Ziyad Roumaya

[sayit]Now is not the time to let your guard down. As organizations across the country have moved to remote work models, many have reported an increase in cyberattacks. Cybercriminals, it seems, are taking advantage of the public health crisis to exploit security vulnerabilities in home-based computer systems. Learn how CDW can help you improve the…

Recently, I asked a roomful of CISOs from a variety of industries — including retail — how many of them had an incident response plan or even an incident response retainer in place. Even in that room, where every single person was in charge of safeguarding his or her organization’s data, only 20 percent raised…

As more users turn to cloud solutions, IT departments find themselves with a growing list of questions. Who is accessing cloud-based data? From where? Which services are they using? How many files are they uploading? How much bandwidth are cloud services consuming? Are they abiding by regulatory requirements? How much usage are organizations getting from…

New security policies provide organizations with a proven way to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals, but the rollout of such policies is often easier said than done — especially when dozens of firewalls and thousands of devices are involved. To overcome this challenge, small and mid-size organizations should consider Cisco Defense Orchestrator, a new…

Data centers store an organization’s most valuable, confidential assets, from account information and product designs to strategic plans. To protect these resources, organizations more frequently are turning to firewalls inside their data center that provide exceptional throughput and ultra-low latency — allowing data centers to still function at a high level, but with increased security.…