Using passwords and PINs for access control has long been a source of humor, from George Costanza on Seinfeld choosing BOSCO as his ATM PIN to jokes about setting 1234 or ABCD as passwords.

Fighting the sophisticated threats in today’s risk landscape requires more than just security tools. To defend against both external and internal risks, your company must develop a cybersecurity strategy. A security strategy helps to shape the way your security solutions work together, creating a more comprehensive approach to preventing risk.

Many companies make the mistake of taking a reactive approach to security, remediating an attack after it occurs. After a ransomware attack, this means recovering data that has been encrypted and systems that have been locked. Instead, your business should focus on preventing an attack, making recovery unnecessary.

To defend against today’s sophisticated cyberattacks, companies need more than security tools. Instead, they must design a security strategy that allows them to take a proactive and preventative approach to fighting cybercrime.

The research group Digital Society defines the digital world as a place in which technologies have become an integral part of the way we live our lives, making life easier and more efficient.

Technology market experts IDC reported that hyperconverged systems have been the main source of growth in the converged systems market, showing marked acceleration in the last quarter of 2020. Technology news site TheNextPlatform attributes the health of the HCI market to its evolution from being used for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to being seen as a platform for modern workloads, including hybrid cloud and containerization.

The pandemic has triggered shortages and price hikes on everything from toilet paper to rental cars. These problems can be caused by issues with the supply chain, meaning products and the materials needed to manufacture them are scarce. Business technology is no exception.

For those of you looking to travel in 2022, there are a lot of conferences rewarding safely gathering in person. The large ones are remaining in the Las Vegas city of lights while there are others that offer new locations each year. There are also still hybrid models which make it easy to maximize your time and expense. Here is an overview of this year’s schedule where together we can learn, engage and explore the future of technology.

On December 15th a subsequent vulnerability, CVE-2021-45046 has been discovered in the patch that Apache released for Log4j that may allow attackers to launch a DOS attack by adding malicious input data through a JNDI lookup pattern. We expect that subsequent CVEs may be discovered over the coming days and will continue to provide updates to support detection and remediation of post-compromise threat activity.

Recent acts of cyberterrorism have underscored the importance of raising your company’s IT security game. CNN reported a notable rise in cyberattacks, citing that in May 2021, hackers targeted the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies gas to the east coast of the U.S., and the food processor JBS USA, threatening the nation’s vital fuel and food supplies.