Looking at the “new office,” Presidio is helping customers enhance their current capabilities to bring the office where their employees are. Every aspect of collaboration has a human touch to it, and we help customers become future-ready. It’s about connecting people, and companies can’t afford to make a mistake with their most valuable resource—their employees.
Despite efforts within the cyber security industry to oversimplify the concept, Zero Trust should be thought of as a strategy and framework, as opposed to a problem addressable simply by implementing technology. Technology plays an important role in providing technical security controls such as strong authentication, least privilege, and impeded lateral movement, etc. which contributes to achieving a Zero Trust model. The combination of a strategically curated eco-system of technical controls and processes requires executive buy-in and organizational support to succeed.
Everyone agrees that the best way to combat rising cybersecurity attacks is by implementing better security, but users will circumvent the defenses if it’s too cumbersome.
It’s a well-known fact that passwords are the Achilles’ heel of security. According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, more than 80% of data breaches result from an attacker logging into a customer’s applications using stolen passwords—often initiated by an email phishing attack.
Dubbed “one of the most disruptive digital ransom schemes reported” by Reuters, the ransomware attack on Friday shut down an entire pipeline network, which is the source of nearly half of the U.S. East Coast’s fuel supply. As of Tuesday, the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have put out a joint advisory about the attack. The culprit has been identified as DarkSide, a malware operator that runs Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). You can read the full alert here.
As a fast, easy alternative for compute and storage resources, the public cloud practically sells itself: it requires no large up-front capital expenditures, its pay-per-usage model delivers the speed and agility to get to market fast, and it’s ideal for hosting short-term or trial content. What’s more, leading cloud environments are optimized for reliable performance on Intel® technology for the data center.
Whether we like it or not, the way we work and where we work has fundamentally influenced our collective perspective. The pandemic forced organizations to quickly update and implement business resiliency plans or scramble to develop and execute plans to support remote work and education potentially mortgaging data security in the process. The pandemic continues to force organizations to revisit long-standing beliefs and attitudes about and toward remote work and education. As a result, while most knowledge or service-based organizations learned that they are more productive than ever, they are also very vulnerable because traditional approaches to securing remote devices and access to sensitive data simply did not travel well. The cybersecurity industry responded quickly and, in many cases, was well-positioned to support a transition to remote work. The industry foresaw an increased need to secure and manage remote devices as well as access to sensitive data from those devices, but the pandemic expedited and magnified the use case.
In the series of Presidio Inspires blogs, we bring to our readers topics that span different technologies and solutions top of mind in today’s world. With Cisco, the technology we provide customers is often more impactful than any of us can imagine. It’s the ability to impact people with technology that is driving digital transformationOne customer that comes to mind for impactful digital transformation is a top-tier Children’s Hospital in the US, which provides children from all over the country lifesaving services.
On behalf of the entire Presidio community, I’m delighted to announce the launch of our new website. We hope that the new presidio.com provides a clear message of who we are and what we stand for, in the context of our expanding role as a digital systems integrator with increasingly global scale. As Presidio’s head of marketing, it was eye-opening to gain a first-hand experience of what it’s like to work in partnership with our own cloud development team – the same group of experts who help our customers define disruptive business or mission outcomes, and then help build, manage and run modernized technology environments.
First and foremost, I want to express how Presidio is thrilled at Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel. Having Pat at the helm again can only mean great things to come for our already-powerful collaborative relationship.
The best time to prepare for the workplace of the future? Right now. Public- and private-sector organizations alike scrambled to address global disruption with speed and ingenuity, using whatever resources they had – and, in the process, they revealed new possibilities for a more flexible, mobile workforce.
