It only costs a criminal about $5 to launch a 300-second DDoS attack against you — but the crippling effects can last much longer. That’s why rethinking your approach to network security and network monitoring is the key outsmarting the criminals and protecting your enterprise — no matter the threat....
Published: Nov 20, 2018
AD security is crucial to controlling risk and ensuring compliance Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of identity and access management (IAM) at most organizations and, as such, is probably the most crucial technology on the network.
User accounts in particular are important for security but are difficult to...
Published: Apr 30, 2020
The challenges with managing accounts in Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD are many and varied.
With the frantic pace of today’s business world, organizations struggle to keep up with requests to create, change and remove access to their on-premises AD. This scenario becomes even more complicated when you mix...
Published: Apr 30, 2020
Throughout this book, a number of conventions have been used to help highlight important points, provide supporting evidence, or advise you of our obvious bias. Look for the following conventions:
Real-world example
Facts and figures
Techie alert
Useful tip
Blatant sales pitch
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Published: Apr 30, 2020
Target, test, analyze, and report on security vulnerabilities with pen-testing
Pen-Testing is necessary for companies looking to target, test, analyze, and patch the security vulnerabilities from hackers attempting to break into and compromise their organization's data. It takes a person with hacking skills...
Published: Jun 18, 2020
The threat landscape is dramatically different than it was just 5 years ago. A traditional web application firewall (WAF) was once a very effective solution for mitigating application layer attacks, but now has trouble keeping up with the advanced capabilities and agility of attackers. Signatures often lag behind new exploits....
Published: May 10, 2019
For the longest while, the mantra that business leaders and IT executives used to describe how well-run IT functions should perform was that they should perform like a utility. By that they meant that IT services should have the same availability, reliability, performance and invisibility as other utilities such as electricity....
Published: Jan 20, 2016
The average person uses 36 cloud-based services every single day. Now it’s up to IT operations teams, along with their SaaS vendors, to ensure these applications perform flawlessly.
Read the new eBook Best-in-Class SaaS Performance to uncover:
Three reasons for the pain behind the gain
What...
Published: Oct 31, 2019
Digitization has undoubtedly changed the way companies do business with their customers, partners and employees. It has also impacted the way IT and applications teams monitor business activities with a renewed focus on the end user’s experience. This white paper addresses the difference between common end-user experience...
Published: Apr 23, 2019
Support for Windows XP ends on 8 April 2014. Those still using XP have three options; do nothing, purchase custom support, or migrate to Windows 7 or 8. Here we consider the three options and their implications.
Published: Aug 13, 2013
When apps run efficiently, employees are more likely to use them.”
The promise of unified communications (UC) is that it is supposed to increase efficiencies and make internal operations more seamless. But that only happens when it’s working properly.
According to Robin Gareiss, president and founder...
Published: Oct 26, 2016
Inside, over 500 pages of Linux topics are organized into eight task-oriented mini books that help you understand all aspects of the latest OS distributions of the most popular open-source operating system in use today.Linux All-in-One For Dummies covers topics such as getting up and running with basics, desktops, networking,...
Published: Aug 16, 2019
You can’t stop your users connecting to Wi-Fi networks. But you can protect them — and your business — when they do.
Sprint Secure Wi-Fi is a “smart VPN” app that protects smartphone and tablet users, whenever they connect to Wi-Fi networks. It’s the only solution...
Published: Mar 29, 2019
If the mandate to deliver faster, cheaper, better infrastructure hasn’t come yet, it will – and soon. And many IT pros are turning to network virtualization to achieve this modern network.
Learn why your enterprise’s hardware-centric philosophy won’t take you far, and how to prove to everyone...
Published: Oct 21, 2016