MSPs that support their customers’ remote/branch office (ROBO) environments face all kinds of challenges. Keeping ROBO environments—the network edge—secure from ransomware and other cybersecurity threats isn’t easy. These offices are typically far from the IT teams that support them and rarely have any technical staff on hand. Then there are the nearly 305 million ransomware… Read more »
Read the ArticleMarketWatch notes that the global network-attached storage (NAS) market will grow at an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 28 percent between 2021 and 2027. Much of that market growth can be attributed to the massive increase in data generated by organizations everywhere. That isn’t much different from the global projections for the… Read more »
Read the ArticleThe orders came straight from the top. The President’s May 2021 announcement of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity directed the federal government to bring the “full scope of its authorities and resources to protect and secure its computer systems, whether they are cloud-based, on-premises, or hybrid.” That includes ensuring federal information systems… Read more »
Read the ArticleThere are plenty of things to think about when looking at public cloud services. With this comparison of its services—mapped to similar offerings from other cloud service providers (CSPs)—Google Cloud has done a lot of the work for you. The list of services is incredibly long, but what stands out are the areas where Google… Read more »
Read the ArticleSmaller businesses are bearing the brunt of ransomware attacks. That’s the headline in a Forbes article summarizing a recent Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. Citing testimony from Justice Department Criminal Division Deputy Attorney General Richard Downing, cybercriminals don’t even need to create ransomware anymore now that licensed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has arrived on the (crime) scene. The… Read more »
Read the ArticleRansomware constantly makes the headlines these days. This week, Sinclair Broadcasting saw its systems taken down, with one Sinclair reporter quoted as saying, “still no phones, file video or graphics” three days after the attack. The company’s stock dropped nearly 3 percent that day. We don’t know how the ransomware wiggled its way into Sinclair… Read more »
Read the ArticleDisaster recovery (DR) has one purpose: get your business back up and running while keeping data—and dollar—losses to a minimum. Cyber-recovery is about your business’s very survival, focusing on maintaining the minimum data, applications, and infrastructure that are essential for keeping things moving. That translates into prioritizing speed and availability for DR, while cyber-recovery focuses on security and data integrity.
Read the ArticleYour organization likely keeps an eye on every budget dollar carefully. But there’s one cost that usually only gets accounted for after the fact: downtime. It doesn’t matter if it’s caused by ransomware, a cybersecurity breach, hardware failure, or natural disaster, every minute of downtime can be costly. Hourly downtime costs can run from hundreds… Read more »
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