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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. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”. Navigating the pandemic. It worked like magic.

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Hardware VPNs or Software VPNs? What’s the Best Option?

Strategy Driven

When talking about VPNs, you might hear people referring to either “software VPNs” or “hardware VPNs.”. What Is a Hardware VPN? Hardware VPNs are devices with dedicated processors that offer VPN, and firewall features. To give you an idea of how hardware VPNs look like, here’s a good example – the hardware VPN from Zyxel.

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Announcing IoT Security: No Organization Is Protected Without It

Palo Alto Networks

Different IoT devices use different hardware, operating systems and firmware. Most recently, the Sofacy Group (Fancy Bear or APT28) was found compromising popular IoT devices such as VoIP phones, office printers and video decoders to infiltrate several corporate networks. IoT devices present unique challenges for security teams.

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IoT Security Concerns - How Secure Is the Hybrid Workforce?

Palo Alto Networks

Voice-over IP (VOIP) phones, collaboration and productivity tools, such as video cameras and microphones, digital whiteboards and the like, are making their way into unmanaged home networks. New, corporate-issued IoT devices go beyond laptops and smartphones.

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Advanced SSH Tunneling

taos

Establishing a layer-3 SSH VPN using “tun” devices: On the local server, issue the following command: sudo ssh -f -w 0:0 root@remotehost.example.com true (NOTE: You must be root on BOTH the local system and the remote system in order to create the “tun0” virtual network devices and connect them via SSH’s tunneling protocol.) x IP addresses.

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The Top 4 Benefits of Introducing Unified Communications into Your Business

Strategy Driven

Regardless, there are a number of perfectly valid reasons that introducing a unified communications system into your business is a smart move and one that virtually any business can benefit from. You don’t need to have any hardware on-site, instead everything is hosted in the cloud. Reduced Costs. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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How Machine Learning Will Influence SD-WAN

Altexsoft

This is much more efficient and reliable than manually applying updates and configuring network hardware at each data center. Machine learning has even been proven to help SD-WANs recognize VoIP traffic. Any rule changes or updates can be immediately applied and will rapidly propagate across the network.