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Equipping BPOs is a heavy lift for enterprise IT and security teams. We need a radical change in approach

CIO Business Intelligence

But this increasing reliance on outsourcing has serious implications for CIOs and their IT and security teams who have to navigate a plethora of thorny tradeoffs in their efforts to make these remote contractors productive. But cyber security, privacy, and data protection risks are inherent in these kinds of relationships.

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Things to look for in a VOIP Business Provider

Galido

Here are some things to be look for and be aware of when choosing a VoIP provider. VoIP Technology. The principals of VoIP calls are similar to traditional digital phones which involves signaling, channel setup, digitizing analog signals, and encoding. The low cost of VoIP is most appealing to subscribers and businesses.

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Busting 4 common SD-WAN misconceptions

CIO Business Intelligence

The benefits are many and include: Better application performance : SD-WAN can prioritize business-critical traffic and real-time services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), steering it over the most efficient route and incorporating advanced WAN remediation. This reduces latency. They are not equally effective solutions.

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Latest on SolarWinds Cyber Attack: 'Grave Impact'

SecureWorld News

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) moved quickly to cut government servers from SolarWinds updates. Department of Homeland Security says 'multiple agencies' impacted. Department of Homeland Security about the serious nature of this attack. Read the related story. Now we know that was just the start.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Fountainhead: The End of the Laptop-Centric World?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. To accomplish her work she needs access to each clients intranet as well as a number of their secure, internal applications. Besides the cost and efforts to secure, the equipment is still subject to breakage, loss, theft and/or other forms of compromise.

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Deception and Forensics for the Next Generation — Part 5: Phantom Attacker

SecureWorld News

The thing that jumps out at me is the operating system because there is no VoIP running on our test network. First, the attacker could be a rogue machine running a VoIP OS. Another possibility is that it is a legitimate device that just happens to be running VoIP. 222 are virtual machine interfaces—decoys created by the BOTsink.

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