New Technology Requires New Hires

Organizations Must Invest in Professionals Needed to Ensure Successful Digital Transformation As technology becomes an increasingly essential driver of business success for enterprises around the world, determining how to effectively and securely pursue digital transformation is of critical importance. Organizations must strike the appropriate balance of proactively seeking to deploy new and emerging technologies while… Continue reading New Technology Requires New Hires

Part 1: Best Practices for Managing Enterprise Data Streams

Before big data and fast data, the challenge of data movement was simple: move fields from fairly static databases to an appropriate home in a data warehouse, or move data between databases and apps in a standardized fashion. The process resembled a factory assembly line. In contrast, the emerging world is many-to-many, with streaming, batch… Continue reading Part 1: Best Practices for Managing Enterprise Data Streams

Digital Transformation Provides the Insurance This Sector Needs To Grow

While consumers and many businesses are already enjoying the fruits of digital transformation, the insurance sector can hardly bear it. In many cases, legacy systems leave those in the industry with outdated infrastructures and processes.  Looking to get out of the woods, insurance institutions know now is the time to tame the technology beast and… Continue reading Digital Transformation Provides the Insurance This Sector Needs To Grow

Staying Safe While Browsing the Web: How You Can Help Protect Your Organization

The internet is like a big city with lots of amazing sights and many useful services—but also many shady areas and lurking predators. And the predators don’t necessarily stick to the bad parts of town: sometimes they come out to pick pockets on the nicest boulevards. So far, our Corporate Security Awareness series has looked… Continue reading Staying Safe While Browsing the Web: How You Can Help Protect Your Organization

Why the future belongs to standards

A quick glance at the accelerating technological change over recent years, and the subsequent upheavals, could be enough to make us all fear for the future of the global economy. However, there are good reasons to be hopeful: the rapid changes in today’s interconnected world call for a renewed interest in international standards, making them… Continue reading Why the future belongs to standards

IObit Unveils Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 11 for All-in-One Protection & Deep Optimization

SAN FRANCISCO – IObit, the world’s leading system utilities and security software provider, today announced the launch of its acclaimed program Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 11, a comprehensive utility for PC security and system performance. With the 150% larger anti-virus database and a new anti-ransomware engine, this new edition can help to detect and remove more PC threats.… Continue reading IObit Unveils Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 11 for All-in-One Protection & Deep Optimization

BT4-05 Editorial

What are the top 3 threats to organizations today? According to the 2017 BCI Horizon Scan Report: 1. Cyber attack (e.g. malware, denial of service), 2. Data breach (i.e. loss or theft of confidential information), 3. Unplanned IT and telecommunications outages. These results are unchanged from 2016 results and remain the highest concerns for business… Continue reading BT4-05 Editorial

BT2-01 Editorial

What are the Top-3 threats to organizations today? External threats. The top ones would be cyber/destructive resiliency issues, EMP pulse and nuclear attack on us or allies. I think the internal threats are worse – complacency, insufficient exercising and insufficient supplier resilience.   What areas of BC/DR do you think organizations should be investing in… Continue reading BT2-01 Editorial

BT7-01 Editorial

What are the Top-3 threats to organizations today? Cyber Crime – Insider Remote/Traveling Employee Safety Cyber Crime – External   What areas of BC/DR do you think organizations should be investing in to secure their resiliency for the next 3-5 years? (Where should they put their money?) Vunerability Management Employee Safety and Security Management Geographically… Continue reading BT7-01 Editorial

BT5-04 Editorial

What are the Top-3 threats to organizations today? The top threats that most organizations are currently concerned about are cyberattacks, data breaches, and physical security. However, in reality, organizations face a variety of different types of risks and threats that can take place individually or simultaneously. Managing threats is not getting any easier and as… Continue reading BT5-04 Editorial