A collection of 10 posts
Whether you had a digital transformation strategy that included harnessing the benefits of cloud solutions before the pandemic or not, it’s likely you do now. Enterprises across the globe adjusted to a sudden shift to working from home and its challenges by making the most of what the cloud
When widespread shutdowns related to COVID-19 caused the majority of the workforce to work from home, the virtual private network (VPN) was the unsung technology hero. In place for telework, VPNs had a solid foundation for reliability and made remote work possible. As a temporary fix becomes a more permanent
The high numbers of people in a work-from-home setting has IT teams working to implement software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), secure access service edge (SASE), and artificial intelligence (AI). The end result is that these tools are laying the foundation for an eventual autonomous network. The building blocks of these
As COVID-19 remains a menacing challenge for public health officials and health care workers, the discouraging news of increasing cases and deaths can be overwhelming. It’s good to get a glimpse into efforts around containing and treating the virus, and, ultimately, getting past the pandemic with a vaccine. Across
Long before government employees were forced home by COVID-19, agencies have been considering remote-work settings for employees. Progress was generally impeded by security obstacles. Now that millions of federal employees are working from home, managers are being forced to support their efforts, while securing data and systems. In order to
Disruption resulting from COVID-19 has exposed a number of business continuity issues among enterprises. The gaps in systems and key processes have had a generally negative impact, and it will soon be evident which enterprises saw the circumstances as an opportunity. By exposing what isn’t working, the gaps present
Networking teams are the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Whether it’s health care facilities relying on timely transmission of data or teachers attempting to connect with students, it all depends on the unseen infrastructure of connectivity. For enterprises across the globe sending their employees home for remote work, the
The pandemic has upended how enterprises work, and not the least of all affected is the typical IT security team’s threat model. Many employees have been relocated to a home office during the pandemic, introducing new security challenges related to home networks, as well as all the devices connected
The novel coronavirus and the disease caused by it (COVID-19) are not just increasing toilet paper and hand sanitizer sales; they’re also pushing the pace of enterprise cloud adoption. A survey conducted by Snow Software [https://www.snowsoftware.com/int] included the responses of 250 global IT leaders and
While challenging and uncertain times can pull people together, cyber criminals will use these times to harm others so they can profit. To wit, Anomali, a company that helps companies prevent cyber threats, released a study [https://www.anomali.com/blog/anomali-aggregates-open-source-threat-intelligence-to-fight-covid-19-themed-cyber-attacks] recently that says at least 15 COVID-19-related campaigns