With high-profile data breaches making headlines regularly, compliance is more than just a matter of following industry regulations. It’s a matter of protecting your firm’s reputation and maintaining the trust you’ve built with your clients. Ensuring network compliance using traditional network architecture is tedious at best. Intent-based networking (IBN) offers seamless monitoring, verification and enforcement [...]
Ransomware attacks are on the rise, grabbing headlines on a global stage. In April 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that cyber criminals have already extorted $209 million from companies in just three months. This statistic showed that ransomware was on track to become a billion-dollar crime by the end [...]
Stable networks need it. If you want to have a stable network, you need to have an effective change management process. Why bother? Changes are the most common source of instability in your network. Sure hardware fails now and again, but in the end the most common source of network failures is the hands of those [...]
An October 10, 2011 Network World article titled “Beware of the iCloud” described an enterprise nightmare scenario around Apple’s newly introduced cloud storage service: “You’re at your office Mac, working on a sensitive company document. There’s a copy of the document automatically pushed to your iPad, which a family member borrowed and took to Starbucks. There’s [...]
Consumerization – a term coined in 2001– refers to new information technology emerging first in the consumer market and then spreading into business organizations. The resulting convergence of the IT and consumer electronics industries marks a shift in IT innovation from large businesses to the home. Specifically, more and more people [...]
