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Vendor management and looking beyond SMB firewalls, anti-virus, and data backups

IT Toolbox

I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses. From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers.

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BENNY Awards 2024: Share your picks for the best enterprise networking products

Network World

The Best of Enterprise Networking (BENNY) Awards recognize the most innovative products in enterprise networking and the enterprise data center, including the latest wired and wireless networking technologies, network security products, management tools, storage, servers, and virtualization technologies.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Backup Policy. Firewall Policy. How firewalls are named, configured etc. Firewall Policy. How firewalls are named, configured etc. He has also carried out rule-based auditing for firewall forensics as well as PCI dss audits. . How employees are terminated. How data are backed up. Virus Policy.

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What Business Users Should Do To Mitigate DDoS Threats

CTOvision

Use a DNS firewall to reduce two major issues: 1) users visiting sites known to have malicious code that threatens your enterprise and 2) malicious code inside your enterprise that seeks to beacon out to its controller. We recommend Verisign's DNS Firewall. Have a backup communications plan.

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Ransomware Evolves: Entire Hospital Including Emergency Rooms Disrupted

CTOvision

The typical organization already has firewalls, anti virus solutions, encrypted data solutions, data backups, network monitoring and security information management tools to hold data on how all that is working. How does the ransomware usually get in? This is a good question. Most will also have in place user training programs.

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Continuous Monitoring – Part 2

CTOvision

Backup and recovery, continuity of operations, business continuity, disaster recovery – call it what you will, but a plan will help you to understand what needs protecting, how to protect it, and how to recover when those protections fail. The first thing to do to manage events is to plan! Timing is also very important.

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INE Security Launches New Training Solutions to Enhance Cyber Hygiene for SMBs

CIO Business Intelligence

INE Security advises businesses to secure their network by using firewalls, encrypting data, and regularly updating security software. Regular backups ensure that businesses can recover quickly from ransomware attacks or other data loss incidents. Tip 5: Backing Up Data Regularly Data loss can be devastating for small businesses.

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