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“The Hosted Private Cloud - Advanced Access solution will give us the performance, control, and flexibility we need in a cloud environment without running the infrastructure. This allows my team to focus their efforts on projects that improve the customer experience and our profitability.” “The Hosted Private Cloud - Advanced Access solution will give us the performance, control, and flexibility we need in a cloud environment without running the infrastructure. This allows my team to focus thei...
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This is not a dress rehearsal: What critical infrastructure owners and operators can do right now to defend against nation-state threats

Grid modernization has created a complex ecosystem of network-connected equipment, exposing utilities to a wide range of potential threats from nation-states, criminals, disgruntled employees, and accidental misconfiguration. The energy sector is particularly vulnerable to cyberattack because core cybersecurity strategies—like the use of SPAN ports to direct bulk network data to security analysis systems and physical air gaps to separate the Operational Technologies (OT) network from the rest o

Planning Ahead: Incident Readiness vs. Business Continuity

Is your organization prepared? Cyberattacks on small and medium businesses (SMBs) are becoming more impactful and frequent thanks to bad actors around the globe, and that’s not all. Business interrupting data incidents are rising via insider attacks, corporate espionage, volatile weather events, and more. From costly downtime to business shutdown, SMBs pay the price for unchecked incidents in the form of dollars, lost market share, damaged reputation, or worse, complete loss of business. From m
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5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay

5 Emerging Procurement Trends That Are Here to Stay The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across trade, education, government, healthcare, and more. And within almost every industry, the procurement department was left to solve unsolvable problems. Long-standing systems for balancing supply and demand fell apart, most visibly in the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) that frontline healthcare workers needed to protect themselves and others during the crisis. In non-healthcare fields, ma
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Every Season is Hurricane Season When it Comes to Protecting Your Data: The Top 3 Causes of Data Loss in Business

Hurricane season in the U.S. reminds organizations of all shapes and sizes to review – and test – their IT disaster recovery (DR) plans, from securing temporary office space on higher ground to protecting their most precious commodity, their data. The bad news? The greatest threats to your company’s business continuity – including your data – aren’t isolated to July through November. Critical infrastructure can go down any time of year, for reasons ranging from power outages and network failure
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Why Aren't More SMEs Using Multi-Factor Authentication?

Cyberattacks against companies large and small are on the rise as hackers engineer new ways to access and steal data. From ransomware to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), two facts are particularly concerning: • Leveraged credentials, most often passwords, cause sixty-one percent of data breaches. • Nearly half of all cyber-attacks target small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are less equipped to recover from damages. Because SMEs inherently lack the cybersecurity resources of large
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Balancing Data Resiliency with Data Recovery

Note: This is Blog 2 in our 5-part series on disaster recovery. Click here to read , “Every season is hurricane season when it comes to protecting your data” Downtime caused by man-made and natural IT disasters costs an organization an estimated , and that doesn’t include losses of productivity, and market share. Further, a recent University of Texas study revealed that 94% of companies that lose their systems for 10 days or more due to a disaster don’t survive: 43% are forced to close immediat
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DRaaS vs. Disaster Recovery: 3 Things to Know

The loss of data due to an attack or natural disaster can devastate companies’ finances and reputations – and even force some to close their doors. As a result, many businesses are sharpening their focus on business continuity, and they’re weighing whether they should invest in an on-premise Disaster Recovery (DR) solution or work with a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provider. So how to decide? Start by knowing these three things about DR and DRaaS: Disaster recovery (DR) is your syst
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