Thousands of new threats are discovered every day, the majority of which now hide in SSL. Appliances can’t keep up with the update demands and IT can’t keep up with the change window. With appliances, you’re forced into compromising between what you can inspect and what you can afford. You end up with a costly ...

Are you in a constant struggle with your Blue Coat secure web gateway (SWG) appliance? Are you tired of the push and pull between the way things ought to be and the way things are? There was a time when gateway appliances like Blue Coat’s were a solid way to deliver network security. But with ...

Nowadays, it has become the place where much of complex modern business and normal life happens. With ubiquity comes new risk. By its very nature, an “internet for everyone” includes a haven for bad actors that are determined to take advantage of those of us using it to conduct business and go about our everyday ...

What if I gave you a link to a piece of new malware for you to hand your CIO, CISO, CFO, CEO—any of your company’s c-suite executives or board members—and you asked them to click on it? Would you be reasonably confident that your defenses would quickly prevent the malware from downloading and executing? Seems ...

It should come as no surprise that cyber criminals are leveraging these technology trends in their attacks against agencies and municipalities. Security threats have evolved from desktop-based viruses to browser-based threats, phishing attacks, and botnets. Mobility has made it even easier to breach enterprise security measures, as employees increasingly access organizational assets over unprotected WiFi ...

The question is, whether or not it’s possible, even advisable, to press forward with the deployment without IT first having a trial run at it? The answer to that is it’s not only possible, but it might very well be one of the best experiences you have ever had in your career. But getting there ...

The concept of backhauling traffic to a centralized data center worked when applications and users resided there. But with users in branch offices and applications moving to the cloud, backhauling traffic across a hub-and-spoke network provides a poor user experience that is expensive and increases security risk. You are paying to backhaul traffic to bring ...

Enterprise security has undergone a complete transformation as a result of rapid and sweeping changes that are remaking the way public sector organizations do business. New technologies and trends are changing the very definition of an enterprise, how and where we work, and the tools we use to do our jobs. To find out more ...

Is it possible to implement an Office 365-ready network, at scale, without a proof-of-concept (PoC)? Your CIO has tapped you to lead the effort to move to Office 365. Realizing it’s a great opportunity and distinction in your career; you reply with, “Sure, I’ll make sure it is a total success!” and then note that ...

Many are surely looking at the emergence of cloud computing and asking, “Hey, how did we get here so fast?” followed by, “What does this really mean to me and my career?” To help answer these questions, let’s break it down into the three generations that most closely span this discussion and IT landscape: Generations ...