There was a term that used to be widely used in the IT industry. That term was “security through obscurity.” “Security through obscurity” was the idea that people who were interested in hacking into a company or stealing data would only be interested in going after the big guys. Companies like Walmart, Target, Equifax, etc……… Continue reading →
You might think, “My phone system is working, that’s all that really matters.” But in today’s business environment, that’s simply not true! Thinking all you need is a dial tone could be preventing your business from communicating effectively both internally AND externally. If you’re still using a legacy PBX system, your phones aren’t meeting the…… Continue reading →
We realize that the idea of a ‘Self-driving’ WAN could seem like science fiction. But if you think of the visions propelling companies like Google, Tesla and Amazon, you can begin to realize how big an impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have in the next few years, both on our personal lives—and the way IT…… Continue reading →
If you’ve been doing Wide Area Networking (WAN) for as long as we have you know that Voice is perhaps the least-forgiving application as it relates to outages. For example, say you have multiple circuits, and the primary circuit experiences a failure; traditional WAN routing will simply not switch over fast enough to keep a…… Continue reading →
2017 Security Forecasts As technology continues to change at the rate of lightning speed, it’s no surprise cyber security is a growing concern. But according to 2017 technology trend forecasters, security isn’t just an increasing issue – it’s THE issue. Niel Nickolaisen, Chief Technology Officer at O.C. Tanner Co., forecasts cyber security as an IT…… Continue reading →
Many IT directors spend their days fielding various requests from the business staff their teams support: That marketing rep who accidentally deleted a whole series of important files and wants to know if they can be retrieved immediately That operations guy who is constantly streaming the latest viral videos, chewing up large amounts of bandwidth…… Continue reading →
