Businesses have a serious problem when it comes to IT. Many IT managers would agree that the speed of technology outpaces their workers’ skills. Boston-based companies are no stranger to this problem. Organizations across the region often find that their current teams lack the knowledge required to keep pace with newer technologies, or they have trouble hiring new employees to fill these needs.
When it comes to cybersecurity, there’s one constant that business leaders can agree on: The threat landscape is ever evolving. As a result, Gartner forecasts that in businesses worldwide will spend more than $124 billion on information security spending in 2019. However, not all organizations have a large budget to spend on protecting their businesses. In the greater Boston area, the business community is focused on putting the right security services into place to help each of their organizations build a solid security foundation. Below are six services we recommend that you consider to build a strong security position.
According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, there have been approximately 11.2 billion records exposed in the more than 8,800 data breaches that have been publicly disclosed since 2005. In 2018 alone, there were more than 1 billion exposed records in that staggering total.
There have been a myriad of myths surrounding cloud computing ever since its inception. Unfortunately, too many decision-makers believe these myths when evaluating a service like Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their backup solution, which can either lead them down a path where they live under a false sense of security or cause them to avoid using AWS due to misconceptions. Below, we will take a look at a few of the myths that surround AWS backup solutions and address them to give you the right information.
In Office 365, administrators have the option to enable an additional layer of security: multi-factor authentication (MFA). This feature allows the IT staff to set two or more verification methods when it comes to user sign-ins and other transactions. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a subset of MFA where the end user is required to provide two methods of verification, as opposed to more. But if you are not sure if you want to go through the trouble of enabling 2FA in your environment, let’s take a look at four reasons that may change your mind.
In 2016, VMWare and Amazon announced a partnership that would make VMWare Cloud available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This partnership brought the capability for organizations to run their software both on their on-premises data centers and on the AWS cloud to create a true hybrid cloud or make it easier to move to the public cloud.
In 2017, Vade Secure reported that ransomware-infected emails rose 6,000 percent. Recent natural disasters have brought business operations down across the globe. Then there are outages that are the result of human error: Someone misconfigures something or enters the wrong command and systems go down.
Research from Gartner shows that nearly 40 percent of all money spent on technology purchases comes from outside of the IT department. Those purchases are known as shadow IT. Most organizations can relate to the problem of shadow IT. Not only does it open the door to security issues, but it can cause conflicts with business critical applications. In addition to these problems, dealing with the issues of shadow IT pulls the IT staff away from projects meant to meet business goals.
At its most fundamental level, a wireless site survey allows you to sift out reliable empirical data concerning Radio Frequency (RF) characteristics at a given location. A solid understanding of these characteristics and the data collected from the survey will likely reveal where any deficiencies are located, as well as areas of channel interference, dead zones, and other problem areas along the network.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers small businesses a number of benefits. There are plenty of Amazon Machine Instances that are preconfigured so a small IT team can quickly spin up a virtual appliance, server, or other computing resource. Like any other cloud service, AWS offers scalability to allow business IT resources to grow on demand and it helps control costs by offering a number of different pricing plans. There are, of course, other benefits that entice small businesses to turn to AWS for a number of their computing needs. However, like any other resource, there are security considerations that you need to make.
The following list outlines five of the most important best practices any small business needs to consider when using AWS in their environment.
