How to Reduce Public Cloud Cost Using Dynamic Resource Optimization
When it comes to the public cloud, one of the challenges businesses face is in optimizing the costs associated with it. While it’s true that businesses can experience cost savings by using the cloud, this is only possible if businesses know how to manage their resources. One of the most . . .
High Performance Computing on AWS
Amazon is a leader and innovator in High Performance Computing (HPC) with it's Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The goal of the platform is to allow scientists, engineers, and businesses of all sizes the ability to solve difficult problems using their platform. Those using AWS are able to make quicker . . .
Password Security – Still an Issue in 2016
InformationWeek’s publication Dark Reading is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year. In honor of their decade of information security reporting, Dark Reading published an article titled Epic Security #FAILS Of The Past 10 Years. The article comments that it is “2016, and we’re still talking about how lame passwords . . .
Hacking, Cybercrime, and Losing Intellectual Property
This month, InformationWeek published an article under its information security community site, DarkReading. Titled, 6 Shocking Intellectual Property Breaches, the article takes a look at one of the darker sides of cybercrime. When major hacks and breaches of security occur, usually it is for access to personal financial information (bank . . .
Enterprise Antivirus as a Means for Enhanced Security
Most personal computer owners have some antivirus application installed. There is an array of options available for purchase, and often operating systems have their own native antivirus applications or these programs are offered along with a service contract with an internet service provider. For businesses, antivirus is an imperative part . . .
The Benefits of Managed IT Services Over The Summer
For many companies the summer month often mean a slow-down in activity. Employees take longer vacations, client requests tend to slow down, and businesses will often see an increase in work-from-home requests. It’s understandable why. For many states, the summer is a short-lived period of sun and warmth and so . . .
Security’s Weakest Point and Highest Threat: Human Error
When it comes to cyber security, many organizations focus on the big, tangible items. Are there firewalls in place? Does each workstation, laptop, mobile device, and server in the office have anti-virus software installed? Are company emails encrypted and does the email system offer anti-spam and anti-phishing filtering capabilities? These . . .
Managed IT Services and Cloud Deployments
More and more businesses are realizing the flexibility, elasticity, and cost saving opportunities that the cloud provides. As such, companies are moving from on-premise IT environments to the cloud at increasing rates. Many major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have plenty of documentation and tools . . .
IT Security Vulnerabilities Hiding Around Your Office
A managed IT services provider does more than just manage your IT networks. From helping you to select hardware and software for your business to optimize business processes, to assisting with moving operations to the cloud, a managed IT provider can assist with multiple aspects of your business’s digital life. . . .
How Secure Is The Cloud?
There is a lot of debate these days over the security of the cloud. Many businesses have been apprehensive about making the move to the cloud, for fear of not having control of their data like they do in-house. However, the truth of the matter is that the cloud is . . .
Protection Against Account Hijacking With Managed IT Services
The website Hackmageddon features statistics and historical data on cyber-attacks. On reporting statistics for March 2016, the site noted that although 32.6% of attacks in that month were of unknown origin, the highest ranking segment among known attack vectors was account hijacking, with 20.7% of cyber-attack cases reported as being . . .
