With so many people working from home, the perimeter of corporate data safety has suddenly grown very large, in many cases encompassing employee home computers. Data loss prevention (DLP) was challenging enough already, but now it takes on even more importance. One way that data can escape the corporate network is by getting copied to USB thumb drives. Some companies take the approach of gluing or epoxying the USB ports closed.
Coronavirus is changing everything. But amid all the talk of shut-downs, quarantine, and stock market crashes, another huge impact of the current crisis has been a little overlooked: it’s consequences for cybersecurity. With hundreds of thousands of employees now working from home – in the US, Europe, and all over the world – many companies have had to rapidly put in place systems for them to connect their home devices to corporate networks.
Your website is an extension of your business. In some cases, your website is what people use as their first impressions of your business. Visitors to your site expect it to work correctly and provide a positive customer experience. When things are working correctly, people are more likely to spend time exploring your site to learn about your business, your products, and your services. They may even register an online account if you offer this feature.
Has your phone gone in the middle of the night when your boss is calling because the server is down? Maybe you wake up to a tone of text messages that something is wrong with the server? If you have encountered this, then you know the importance of monitoring your server so that you are not the last to know when there is a problem. Part of server monitoring is putting best practices in place to ensure you are prepared for the unexpected.
As more and more businesses move their servers to the cloud, it makes it more difficult to monitor the status of networks and other such events typically tracked and monitored in traditional in-house server environments. In recent years, companies have turned to a wide array of hybrid multi-cloud monitoring tools.
Windows file server auditing is a great way to monitor what is going on with all the files stored on your company’s servers. You can find out who is accessing files, creating new files, deleting files, copying files, and moving files. To tap into the benefits of Windows file server auditing, you must first understand and use audit policy best practices.
With Internet Explorer on the brink of death and its Edge browser close to it with a 4% share of the user base, Microsoft has finally completed the shift of the software’s rendering engine to Blink, the foundation for Google Chrome. This makes Edge one of the latest in a growing family of Chromium based web browsers. But what does this mean for Windows users — and what special features of the new Edge are worth knowing about? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this article.
Used effectively, team collaboration platforms like Trello and Slack can give a real boost to productivity, for organizations that routinely run projects requiring group input. With email, video, or direct messaging tools, these platforms make it easy for team members to stay in touch – regardless of the time, or their physical location.
Abbreviated from the names of its developers – Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan – Awk is a scripting language used in Unix or Linux environments for manipulating data and generating reports. The awk command programming language requires no compiling, and allows the user to employ variables, numeric functions, string functions, and logical operators. In this article, we’ll be looking at some examples demonstrating its many and diverse uses.
