If you’ve been listening to the industry analysts you are probably aware of the rapid growth trajectory for enterprise mobility. Mobility is one of the fastest-growing segments of the enterprise technology market. IT spending on mobility-related products, projects, and initiatives is expected to grow from 25% of IT budgets in 2015 to 40% of large enterprise IT budgets in 2018. It is an area that is growing very rapidly, both in strategic importance for enterprises, as well as IT spend and market opportunity for the channel.

Wannacry was a warning to the U.S. Healthcare community, the chaos that ensued in the U.K. is a cautionary tale of the effects and severity of healthcare breaches. Over 300,000 companies across 150 countries were impacted by WannaCry ransomware, with the U.K. National Health Serivce (NHS) getting hit particularly hard causing thousands of operations and appointments to be canceled. An interesting note is that the NHS wasn’t targeted specifically, but became victim because its systems weren’t secure. The U.S. is not immune, already this year we have experienced some of the biggest health breaches causing detrimental impact across the board.  As the threats continue to swarm, we need to take a hard look at what can be done to improve the U.S healthcare cybersecurity or risk becoming the next headline. 

Puzzled on Services? Fit the pieces together with vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.

Growing businesses come with more opportunities for security breaches, the need for your customers’ to understand the differences between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test becomes a necessity.  Some will say that there is an overlap and similarities between these, however, the opposite could not prove to be truer.

Have you ever wondered if the bad guys are really trying to compromise your corporate network or those of your customers?  With all the potential targets out there, surely it’s the other guys who have to worry, right? A customer told me the other day that budgets are tight this year and he has so many priorities, that he feels like he has to take his chances with cyber security right now.  He has a firewall after all.

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More and more, hackers are turning their attention from banks and financial institutions to healthcare organizations. Why? Because they see healthcare companies as low-hanging fruit.

Do you know which industry experienced the highest rate of cyber-attacks last year?

It’s no surprise that with the growth of customer networks and the inter-connectivity of the “Internet of Things (IoT)” that our customers have been busy adding and building out their infrastructures to support this growth.  In many cases our partners are being called upon to not only conduct the work effort associated with building out these environments, but they are being asked to expand their skills into my favorite area of interest – Security.