When shopping around for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, it’s sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees. There’s a lot of talk on GB’s, Ghz, RAM, VM’s and IOPS, and a lot of spin around multi-tenanted, single-tenanted, dedicated resources, uptimes, hypervisors, desktop delivery and storage tiers. It’s a lot of information to process, and it
Month: March 2016
Pros and Cons of Internal IT versus Outsourced IT
When you’re presented with the opportunity to hire a new IT resource or to outsource to a Managed IT Service Provider, which direction should you head? Do you interview, hire and train a new staff member or pay a little more per hour (but possibly less overall across the course of a year) to recruit
Humans make the best attack vector
Who? Me? As a Managed IT Service provider looking at the state of affairs in multi-stage chained attacks we can say this: if you want to be an effective hacker, take a persuasive writing course. That’s also the lesson delivered in a report last week by US-based Proofpoint, a leading Security-as-a-service vendor shows that automated