If your business’ fiscal year starts in January, this is normally the time of year when preliminary work begins for developing forecasts and budgets for the upcoming year. However, COVID-19 has put a big dent in how to go about this. Some organizations continue to be stalled and are waiting for business to return to some form of pre- pandemic.
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that organizations can no longer ignore how technology is fundamentally changing core business functions. Here are 5 ways the cloud has delivered exponential ROI and sustainable growth for small and medium-sized companies. Flexibility and Scalability There is no denying the cloud’s ability to keep organizations agile on multiple levels. Businesses with cloud infrastructure
Three factors played a major role in more than 60% of data breaches last year, according to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Companies across the globe are still falling behind when it comes to preventing these go-to attacks: credential theft, business-email compromise, including phishing, along with human errors. The report also highlights how security tactics for these three
Protelligent talks about making available “Enterprise grade” IT support to the SMB space as if it’s some big deal…what is Enterprise grade? An enterprise is a very large business…think Fortune 500, an organization which often has tens of thousands of employees. At this scale, the firm can justify the cost of a robust IT team, staffed with technical experts on
Cyber threats and attacks used to be about fame, politics, boredom and personal challenge. Now, it’s about ROI. Criminals have evolved and become more strategic – advanced persistent threats (APTs) are here and antivirus protection and traditional firewall port security are no longer enough. Criminals using APTs want data, so the more valuable an organization’s data, the more likely it
As you have probably seen, there has been an increase in the attempts of spammers to entice you and your staff into downloading malicious files. This has come across most recently as emails from financial institutions, payroll providers, and other businesses asking you to download a file from Dropbox. These legitimate businesses would not deliver documents to you via Dropbox,
Survey says? A recent survey of 4,275 global IT security pros was both enlightening … and frightening. Consider the findings of the survey: 57 percent: Felt their organizations were unprotected from sophisticated cyberattacks. 63 percent: Doubted they could stop the exfiltration of confidential information from their systems. 69 percent: Said cyberthreats were falling through the cracks in their systems. 44
In the aftermath of this month’s bug “Heartbleed,” security experts say there is little Internet users can do to protect themselves from this month’s recent discovery of the “Heartbleed” bug that exposes data to hackers. It is all up to website operators to fix, not website users. Researchers have observed advanced hacking groups conducting automated scans of the internet in
You need to evaluate your business’ security posture, and make informed, balanced decisions about protecting yourself from threats to your business. Reduce your risk and achieve Zen for your business with the following safeguards: Secure all entry and exit areas of your organization’s critical data. Border security is top priority. Actively monitor the traffic passing through your data gateways and