One of the greatest advantages of the dark web is the anonymity and encryption it offers while allowing users to access everything on the world wide web. This also makes it the hotbed of some of the most notorious cyberattacks. Much of the dark net’s activities are focused around marketplaces that offer ammunition, pornography, drugs, […]
ManageEngine Desktop Central: Desktop & Mobile Device Management Software
Do You Need an Easy Way to Manage Your Organization’s Desktops & Mobile Devices?Introducing ManageEngine Desktop Central – Desktop & Mobile Device Management Software.Desktop Central is a unified endpoint management solution that helps you manage your servers, laptops, desktops, smartphones & tablets from a central location.Download Your 30-Day Trial at manageengine.optrics.com/DesktopCentral and then discover how […]
Single sign-on (SSO) for the cloud
Nearly every organization has some cloud-based application. Of course the common cloud apps include Microsoft Azure, Office 365, G Suite, those from Zoho and Salesforce, and more. As administrators, we want to make our jobs more efficient and we also want to reduce the load on our users whenever possible. Now with ADSelfService Plus, you […]
Phishing Canadian Targets
We have recently blogged about KrebsOnSecurity’s story on compromised Canadian business email addresses. Here is some updated background on threats to Canadian organizations.Since January 2019, nearly one hundred phishing campaigns have been tailored specifically for Canadian targets, according to researchers at Proofpoint.Attackers are spoofing a number of well-known Canadian companies and organizations, and are using […]
Why Half of Companies Are Raising Their DDoS Defense Budgets
DDoS attacks are only becoming more destructive, and companies know it: That’s why one-half (49 percent) of the 200+ respondents in the 2018 IDG DDoS Report anticipate their organizations’ DDoS defense budgets to increase.But why are so many companies willing to invest precious resources on DDoS defense? Let me explain.Just How Much Are Companies Spending […]
Record fines come on the heels of warnings about cyber risk
Record fines come on the heels of warnings from US Intelligence warning of a growing risk to our utility providers. Similar warnings have been issued for law firms, higher education, and small businesses, so this information is relevant to a wide spectrum of organizations who may need to review how they are protecting their data […]
Secure Application Delivery for Hyper-Converged Infrastructures
Today, every organization is undergoing digital transformation. Digital transformation will enable organizations of all sizes compete by using the right technology to drive innovation and time-to-market. Key to this is using the right hardware and software to simplify enterprise IT infrastructure, reduce cost and deploy innovative solutions that drive growth.Organizations have a lot of options […]
Are your Application Programing Interfaces (API) Secured?
Today we delve into the world of Application Programing Interface or “API” security. These interfaces are typically used to share information between applications, such as a CRM like Salesforce and mobile applications that your sales team may want to use. These are sets of tasks and instructions prebuilt into Salesforce that you can ‘call’ to […]
How Expensive is Effective Cybersecurity?
There is almost no limit to how much you could spend on cybersecurity solutions, and with Gartner estimating global spend on security is equal to about 1.5% of worldwide revenue – does that mean that effective cybersecurity has to be expensive? And what is “expensive”? Surely that is different for an SMB client than a […]
KPIs to monitor for optimal SQL Server performance
As you may know, Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. Several industries rely on SQL database servers for data storage and access because it supports a wide range of transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications in corporate IT environments. To have a fine-tuned SQL Server system, a […]