ITBE Staff

Traditionally, most disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity projects have been triggered by a recognition that natural and manmade disasters can strike at any time. Events like the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and numerous other high-profile disasters have highlighted the vulnerability of corporate infrastructure and data to damage or […]

Businesses fail. Research indicates that over 50 percent of new firms fail within five years, and 75 percent are gone within 10 years after that. So what is different about the firms that survive? They are successful in recreating themselves, in continuing to engage entrepreneurial thinking on an equal footing with strategy. In other words, […]

Over the last few years, companies around the globe, in every industry, have seen their sensitive internal data lost, stolen or leaked to the outside world. High-profile leaks, like that of Edward Snowden, made headlines and struck fear into many companies worried that disgruntled employees could walk off with documents or data that would result […]

The Internet is built around routers, yet there has been little innovation in routing itself for decades. Early networks mainly involved just packets and flows within private networks. With the rapid expansion of the Internet in the 1990s, the first round of modifications focused on improving “speeds and feeds” through specialized hardware. The router of […]

To understand the impact that open source technology has made on the enterprise, one need only look to the numbers. With over 35 million GitHub repositories, 1,961,460 lines of code on Hadoop and over a thousand Apache Spark contributors, the open source ecosystem is home to some of the world’s most innovative and impressive tech […]

With countless cyber threats impacting today’s enterprises (ransomware, malvertising and malware, oh my!), security professionals have never been more valuable to their organizations. Unfortunately, the cybersecurity industry is facing a major shortage of expertise, with industry estimates suggesting more than one million unfilled security jobs exist worldwide. According to analyst firm ESG, 83 percent of […]

According to IDC, there will be 44 zettabytes of data in the world by 2020. That number might make a splashy headline, but it presents an entirely different challenge for organizations that will be tasked with storing, analyzing and utilizing this data. Companies are collecting more data, in varying types and sizes, from more sources […]

There are plenty of good reasons for outsourcing IT operations to a service provider, but doing so comes with inherent risk. Today’s organizations are entrusted with customers’ financial data and other sensitive information, so it’s never been more important to carefully evaluate potential service providers. A lot is at stake when it comes to IT […]

For most organizations, it’s no longer a question of if they will use cloud, but rather how to best use the cloud. Cloud is a staple for many enterprise IT strategies and from the looks of things only stands to become more important in years to come. According to Gartner, spending on public cloud servers […]

The world of health care has been drastically transformed through the development of electronic systems used to transmit data between physicians, diagnostic clinicians, lab techs and other practitioners. Although they have advanced patient care, these systems also make securing of protected health information (PHI) far more complicated than the old “lock and key” approach. Although […]

There are many questions a CEO must answer, one of the biggest being, “How prepared are you to fend off a cyber attack?” According to the 2015 Global Cybersecurity Status Report from ISACA, only 38 percent of global organizations feel they are prepared for a sophisticated cyber attack. Companies need to be more proactive in […]

Spammers are increasingly relying on high-targeted messages for financial gain, tricking businesses into either transferring funds or releasing sensitive information on employees. Since the beginning of the year, Cloudmark has seen a dramatic increase in text-only, email impersonation attacks known as Business Email Compromise (BEC). The volume of BEC prompted the FBI to issue an […]