Passwords play an important role in authenticating users in an organization. As an IT admin, you’d hope that employees would understand the importance of password management and be more meticulous, but often, that’s not the case. Implementing strong password management …
Were you among those sysadmins who devotedly installed all the updates from this Patch Tuesday? Well, buckle up! You may have to undo a few.
February 11, 2020 was one of the biggest Patch Tuesday update rollouts, with fixes for …
How Chooseus Life Insurance lost its customers’ cardholder details and their trust
In August 2019, reporters began flocking to Chooseus Life Insurance’s head office in Detroit after news leaked that thousands of the company’s customers had lost money due to …
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. Most companies use some type of “as-a-service” solution to optimize output, and this week, we shed some light on the latest …
As part of digital transformation, the adoption of a wide range of devices for work is on the rise. A unified endpoint management (UEM) solution is capable of enforcing management policies and configurations, as well as securing endpoints. In a …
Configurations are an integral part of network devices, and it’s important to keep a watchful eye on these configurations to ensure networks function seamlessly. However, pouring over configurations can be quite a time-consuming challenge and requires continuous manual effort, especially …
This Patch Tuesday, a total of 99 vulnerabilities have been addressed, making the February 2020 Patch Tuesday the biggest yet. As an early Valentine’s gift, Microsoft has provisioned administrators with numerous security and non-security updates to apply to their endpoints. …
Ransomware has been a growing threat in recent years, and experts now estimate the cost of these attacks at $7.5 billion in the USA alone in 2019. The affected institutions include 966 government agencies, educational establishments, and healthcare providers. Since …
The California Consumer Protection (CCPA) act took effect on January 1, 2020, and companies across the globe are scrambling to get their act together to avoid non-compliance penalties.
Although enforcement of the CCPA doesn’t officially begin until July 2020, the …