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Most businesses can’t afford the luxury of a qualified IT administrator, let alone an entire IT department. If you’re in this position, how do you maintain the information technology infrastructure that’s critical to your organization?
One option is Managed Services, in which you outsource this role to an IT expert called a “managed services provider,” which [...]

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Palo Alto Networks has released an updated product demo video for their next generation firewalls.  In this video, Lee Klarich, Vice President of Product management, provides an introduction to the capabilities of the PAN firewall.  This video only takes around 7 minutes to watch him demonstrate the application visibility and policy control elements of the [...]

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The growing reach and power of the internet has changed the way people do business, with more and more web-based services popping up. One of these is SaaS.
SaaS stands for Software as a Service, which refers to any licensed software being “rented” to a company by another company on an as-needed basis.
To illustrate, let’s say [...]

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You can’t have a disaster recovery plan until you first have a good backup solution. Is your backup solution good—or just good enough?
The traditional backup process was done to tape – which had a number of limitations including high cost (particularly as capacity increases), difficult upgrades, degradation over time, and slow backup and restoration. Over [...]

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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, stated during an interview with InformationWeek that when it comes to cloud computing, Microsoft is “all in”.  He commented that the cloud growth, or “hockey stick” as he referred to it, is now taking off.  Over the past five years Microsoft has made a significant investment in their cloud computing products [...]

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If you suspect that you’ve responded to a phishing scam with personal or financial information or entered this information into a fake Web site, take these steps to minimize any damage.
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Phishing, pronounced “fishing,” is a type of online identity theft that uses e-mail and fraudulent Web sites that are designed to steal your personal data or information such as credit card numbers, passwords, account data, or other information. Follow these guidelines to help protect yourself from phishing scams sent through e-mail.
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A malicious piece of software making the rounds on news websites recently is believed to be behind the compromise of over 75,000 systems in over 2,500 international organizations – many of which are government agencies and large Fortune 500 companies.
Called the Kneber botnet after the name in the email used to register the initial domain [...]

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Gartner recently released the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls where they placed Palo Alto Networks in the visionary quadrant.  Gartner acknowledged the following key points about Palo Alto Networks:
“Taking a next-generation firewall approach to the market, Palo Alto Networks saw rapid growth in 2009 and meets the inclusion criteria for this edition of [...]

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As a result of the past year’s economic climate, many businesses have increased their efforts to mitigate risks and lower costs—and more and more are turning toward remote IT support to fulfill those goals.
Remote support tools allow IT providers to support an entire company’s computing infrastructure, wherever and whenever needed, from their own offices. This [...]

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The prevailing bad weather in the United States and Europe has caused varying degrees of production delays in all sorts of industries and business. In circumstances like these, communication is especially important – when all members of the organization need to stay connected to keep operations coordinated and moving forward.
Bad weather or not, there has [...]

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Microsoft recently released a number of security bulletins and patches addressing vulnerabilities in Windows and Office that are of high risk to users. It’s widely believed that many will be exploited by hackers within the next 30 days. One of them could potentially allow hackers or malware authors to easily compromise systems by tricking users [...]

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Spanish authorities report that they have arrested the masterminds behind a string of online criminal activities using the botnet dubbed Mariposa. Mariposa is the original name of a commercially distributed Do-it-Yourself malware kit, sold online for 800/1000 EUR for “wannabe” hackers.  Along with the arrest, authorities seized sensitive data belonging to about 800,000 users in 190 [...]

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Businesses are constantly changing. Is your disaster recovery plan changing, too? It should be.
 
Every company can experience a business-altering event at any time:  floods, explosions, accidents, computer malfunctions—the list is endless.
 
If you have a disaster recovery plan, you’re prepared to prevent such events from disrupting your normal operations—or at least you were at the time [...]

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