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According to a report from  SonicWall, more than 500 million ransomware attacks hit in 2021—up by more than 134% from 2020. These threats aren’t just constant; they’re quick. Hackers steal encrypted valuable files before many organizations even realize a ransomware attack is happening. So, how can you protect your data?

The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated digital transformation initiatives to offer an improved customer experience and personalized services, all while tackling increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats. More than ever, organizations need flexibility to keep pace with business change, but they are often hindered by a sluggish and rigid network infrastructure.

90% of Americans are using their personal devices for work, risking their workplace by accidentally opening access to their company data. Keeping your company and employees safe from cyber-attacks can be done by just following these 5 simple rules.Today, it’s become even more complicated for companies to prevent cybersecurity breaches. That’s why businesses must understand that each employee, intern, and manager all play equal roles in protecting your private business data. A few examples worth mentioning include the Equifax breach which compromised the identity of millions of users and the Yahoo breach that affected essentially every single user of the service.Here are 5 easy ways you can mitigate these risks and start protecting your employees both online and in the office.

When Cisco created the first Security Outcomes Study earlier this year, five key practices emerged as being most critical to successful security programs. But why are these practices so impactful? And what should security leaders do to implement and maintain them? These questions (and more) have been answered in our newly published Security Outcomes Study, Volume 2:

Hackers launched a DDoS attack on a Twitch gaming tournament, leaving a small European country without internet for over a half hour. 

There are plenty of business continuity threats that bring a frown to the faces of those of us in IT. 2021 brought us cold, heat, fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes. It is projected to cost U.S. businesses a collective $13.5 billion in 2022 just from damages associated with flooding. Companies bear many of those costs—insurance and other resources may help—but that doesn’t even take the added expenses of downtime into account.

Chances are, traditional SAN has been part of your lineup for many years—and you’ve likely wondered, “what else is out there?” We've been conducting some in-depth field research and discovered that HCI truly is the way to go.

Trust was historically the barrier to widespread implementation of remote work. That is, employers wondered if they could trust employees to do the right thing when they weren’t in the office, delivering the same level of performance or productivity when faced with the distractions of home. Until recently, working remotely in the comfort of home was perceived as a rare permission or privilege. As part of dealing with the challenges of the past 18 months, people adapted to completely different ways of living, learning and working. That missing trust in employees seems to suddenly be adopted and effectively so. But, trusting remote workers is very different from implicitly trusting the technology they use.

Unitrends Recovery Assurance is an automated testing engine that enables you to perform recovery testing against a single machine or multiple, orchestrated machines in a highly automated fashion. Once configured, the job spins up an isolated environment directly from your backups and executes customized testing, including boot sequencing, machine reconfiguration and application-level scripts to certify workloads performance. In addition to testing, this job can be used for one-click failover, which spins up your most recent tested backups into production according to their orchestrated sequence.

Ransomware gets its name by commandeering and holding assets ransom, extorting their owner for money in exchange for discretion and full cooperation in returning exfiltrated data and providing decryption keys to allow business to resume.

The internet owes a lot to open-source libraries. Without those unpaid programmers who carefully built multiple reservoirs of code, major companies (Apple, Amazon, Google, to name a few) wouldn’t be able to run their most popular applications.

The past 12 months have seen the SMB sector recover from the pandemic-induced shakeup of 2020, with businesses and staff getting used to working in the new normal.

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), like global enterprises, are relying more and more on cloud computing security services to support day-to-day business functions, software development, and even to provide the technology infrastructure companies need to operate.

Technology has evolved rapidly in the last two decades, bringing about new innovations and tools to help us navigate our tech-driven world. While much technological evolution has resulted in tools that help us work, live and navigate modern life with more ease, technology has also opened a widening window of security vulnerabilities that cybercriminals love to exploit.

Do they call it a cloud because the costs are sky high?

How do you stop 20 million cars in their tracks? Or take chicken sandwiches off the menu for an entire country? I’ll give you a hint: it requires neither military action, a team of evil scientists, nor a particularly libertarian fowl population. In fact, all it takes is a group of hackers that could be located anywhere in the world.

It was a typical day for our client, an executive with a U.S. financial services firm that relies on a widely used multi-factor authentication (MFA) mobile app to protect access to email, customer files and other sensitive data. His iPhone kept pinging him with MFA requests to access his email, interrupting him on a day packed with customer meetings. He was annoyed by the intrusion, figuring it was some kind of system error, and rejected each request so he could focus on work.