Despite their name, micro and small enterprises are, in fact, big business. According to CGAP, they represent 90 percent of all businesses and 66 percent of all jobs worldwide, and 50 percent of the world’s GDP. Those huge numbers also make small businesses a ripe target for malicious attacks. A recent survey of 5,000 IT… Read more »
Read the ArticleThe cost of ransomware passed $7.5 billion in 2019. That same year the FBI received 1,300 daily complaints about ransomware incidents. These attacks don’t just target a business’s single endpoint. They can infect its entire network in seconds if they can penetrate remote management software. On top of the increasing ransomware threat, businesses are producing… Read more »
Read the ArticleGartner defines edge computing as “a part of a distributed computing topology in which information processing is located close to the edge.” With the continuing explosive growth of connected devices and new applications that require real-time computing power, the use of edge computing will only increase. Edge computing has already changed the way data is… Read more »
Read the ArticleFor IT pros, protecting their business’s remote office and branch office (ROBO) locations against data loss is an absolute priority. That isn’t easy, whether we’re talking retail stores, hotel chains, bank branches, construction sites, or any other industry with remote locations. And it isn’t going to get any easier, with the FBI saying that cybercrime… Read more »
Read the ArticleWhen it comes to business continuity planning—an essential process every business should undertake—recovery objectives are two of your most important metrics. While your recovery time objective (RTO) answers the question “how long can our systems be down?” a recovery point objective (RPO) answers the question “how much data can we afford to lose?” Setting these… Read more »
Read the ArticleData is the lifeblood of business today. And IT pros are, first and foremost, focused on keeping that data secure. After security, backup and disaster recovery is likely next on the IT priority list. Whether the cause is a natural disaster, malicious attack like ransomware, or accidental deletion of data, having a solid backup and… Read more »
Read the ArticleYou never thought it would happen to you. Disaster struck and now your business is in jeopardy because a natural disaster has destroyed all of your equipment. The result? You can’t recover backups, and the data that your business runs on is gone, leaving you to pick up the pieces. This may sound dramatic, but… Read more »
Read the ArticleIt’s been quite a year, 2020. And it isn’t over yet. What with so many natural disasters, like the busiest hurricane season on record and a massive rise in cyberattacks. In fact, DarkReading says there were more cyberattacks in the first half of 2020 than in all of 2019, including a huge rise in ransomware… Read more »
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