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Routine reassessments are an important part of managing your information technology. Here are the things to look at on an annual basis: 1. IT pain points Knowing the answer to this can help you [...]

Cybersecurity efforts are often all about catchup: installing patches that have piled up, updating applications that have reached their end of support date, ensuring antivirus software has the [...]

Americans expect their towns to provide safe drinking water; there are major news stories and investigations when they fail at this. But how many municipalities consider their information [...]

Developing an information security strategy requires addressing the concerns from multiple angles. There are things you need to know; things you need to do; things you need to monitor; and things [...]

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) continues to expand its reach within the manufacturing enterprise. IIoT systems have taken on significant roles in maintenance, inventory management, and [...]

Although clouds have blurred the network boundary, firewalls remain a first line of defense to protect the corporate network perimeter. What should a business look for when selecting a firewall? [...]

What tools do you think of when you think about security? Probably things like your firewall, intrusion detection software, data loss prevention software, antivirus software, a cloud access [...]

Information security is all about keeping unauthorized users from accessing data. Many of the tools that are used to do this, such as firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, are intended to [...]

There are two main aspects to network monitoring: performance and security. Failing to spot potential problems can leave to vulnerable to slowdowns and outages that impact end users as well as [...]

Too often, businesses are reactive in their information security strategy. They put some basic safeguards in place, and then wait for something—an attack—to happen before doing anything else. [...]