A bill banning U.S. government use of Dahua and Hikvision products made in China was passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by the President on August 13.
The relevant clause in the 1,300-page NDAA defense appropriations bill states: Continue reading
Instead of viewing regulatory compliance as a burden, Forbes Insights research suggests that it can be harnessed to actually aid business. Accordingly, they offer three ways organizations can benefit from compliance activities…
Think Ahead
Companies need to develop informed positions about how long it will take for concepts to be executed and how laws might evolve by the time they’re ready to take concepts to market. Waiting until later could mean investing in concepts that can’t be deployed because the regulatory environment or technologies have shifted. Regulatory compliance in areas such as security or data privacy protection can even become a competitive differentiator.
DataLink technology partner Barracuda Networks has announced key findings from a new research survey of global IT stakeholders to capture their experiences and attitudes about the current state of email security.
The study, 2018 Email Security Trends, includes responses from 634 executives, individual contributors and team managers serving in IT-security roles in the Americas, EMEA and APAC. A wide range of questions captured hard data about ransomware, phishing and other threats, as well as the related business impacts, prevention efforts and email-security capabilities most beneficial for stopping attacks.
Cyber attacks against businesses and governments are becoming ever more sophisticated. For example, criminals and state actors are now employing proprietary encryption techniques to mask their attacks within system memory where the weaponry may be exposed for only 100 nanoseconds. Many legacy firewalls and anti-virus solutions are unable to effectively identify and mitigate this kind of attack within such a short timespan. Continue reading
With voice, data and video running across your IT environment, you need always-on, high-speed voice, broadband, and AV connections.
DataLink experts simplify the networking challenge by providing: Continue reading
The need to keep pace with your users’ PCs, laptops, and mobile devices, as well as the constant updates they need – while dealing with unrelenting IT security threats – has placed enormous strains on businesses of every size.
To keep up with all of their daily IT demands, businesses are turning to an easier, more economical support model – “DaaS” or Desktop as a Service. Continue reading
Aruba, a DataLink partner, offers an innovative security framework that helps mobile businesses reduce risk in today’s changing threat landscape.
Aruba’s Secure Fabric provides 360 degrees of analytics-driven attack detection and response from the edge to the core to the cloud. The fabric not only simplifies security, it enables network and security professionals to respond faster to cyber attacks, minimizing the impact of a breach.
Don’t let your business fall behind… No matter what your IT challenge, you can get all the support you need from DataLink. Whether you choose Co-Managed or Turnkey support, we keep your IT reliable, secure, and available… Continue reading
If your business relies on Microsoft Office 365, it is absolutely critical that you avoid the unnecessary hazards of data loss. What you may not know is that even though Microsoft hosts the infrastructure, it is your responsibility to maintain a backup of your Office 365 data, including email, with a robust third-party backup solution. Continue reading
Facebook continues to deal with the fallout from its own data security failures that have put the personal information of its users into the hands of third parties – some of whom have exploited that information for unethical purposes.
For users of Facebook and other social media who are concerned about such breaches of trust, it might be insightful to learn exactly what kind of personal information is tracked and harvested every day by these behemoths. Continue reading
