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Cyberattack puts provider out of business: 3 lessons learned

June 25, 2014 By David King Leave a Comment

The news came recently that hackers had successfully taken down an entire company with a well-crafted cyberattack. And while the prospect of losing your business to hackers is frightening enough for IT pros, that’s only one of the many serious consequences this incident has for IT.

The IT challenge many forget about

April 14, 2014 By David King Leave a Comment

So let’s see, there’s the cloud, security breaches, bring your own device … what are we forgetting here? Oh, right. Email. That thing that still takes up huge amounts of IT’s time and resources every day. 

Suddenly, everybody’s a cloud expert: What it means for IT

April 9, 2014 By David King Leave a Comment

There was probably a time in your career when you were the only person in the company who had heard the term “the cloud,” let alone had any idea of how it works. But two new surveys show the problem might now be that everyone outside of IT feels like they know it all when […]

Businesses are starting to get spooked by the cloud

April 1, 2014 By David King Leave a Comment

When the Edward Snowden leaks first went public last year, the buzz began almost immediately: Will businesses still trust the cloud knowing that it could easily be subject to snooping? And the answer came just as quickly. Of course they will. Well, now that picture’s been clouded a bit. 

Shadow IT is still a huge problem

February 19, 2014 By David King Leave a Comment

You put a lot of time and effort into making sure your systems are secure and running efficiently. But a pair of surveys show that still might not be enough to stay safe in the face of a growing concern, shadow IT. 

The biggest barriers to data encyrption

February 12, 2014 By David King 1 Comment

Data encryption is on a lot of IT pros’ minds these days. It’s also on a lot of their to-do lists. But when push comes to shove, far too few have taken the plunge and made it a priority. 

The group putting data most at risk: Executives

January 17, 2014 By David King Leave a Comment

Every user has the potential to cause security problems. But when it comes to the worst offenders, the hands-down riskiest group in your workplace is senior managers. 

IT managers take note: Chromebooks have quietly taken off

December 31, 2013 By David King Leave a Comment

With the cloud changing the way most every company does business, there has been a shocking twist in the computer market. Chromebooks, once thought to be a novelty or cheap second-screen option, have taken off in the last year. 

Cloud providers could be gambling with your data

December 17, 2013 By David King Leave a Comment

Symantec recently made an announcement that sent chills down IT pros’ spines: It decided to shutter a cloud backup service.

Does the IT department have a future?

December 17, 2013 By David King Leave a Comment

With the rise of cloud services and open-source in business, there’s an ongoing debate in some companies: What is our IT department really for? 

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