THINK AGAIN.
According to identity theft protection company IdentityForce, reported year-over-year data breaches in the U.S. increased +40% in 2016, with the largest breach in history (affecting more than one billion – yes, BILLION – Yahoo accounts) leading the way. That trend only gained momentum in 2017, with significant quantities…
Each Spring,Cisco hosts a one-day Cisco Connect event in Cleveland. TEC was there in mid-March and we were delighted to see so many of our customers attending the event. For those of you who didn’t make it, here’s a recap of what the event entailed and why you should…
Does your data center have the secret sauce? Does it have that special ingredient that creates a simple and thorough solution? Does the following list describe your data center?
One IT Platform for all its needs
Data Resiliency
Scalability without complexity
Business Continuity
Data Redundancy
Centralized Management
A fiscally…
Gerald joins us as a Sales Account Manager.
What can you expect?
Nothing but the best.
Gerald is an experienced salesperson, who is knowledgeable in global and local telecommunication and IT business solutions. His experience ranges from data storage and voice projects to managed services and cloud-based technologies. In every position he…
What Does It Mean for Data Center Management?
What is hyperconvergence? To understand what hyperconvergence is, it helps to understand where we’ve come from in the data center space.
The data center – or “server closet”, depending on the size of your business – used to be a room that kept…
A Firewall Replacement shouldn’t wait until the technology gets outdated.
There’s the old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is not the case with technology – especially when it comes to network security. Learn why a university, with a tight budget and a two-year-old firewall, contacted TEC…
By Frank Keogh
While the name, “Next Generation Firewall” sounds like one of those “hype” terms that marketers often use to get you excited about a product, this is one instance where the technology really lives up the to the name.
To understand what a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is, it…
By Frank Keogh
As technologies evolve, fancy new names have to be created by technology vendors in order to differentiate today’s super-cool technology from yesterday’s super-cool-but-now-outdated technology.
This is the case with the label “Advanced Malware Protection”, or “AMP”. AMP is the name given to the most current iteration of antivirus…
TEC Tech Quick Hits
In Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report, Cisco’s SVP of Security, John N. Stewart, had the following to say:
“It’s really quite simple: The more attack vectors that go unnoticed and the longer we allow attackers time to exploit our systems and infrastructure, the greater their chance for…
Guest wifi is now considered to be a given at venues, stores and restaurants. About 1 in 10 customers admit to leaving a venue if free wifi isn’t available for them to utilize. The fact of the matter isn’t if you should have guest wifi, it’s what kind of…
