A few months ago, our kids’ school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread " ransomware," a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting ...

Good network segmentation is a highly recommended network security practice that requires a firewall policy known as an allow-list or whitelist. How should you go about implementing it? What is ...

A VLAN, or virtual local area network, works in the same way as a physical LAN with the exception that the hosts don't need to be located on the same physical network to be linked. Segmentation is the ...

Especially with the pandemic, organizations want their technology accessible from any location. Security vulnerabilities, however, dictate that it may not be wise to expose everything to the internet.

Tommy Peterson is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Protecting all the critical data on Utah’s ...

Without strong network segmentation policy and security measures, if a server firewall gets breached, the attacker can move easily to any number of others in the network. Perimeter security measures ...

Data centers have become increasingly dynamic and distributed, which is why there has been a rise in technologies such as virtual machines, containers and hyperconverged systems. Security has been ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A few months ago, our kids’ school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread “ransomware,” a ...