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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

Grant Thornton’s partnership with Microsoft began when the firm scuttled its Mitel VoIP phone systems in favor of Skype for Business in 2016, just as Swift took over as CIO. It will also save the firm a bundle on hardware costs. Navigating the pandemic. Work from anywhere.

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News in Networking: 160-Tbit/s Cable, Airline Network Issues, and a Patched-Mac Vuln

Kentik

Microsoft, Facebook, and telecoms infrastructure provider Telxius announced their new high-capacity subsea cable, called Marea, is complete. EFI identifies what hardware components are available, starts those components up, and hands them over to the operating system,” reports Ars Technica.

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Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment

Tenable

Video conferencing and VoIP solutions that became must-haves for remote-operating organizations (as necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic) were common attack vectors during 2020. Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, recently characterized ransomware as "the most visible, disruptive cyberthreat."

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IoT Security Concerns - How Secure Is the Hybrid Workforce?

Palo Alto Networks

Many organizations made rapid investments in their IT systems and infrastructure to support work from home; however, the security chasm created in the process has not been adequately addressed. A Closer Look at the Permanent Work-from-Home Model — A New Wave of IoT Security Concerns.

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Why your Business Telecoms will Determine your Success

Strategy Driven

This shift to cloud services, in particular, has progressed at an incredible speed, and many businesses have been able to take advantage of the remote and flexible possibilities of this new telecommunications infrastructure. This means less investment in physical hardware and taking advantage of hosted voice platforms.

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Announcing IoT Security: No Organization Is Protected Without It

Palo Alto Networks

IoT has become an essential piece of infrastructure for every enterprise and business. Different IoT devices use different hardware, operating systems and firmware. As I talk with IT organizations, they tell me they want an IoT security solution that lets them keep moving at full speed while alleviating their security concerns.

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How to Use Open Source Software: Features, Main Software Types, and Selection Advice

Altexsoft

Software groups we describe allow for building an organization’s IT infrastructure, managing data and content across departments, app development and testing, as well as managing interaction with customers. Some of the extra functions are VoIP integration and synchronization with Google Calendar and MailChimp. Operating systems.