Due in part to widespread remote learning, the public cloud has claimed an even greater role in K–12 education over the past year than it held before. Public cloud resources bring benefits such as elasticity, but they can also put school systems at risk of cyberattacks and data breaches if organizations don’t take appropriate security measures.

The following five steps can help K–12 schools keep their cloud environments as secure as possible.

Cisco customers have a choice between Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for building their data center network fabrics. Since these technologies are thought to be interchangeable, the choice often falls to cultural, political or other “Layer 8” decision-making. But the fabric technologies are, in fact, different in ways both subtle and significant, and one’s choice has a profound impact on fabric orchestration, operations, and staffing.

I hope you’ll join me all the way through this three-part blog series as I compare and contrast these technologies and provide a foundation for deciding on the best choice for your organization’s needs.

For many organizations, a migration to public cloud is seen as a technical challenge with a set of tasks that need to be completed. In reality, it is far more than that, with areas outside of technology that need to be considered.

This blog post will touch on some of the more pertinent areas of your business that should be considered in your migration to the public cloud.

In my work with CDW customers, I often come across technology leaders who want to improve their cybersecurity posture but aren’t really sure where to start. They might recognize that their organizations need to improve their cybersecurity controls but don’t know where their investments will pay off the most.

When I hear concerns like this, I immediately look to the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). While there are many different cybersecurity standards out there, I prefer this one because it uses plain language to describe the five most important activities in cybersecurity. I’d like to walk you through this framework using two different examples.

In the fall 2018, Transport Layer Security 1.3 was published as RFC 8446 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). TLS 1.3 is a major update from TLS 1.2 that simplifies and increases the security for encrypted traffic as compared to previous TLS versions. Some of the significant changes to the protocol were removing old,…

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…