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…

On December 19th, Target confirmed that there was unauthorized access to payment card data of about 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores between November 27th and December 15th. On December 27th, the company confirmed reports that encrypted data containing debit card PIN numbers was also obtained but they maintain that this…