What’s the current state of multifactor authentication in your organization? If you’re like many of my customers, you might think that MFA is old hat — a problem solved years ago that now just requires a little routine maintenance. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably time for you to re-evaluate the role that MFA plays…
Cisco Systems’s flagship Contact Center solution, including both Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) and Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX), has had but one certified solution for its product on the automatic speech recognition/text-to-speech and voice biometrics front. That is now changing with the introduction of another option from LumenVox. Learning about LumenVox LumenVox’s offering has…
Cybersecurity attacks are more organized than ever. The threats to organizations’ applications and data require IT professionals to be more focused than ever, too. The attention that organizations are paying to security was on display in August at the CDW Managing Risk Summit in Boston. The event brought IT leaders from across the U.S. together…
Our nation’s financial system is fragile. The technology we depend on today for the secure exchange of funds between banks dates back decades to a system that was first built to facilitate funds transfers using Morse Code. Today’s incarnation of that system takes advantage of modern computing standards, such as TCP/IP networking, but that convenience…
Last year, nearly 40 percent of industrial control systems worldwide experienced attacks from external sources, according to a Kaspaersky analysis. That’s a sobering statistic, especially when coupled with evidence that cyberattacks were involved in crippling power outages in the Ukraine in late 2015. The following year, closer to home, U.S. cybersecurity officials accused Iran of…
The intense interest in cybersecurity among IT professionals reflects its growing importance to just about every organization in every industry. I talked with many people who attended the CDW SummIT on Managing Risk in Las Vegas last month, and I was really impressed with the number of attendees and their level of engagement. One of…
