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Proactively mitigate cyber attacks

Cybercrime is now an industry that is worth billions of dollars. Hackers use advanced techniques and tools involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to get around security controls and expedite the cyber attack lifecycle. In such a turbulent threat landscape, businesses can no longer afford to sit and wait around for an attack to [...]

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What is Security Posture?

Thought Leadership / Security Posture

An organization’s security posture represents the overall security status of its networks, systems, and procedures. It is a holistic snapshot of your security strengths and vulnerabilities across hardware, software, data, and end users. Understanding and improving your security posture is essential to safeguard your assets, maintain your business reputation, and build the trust of your

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Cut the $hIT Recapped: How to get IT and the business on the same page

Thought Leadership / Business Strategy

Cut the $hIT host and Plow Networks’ COO Bryan Link is joined by Spero Health’s VP of Technology and Director of Operations Chris Rathermal and Chris DeGeorge for this two-part series about getting IT and the business on the same page. Whether on the business or technology side, this two-part series is for you. The

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IT Cost Optimization: What is it and techniques to save

Thought Leadership / Business Strategy

What is IT cost optimization? IT cost optimization is continuously evaluating an organization's technology processes to discover cost-saving opportunities. IT optimization has become crucial to business success as the working landscape has changed. As a result, IT cost reduction processes should be at the center of a business's overall IT strategy.  Examples of IT assets that

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Why IT strategy is just as important as business strategy

Thought Leadership / Business Strategy

In the business world, having a business strategy is a must. Today, IT and business strategies are inseparable, together providing a critical tool in assuring businesses are poised and prepared to deliver value to their employees and clients. What is an IT Strategy? An IT strategy is an integral part of your business strategy that

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Tips for optimizing your Microsoft 365 licensing

Thought Leadership / Microsoft 365

How to optimize your Microsoft 365 usage Microsoft 365 provides a variety of subscriptions based on your organization’s size and requirements. Identifying the right plans will help you to reduce license costs so you're not overpaying for usage you don't need. Apart from this, you can use several methods to optimize Microsoft 365 license usage

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The importance of IT alignment with business strategy

Thought Leadership / Business Strategy

The importance of business and IT alignment When an organization’s business strategy and IT strategy are not aligned, achieving business objectives becomes difficult because the same solutions that were supposed to help can quickly become a burden. What’s worse, the lack of alignment between business and IT can make it nearly impossible to plan technology purchases,

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POTS lines: How they work and modern alternatives

Thought Leadership / Network

The essential guide to POTS The official birthday of the internet was January 1, 1983, and the world’s first smartphone was released in 1994. Since then, we’ve come a long way, building upon traditional phone systems to create the modern phone networks we know and love today. But those old phone systems have been showing their age for

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Top 3 reasons to replace all of your POTS Lines

Thought Leadership / Network

Why companies depend on Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS) First of all, what is POTS? Plain old telephone services, or POTS, have been around in some form since 1876. But by the mid-2010s, many businesses began taking steps to reduce dependency on POTS, partly due to the mass migration to VoIP and partly due to

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How hackers could get into your business

Thought Leadership / Security Posture

Various groups and individuals try to get employees of businesses to install spyware, adware, malware, or viruses on their computing devices, like laptops, notebooks, and desktop computers. These devices are vulnerable because they run complex operating systems that aren’t walled off like mobile devices. Here are some frequented points of entry into company networks. Network

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