Opinion

Hospital devices left vulnerable, leave patients at risk

Report shows how malware sneaks its way past firewalls

The 5 things I hate about CRM systems

Asking me my favorite CRM system struck such a nerve, prompting me to rant like Lewis Black about why CRM systems are terrible

Is your IT infrastructure healthy?

Unless your business is one of the only 10 percent that has an infrastructure management tool, you have no idea how healthy your IT environment is

How historical data helps you manage your IT infrastructure

There are many benefits to having historical data on your IT infrastructure readily available. It helps with analyses, forecasting, disaster recovery and troubleshooting.

Rapid7 demystifies penetration testing

Study: 1 in 3 website visitors is an attack bot

And 94.2 percent of 100,000 inspected websites experienced at least one bot attack during a 90-day survey period.

Considering SD-WAN? Key questions to address before making the leap

How to make sure Software Defined WANs are right for your business

5 things to know about Cisco and AppDynamics

The acquisition of AppDynamics didn't come up at the Cisco event on the same day

The end of net neutrality is nigh—here’s what’s likely to happen

The new FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is committed to killing net neutrality. What will that mean in practice for internet service providers, content providers and consumers?

The key functions to consider when building or buying a log analysis platform

Adoption of the wrong platform might make matters worse

FreeDOS 1.2: Why DOS is amazing in 2017

DOS in 2017? You betcha. FreeDOS 1.2 lets me play my favorite classic video games, as well as run classic DOS word processors.

ZeroStack uses machine learning to create self-driving clouds

ZeroStack’s AI-driven approach reduces the burden of running a private cloud

Hacking the 2016 election: A timeline

Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election played out in a series of hacks taking place over several months. Here’s how the attacks unfolded.

To What Extent Can IT Future-Proof Storage?

Is SD-WAN as stupid a term as the cloud?

Previously, I wrote suggesting we all stop using the term hybrid WAN and standardize on SD-WAN. Scott Picket emailed me to challenge that.

SSL or IPsec: Which is best for IoT network security?

User-less traffic sparks an interesting debate on security protocols

Beware of the legacy public cloud

Legacy is a bad word. Legacy public clouds are a scary thought. It just might happen.

A patchwork quilt of IoT security

Individual, small pieces can give us a strong IoT security fabric

Service insertion—Why it’s so important

Service insertion helps enterprise networks spin up new network services rather easily. For anyone considering SD-WAN, service insertion is an invaluable feature.

Using DNS to weaken Locky, the powerful ransomware threat

An anonymized feed of DNS queries, along with anomaly detection and correlation technology, makes it possible to identify suspected domains used by Locky to download encryption keys

Cost optimization gains ground in IT infrastructure decisions

Companies need to continually seek ways to optimize costs. Now more than ever, they need to be nimble, efficient and smart.

Juniper heads to the clouds with Unite

The Unite framework is a solid, prescriptive way for Juniper Networks customers to move to a hybrid cloud

Six runtime threat detection and response tips for container security

No matter how good a job you do with vulnerability scanning and container hardening, there are unknown bugs and vulnerabilities that may manifest in the runtime

IoT is all business

IoT will radically transform the enterprise more than the government or consumer markets

5 Common tech hiring mistakes to avoid

The $475 S key

A broken S key on my MacBook Air became an outrageous $475 repair cost. I should have paid for Apple Care.

Savings in the cloud: How to find them and when to make your move

If you don’t have to re-platform applications, 45% of current instances would run 36% more cost effectively in the cloud

Secure applications, not the cloud

The application stack is the new perimeter

Office 365 could give Microsoft Teams an advantage over Slack

A new survey finds that Microsoft Teams is off to a strong start, but there’s a lot of confusion as well as competition in the business communications market — and team chat is only the latest trend.

7 Reasons your cloud will fail

While cloud can lead to key benefits, make sure you avoid these costly mistakes