Cyber attacks against businesses and governments are becoming ever more sophisticated. For example, criminals and state actors are now employing proprietary encryption techniques to mask their attacks within system memory where the weaponry may be exposed for only 100 nanoseconds. Many legacy firewalls and anti-virus solutions are unable to effectively identify and mitigate this kind of attack within such a short timespan. Continue reading
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Is Your Network Reliable & Fast Enough for Growth?
With voice, data and video running across your IT environment, you need always-on, high-speed voice, broadband, and AV connections.
DataLink experts simplify the networking challenge by providing: Continue reading
How ‘Desktop as a Service’ Makes Your IT Easy
The need to keep pace with your users’ PCs, laptops, and mobile devices, as well as the constant updates they need – while dealing with unrelenting IT security threats – has placed enormous strains on businesses of every size.
To keep up with all of their daily IT demands, businesses are turning to an easier, more economical support model – “DaaS” or Desktop as a Service. Continue reading
Aruba’s Secure Fabric Covers Office & Mobile Users
Aruba, a DataLink partner, offers an innovative security framework that helps mobile businesses reduce risk in today’s changing threat landscape.
Aruba’s Secure Fabric provides 360 degrees of analytics-driven attack detection and response from the edge to the core to the cloud. The fabric not only simplifies security, it enables network and security professionals to respond faster to cyber attacks, minimizing the impact of a breach.
DataLink is Your Trusted Managed IT Provider
Don’t let your business fall behind… No matter what your IT challenge, you can get all the support you need from DataLink. Whether you choose Co-Managed or Turnkey support, we keep your IT reliable, secure, and available… Continue reading
Importance of Backing Up Microsoft Office 365 Data
If your business relies on Microsoft Office 365, it is absolutely critical that you avoid the unnecessary hazards of data loss. What you may not know is that even though Microsoft hosts the infrastructure, it is your responsibility to maintain a backup of your Office 365 data, including email, with a robust third-party backup solution. Continue reading
Everything Facebook and Google Know About You
Facebook continues to deal with the fallout from its own data security failures that have put the personal information of its users into the hands of third parties – some of whom have exploited that information for unethical purposes.
For users of Facebook and other social media who are concerned about such breaches of trust, it might be insightful to learn exactly what kind of personal information is tracked and harvested every day by these behemoths. Continue reading
GDPR Compliance… Need Help Getting Ready?
The European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in April 2016, replacing an outdated consumer protection directive from 1995.
Companies must comply with these strict new rules by May 25, 2018. Continue reading
In-Building Cell Signal Boosters Improve Mobility
Suffering from weak or intermittent cell phone coverage in your building? You’re not alone…
Smart businesses are turning to affordable cell phone signal amplifiers to empower their on-the-go employees to become more efficient and productive in every corner of their buildings. Continue reading
Lessons Learned from Baltimore Hack Attack
Baltimore’s 911 and 311 dispatch systems were hacked recently, shutting down automated call handling for 36 hours. Hackers running scans found an open internet port that was inadvertently left unprotected and used it to install ransomware.
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