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Hurricane Ida recently wreaked havoc on the Southeastern and Northeastern United States. The torrential rainfall totaled more than a foot in some areas and caused the collapse of a highway in Mississippi and widespread flooding in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Category 4 storm has not only impacted the lives of millions, but unfortunately …

Batten Down the Hatches –and the Servers– For Hurricane Season Read More »

As the pandemic lingers, comprehensive research from McKinsey has found that the rise of remote work in advanced economies is an enduring disruption. Not only can it exist without a loss of productivity, but McKinsey estimates that 20-25% of workforces “could work from home between three and five days a week” and that “this …

Mobility to the Max: Managing BYOD in a Work-From-Anywhere World Read More »

The ideas described in this blog also appear in Business Continuity: Where InfoSec and Disaster Recovery Meet, published in the July 2021 edition of Cyber Defense e-Magazine. The frequency and intensity of cyber attacks are finally being recognized widely across media and publicly by governments. Individuals are contemplating the hazards of their personal information …

Safeguarding Business Continuity with InfoSec Risk Analysis Read More »

With Microsoft being one of the major players in the market for both personal and corporate software, their products and services are widely used on a daily basis by millions of people. While the native protection features and options built into Microsoft solutions can provide you some basic assurance and may be sufficient for …

Backup and Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Environments: It’s Not One-Size-Fits-All Read More »

Ransomware attacks continue to be a threat to organizations of all types and sizes. New hits occur on a near daily basis, with the latest incidents including hundreds of touchscreen ticket machines taken offline, and a law firm with dozens of major corporate clients. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) states, “The …

Protecting your Organization Against Ransomware – 5 Essential Components of a Data Protection Plan Read More »

SaaS applications such as Microsoft 365 and Salesforce bring value to organizations of all sizes. Per-user, per-month license fees eliminate the need to make commitments with big, upfront costs. These SaaS applications are enormously popular, as evidenced by Microsoft 365 being used by over a million companies worldwide. Handing off responsibility for physical data …

Cloud Applications Alleviate Headaches – So Should Your SaaS Backup Solution Read More »

The corporate world used to be Windows-centric for its Information Technology (IT) needs, but now we’re well past the point of mixed technology environments. Apple devices now provide IT horsepower for more than 55% employees of small and medium enterprises, driven by Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) and Choose-Your-Own-Device (CYOD) policies. Apple Devices Require Protection and Management …

Do You Think Your macOS and iOS Devices Fully Protected? Think Again Read More »

Alexey Turchanikov, VP, Product Management at Infrascale, shared his thoughts on the importance of protecting data in modern work environments – especially the difference between file sync and true data protection technologies such as data backup.  While both can be beneficial for SMB and mid-market customers, the level of data protection they provide is …

File Syncing Has its Place in Modern Workplaces… but Data Protection Requires Backup (and more) Read More »

Media, business, and IT leaders everywhere are now in the analysis phase of another major cyber-attack. Unsurprisingly, nothing’s new about the ransomware attack method that caused Colonial Pipeline to take its systems offline for about seven days — both its business systems as the target of the attack and its pipeline operations systems as …

It’s Getting Hot in Here: Cyber Attacks Are Forcing Businesses to Take Their Disaster Recovery ‘Temperature’ Read More »