The massive move to remote work due to the coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly posed challenges, but it’s also created a valuable opportunity. Remote work shines a spotlight on the employee experience and on IT security, and many organizations have realized that simply moving employees to home offices doesn’t sufficiently address either concern.

Instead, organizations are rethinking the technologies they use to support their teams, which may be quite different when those teams aren’t onsite. Enter unified endpoint management (UEM), designed to address the situation in which so many of us now find ourselves: making it both seamless and secure to work on any device and any network.

As a CDW field solution architect, I work with organizations across numerous industries as they grapple with the complexity of securing cloud computing environments. These environments range from full-scale public cloud deployments to internal private clouds, along with varying degrees of hybrid cloud. But whatever the technology, the security issues remain constant. We work with them to protect their data, applications and infrastructure against a wide range of threats.

Here are some key steps that you can take to secure your own cloud computing deployments.

In February 2019, Cisco released version 2.6 of Identity Search Engine (ISE). While this version can be a direct upgrade from ISE releases 2.1 to 2.4, organizations should ensure their ISE is on the latest patch level for its version number before upgrading. First, What Happened to ISE v.2.5? You might have noticed that Cisco…

Today’s smartphones have security features that were practically science fiction just a few years ago. A user with a new device likely has a phone that encrypts data, continuously updates its operating system to ward off threats and allows users to authenticate their identity with biometric factors such as fingerprint and facial recognition.

This is great for users, and it can also be great for the enterprise. By taking advantage of these baked-in security measures, organizations can direct their own efforts toward other security steps and ensure that their growing mobile environments don’t put their networks and data in harm’s way.

When I tell organizational leaders that they can cut the average call time in their customer engagement centers by 10 to 20 seconds, their eyes light up. I can see them doing the mental math, calculating their potential savings by multiplying those shaved seconds across all the calls that their customer service representatives handle every…

Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a powerful tool for providing cybersecurity and networking teams with visibility into the identity of users accessing their networks. I’ve spent the past few years working with CDW customers deploying ISE in a wide variety of environments. During that time, I’ve learned a few lessons that can help organizations…