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Remote Security Solutions for Small Organizations

With many staff now working from home, it is a good time to reconsider how to best protect your organization’s users and data.

By Drew Shumate
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June 16, 2020
Security, Cloud, Services, Software

The global pandemic and social distancing measures have redefined the office for many people. Industries that never would have considered allowing their office employees to work from home were forced to rethink decades of business as usual.

This change has also brought new technology needs. Since these businesses had built technology infrastructures that relied on traditional network and application architecture, a shift had to occur. Suddenly, IT departments were dealing with overloaded VPNs or having to deploy a VPN that they never had to maintain before. Compound that with the fact that users are now accessing company resources from networks or assets that corporate IT has no control over, that most home routers are still vulnerable to exploitation and that, in many cases, the network gates were flung open in the name of productivity ― it’s enough to give any CISO an ulcer.

So how can companies mitigate these risks? Now that everyone is settling into a routine and we’re adjusting to this “new normal,” it’s an ideal time to reach out to your users and talk about security.

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3 Updates to TLS 1.3 That Will Improve Internet Security

Simpler methods, faster negotiations and protections against passive interception enhance the new security protocol.

By Ben Mason
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February 19, 2019
Security, Networking

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,…

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