN? A Recent Survey Reveals a Clear Picture
SD-WAN is a transformative technology that has seen rapid adoption by enterprises of all sizes and within diverse industries. The numerous benefits and advantages over traditional networks have been proven, from lowering costs and saving time, to greater network agility and freedom from carrier lock-in. SD-WAN changes the game when it comes to consuming bandwidth and flexibly delivering applications. It [...]
Key Elements Required Beyond Technology for Effective Cybersecurity
Security should hit every touch-point of your business. Beyond firewalls, antivirus, encryption and authentication technologies, there are critical security elements that should be implemented by every business, many of which have nothing to do with technology. Every company should have a clear understanding of where their most valuable assets reside. The management of business workflows, processes, user awareness and technologies, [...]
Virtualizing Networking and Security, With Seamless Orchestration
Virtualization is becoming an increasingly powerful IT solution for combining multiple, dissimilar network and security functions into a single platform and architecture that is easily consumed and software-defined. From the IT perspective within the data center, we see the pairing of distinct capabilities, and the combining of relationships between various IT infrastructure resources. Virtualization and cloud computing have had an [...]
The Software-defined Revolution is Transforming IT: Why You Won’t Succeed Without It
Network services are somewhat new to WANs, as hardware-based appliances represent traditional WAN architecture. These appliances include routers, switches, firewalls, WAN optimizers, load balancers, proxy servers and other single-function devices. For decades, enterprises were accustomed to the plethora of hardware appliances, and their accompanying maintenance and support overhead. Software-defined networking, and more specifically SD-WAN, has changed the game [...]