The trend of working from home has hit the ground running, and businesses have turned to strategies and tools that will ensure a no-plummet productive environment. There are two major forks in the road when it comes to provisioning remote endpoints—users can use their own devices, or the company can hand over corporate-owned devices. Given […]
The right way to track technician performance
Amid concerns of resource scarcity and increasingly complex resolution processes, service desks are constantly under pressure to deliver more with less. This, in effect, forces service desk managers to drive technicians to resolve requests faster, leading to an unhealthy obsession with numbers. Several service desks are known to regard the number of requests closed by […]
GCP monitoring and alerting with Applications Manager
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google, launched in 2008. It is a powerful cloud platform that offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and serverless computing environments. Many companies are now using GCP to build, modernize, and scale their businesses. GCP monitoring with Applications Manager […]
How to choose the right compliance management software for your business
While keeping data safe from modern cyberthreats is difficult enough, you also have to keep in mind compliance with common regulations, i.e., ensuring your company’s compliance to SOX, which deals with transparency in disclosures from public companies. Nowadays, it’s not enough for businesses to rely on dismissive financial documents that satisfy the intermittent audit; you […]
Five worthy reads: How should your business approach multi-cloud adoption?
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about the multi-cloud strategy, why you should consider it and how to implement it in your organization. Businesses are emphasizing remote work options, and workers are now accessing more applications and […]
Key metrics to track to enable remote work and maintain business continuity
Remote work has become the new norm. Organizations are adapting to the current volatile market conditions by amending their business strategies, drafting new business playbooks, and laying down novel policies, all centered around one theme: remote work. This transition to remote work certainly hasn’t been easy and brings with it a unique set of challenges. […]
Your return-to-the-office cybersecurity checklist
The novel COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way organizations work. The sudden transition to remote work has forced organizations to look for temporary fixes to bridge the gap, leaving their endpoints exposed to an unprecedented threat landscape. Insecure internet connections, a lack of perimeter security, and the inability to implement effective security policies have made […]
What is the Right Password Policy?
What is the right password policy? Conventional password policies say you must have a password at least 8-12 characters long…16 characters or longer if it belongs to an elevated privileged account, contain letters, numbers, and symbols (making the password complex), and be changed every 90 days or less. That’s the password policy we‘ve been taught […]
It’s World Password Day 2020 – Is Your Organization Safe?
Today is World Password Day, a holiday created by Intel on the first Thursday of May to ensure everyone knows password best practices. “P@ssW0rd” has never been a safe password to use to protect your accounts… ever. There are best practices to keep in mind when creating passwords. Here are a few of our personal […]
COVID-19 Security Hints & Tips Email Templates In 10 Additional Languages
KnowBe4’s Product Content team is happy to announce that their 9 COVID-19 Security Hints and Tips email templates are now available in 10 additional languages. The new emails are available in: German (DE-DE) French – Canada (FR-CA) French – France (FR-FR) Japanese (JP-JP) Dutch (NL-NL) Portuguese – Brazil (PT-BR) Spanish – Latin America (ES-LA) Spanish […]