The State of SaaS Data Protection in 2024 report reveals critical gaps in how businesses safeguard their cloud-based applications and data. Our research highlights:

Key highlights:

• SaaS apps are a major vector for cyberattacks, with 61% of breaches originating via these platforms
• 90% of businesses cannot recover encrypted SaaS data within an hour, leading to costly downtime
• Business leaders may be unaware of the true scope of SaaS usage in their organizations, suggesting potential gaps in data protection
• Underestimating SaaS usage and lack proper protection for critical systems like SSO and IAM
• How the shared responsibility model places responsibility for data protection and recovery on customers

The report also provides tips for businesses seeking to minimize their vulnerability to cyberattacks—including the ability to backup and restore SaaS data rapidly to avoid business disruption.

Download the full report to understand the evolving threat landscape and learn how to strengthen your organization's SaaS data protection strategy.

Since 2016, many users have turned to Apache Guacamole, a community-driven open-source remote desktop platform that is free for anyone to use and if your organization is technically savvy. The source code is publicly available to compile and build.

However, if you’d like software that’s ready to deploy for the enterprise and comes with responsive, professional support, Keeper Connection Manager (KCM) can provide an affordable way to get all the benefits of Apache Guacamole.

KCM provides users with a secure and reliable way to remotely connect to their machines using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Virtual Network Computing (VNC), Secure Shell (SSH) and other common protocols. Moreover, KCM is backed by a responsive team, including the original creators of Apache Guacamole, ensuring expert assistance is always available.

Let’s dive into the importance and challenges of remote access below.

There is no getting away from the fact that passwords are still the cornerstone of modern cybersecurity practices. Despite decades of advice to users to always pick strong and unique passwords for each of their online accounts, Keeper Security found that only one-quarter of survey respondents actually do this. Many use repeat variations of the same password (34%) or still admit to using simple passwords to secure their online accounts (30%). Perhaps more worryingly, almost half (44%) of those who claimed all their passwords were well-managed also said they used repeated variations of them. One in five also admitted to knowing they’ve had at least one password involved in a data breach or available on the dark web.

At first glance, these results may come as a shock, especially to those in the cybersecurity industry who have been touting these simple best practices for years. However, when considering more than one in three people (35%) globally admit to feeling overwhelmed when it comes to taking action to improve their cybersecurity, and one in ten admit to neglecting password management altogether, the results are much less of a surprise.

Cybersecurity is a priority and cybersecurity solutions must also be. The threat landscape continues to expand as our lives shift from in-person banks, stores, and coffee shops to online banking, internet shopping, social networking, and everything in between. We have never been more dependent on our phones, computers, and connected devices, yet we are overconfident in our ability to protect them and willfully ignoring the actions we must take to do so. Perhaps we need more people to admit they’re as careless as a bull in a china shop, burying their heads in the sand like an ostrich or simply paralyzed with fear. Facing reality and coming to recognize what’s at stake, they can more confidently charge forward and take the necessary steps to protect their information, identities and online accounts.

Organizations running today’s modern Windows desktop/workspace environments, face challenges in dynamically delivering  applications while minimizing base image management.

Liquidware, with its solutions and expertise, offers a comprehensive approach to help companies navigate each integral phase of a Windows Application Strategy. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of delivering applications in physical or cloud-based Windows workspaces and explores an “Assess, Prepare, Deploy” application strategy methodology.

• Hypervisor Integration: Seamless integration for better performance and scalability.
• Cost Efficiency:  Eliminates expensive server hardware and storage controllers.
• Built-in Deduplication: Core-level deduplication for minimal performance impact, maximum efficiency, and significant cost savings.
• Intelligent Hardware Failure Protection: Enhanced resilience with data copies across multiple nodes and drives.
• Advanced Snapshot Capabilities: Unlimited, efficient and independent snapshots.

Cyberattacks and ransomware target backup data in 93% of incidents. Despite being primary targets for ransomware and data exfiltration, existing Zero Trust frameworks often overlook the security of data backup and recovery systems.
 
Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR) is an innovative model that extends Zero Trust principles to data backup and recovery. Developed through a collaboration between Numberline Security and Veeam, ZTDR builds on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM).  
 
This framework provides a practical guide for IT and security teams to improve data protection, reduce security risk, and enhance an organization's cyber resilience.
 
The primary principles of ZTDR include:

• Segmentation — Separation of Backup Software and Backup Storage to enforce least-privilege access, as well as to minimize the attack surface and blast radius.
• Multiple data resilience zones or security domains to comply with the 3-2-1 Backup Rule and to ensure multi-layered security.
• Immutable Backup Storage to protect backup data from modifications and deletions. Zero Access to Root and OS, protecting against external attackers and compromised administrators, is a must-have as part of true immutability. 
  

The white paper "Zero Trust and Enterprise Data Backup" details these principles and offers practical steps for implementation. 
 
What You'll Learn:

• Security Enhancement: Core Zero Trust principles applied to data backup.
• Implementation: Best practices for infrastructure segmentation and resilience zones.
• Applications: Case studies on mitigating ransomware and cyber threats. 
  

Download the white paper and start your journey towards Zero Trust Data Resilience.

You will also discover how you can:

Quickly Create adaptive and customized M&A workspace

IT teams can quickly set up a branded Liquit Workspace integrated with existing workspaces for a single user interface on the front end while enabling fast individual and group user customization via the back end. This enables you to meet changing user application and platform needs during and after M&A.

Quickly adapt to application user needs

Take application provisioning, updating, and versioning from hours to minutes for hundreds of users, along with access to thousands of curated applications to deliver merging workforce productivity. 

Unify application access provisioning

Eliminate the nightmare of access provisioning across varied on-premises and cloud environments for thousands of users in minutes rather than hours without uprooting native SSO and IAM that are constantly in flux during and after M&A.

Dramatically reduce cost and time expenditures

Eliminate collaboration and communication bottlenecks across on-premises, VDI platforms and clouds while freeing IT time for bigger M&A integration projects and lowering licensing and IT costs.

Research finds PAM solutions are too complex with 68% of organizations paying for “wasted features” that are rarely used. A global survey of 400 IT and security executives conducted in January 2023, by Keeper Security in partnership with TrendCandy Research, reveals an overwhelming industry desire for Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions that are easy to deploy and maintain.

The findings show that traditional PAM solutions are falling far short, largely because they are too complex to implement and use. An overwhelming 84% of IT leaders said they want to simplify their PAM solution in 2023. In the current high-risk security climate, it is imperative that all organizations secure their privileged credentials, privileged accounts, and privileged sessions to protect their crown jewels. However, many traditional PAM solutions are failing to provide their intended value outside of these core use cases, because deployment is either too complex, too cost-prohibitive, or both. In the era of remote work, organizations need agile identity security solutions that can protect against cybersecurity threat vectors by monitoring, detecting, and preventing unauthorized privileged access to critical resources.

Keeper Security, a leading innovator in privileged access management, wanted to better understand how IT leaders are thinking about PAM, deploying their PAM solutions, and streamlining their PAM implementations. Keeper commissioned an independent research firm to survey 400 IT and data security leaders in North America and Europe about their strategies and plans for PAM in 2023.

The True Cost of Disruption is Massive.

When measuring the total cost of downtime, immediate service disruption is only the beginning. In a landscape of evolving threats, comprehensive protection is more important than ever for modern digital businesses. Traditional backup solutions no longer meet the needs of today’s businesses for disaster recovery. 

However, not every organization has the means to build their own datacenter or hire full-time DR specialists. Even for those that can, there are still benefits to replacing the direct and indirect costs of secondary sites with a predictable monthly expense for a specialized service.

For many organizations, DRaaS is an ideal solution. Our DRaaS 101 eBook describes in detail the benefits of DRaaS and the wide variety of models available through Zerto’s DRaaS providers—including an option that’s right for you.
Download this DRaaS 101 eBook now—it’s free!

Rethink Your Ransomware Resilience and Disaster Recovery Strategy

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the ability to detect when an attack has begun is critical to the ability to recover quickly. Attackers are constantly evolving their attack methods and traditional backup and recovery technologies simply can’t detect encryption quickly enough.

This free Gorilla Guide outlines the dangers of ransomware, the impacts to organizations, and the need to detect attacks as they are occurring in real-time. This Gorilla Guide topics include:

-    The growing threat of ransomware
-    Challenges of traditional data protection solutions
-    Comparing solutions
-    Real-time ransomware detection & recovery
-    Zerto as an all-in-one CDP solution

Understanding how early detection can help mitigate a ransomware attack and allow recovery more quickly is vital to any ransomware resilience strategy. Don’t become a victim of delayed ransomware detection by relying on periodic backup solutions.
Download the free Gorilla Guide now to get informed!

Many large enterprises are moving important applications from traditional physical servers to virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere in order to take advantage of key benefits such as configuration flexibility, data and application mobility, and efficient use of IT resources.

Realizing these benefits with business critical applications, such as SQL Server or SAP can pose several challenges. Because these applications need high availability and disaster recovery protection, the move to a virtual environment can mean adding cost and complexity and limiting the use of important VMware features. This paper explains these challenges and highlights six key facts you should know about HA protection in VMware vSphere environments that can save you money.

The primary goal of a multi-cloud data management strategy is to supply data, either via copying or moving data to the various multi-cloud use cases. A key enabler of this movement is the data management software applications. In theory, data protection applications can perform both of the copy and move functions. A key consideration is how the multi-cloud data management experience is unified. In most cases, data protection applications ignore the user experience of each cloud and use their proprietary interface as the unifying entity, which increases complexity.

There are a variety of reasons organizations may want to leverage multiple clouds. The first use case is to use public cloud storage as a backup mirror to an on-premises data protection process. Using public cloud storage as a backup mirror enables the organization to automatically off-site data. It also sets up many of the more advanced use cases.

Another use case is using the cloud for disaster recovery.

Another use case is “Lift and Shift,” which means the organization wants to run the application in the cloud natively. Initial steps in the “lift and shift” use case are similar to Dev/Test, but now the workload is storing unique data in the cloud.

Multi-cloud is a reality now for most organizations and managing the movement of data between these clouds is critical.

There are a number of limitations today keeping organizations from not only lifting and shifting from one cloud to another but also migrating across clouds. Organizations need the flexibility to leverage multiple clouds and move applications and workloads around freely, whether for data reuse or for disaster recovery. This is where the HYCU Protégé platform comes in. HYCU Protégé is positioned as a complete multi-cloud data protection and disaster recovery-as-a-service solution. It includes a number of capabilities that make it relevant and notable compared with other approaches in the market:

• It was designed for multi-cloud environments, with a “built-for-purpose” approach to each workload and environment, leveraging APIs and platform expertise.
• It is designed as a one-to-many cross-cloud disaster recovery topology rather than a one-to-one cloud or similarly limited topology.
• It is designed for the IT generalist. It’s easy to use, it includes dynamic provisioning on-premises and in the cloud, and it can be deployed without impacting production systems. In other words, no need to manually install hypervisors or agents.
• It is application-aware and will automatically discover and configure applications. Additionally, it supports distributed applications with shared storage. 

While VMware Horizon provides a powerful virtualization platform, technologies and capabilities like Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, authentication, DNS, network, group policy, and third-party apps must work seamlessly to provide a great digital employee experience. This eBook will focus on improving the logon duration for EUC and VDI deployments.

And view this solution page for more information. 

In this guide you will learn about Disaster Recovery planning with Zerto and its impact on business continuity.

In today’s always-on, information-driven business environment, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster – whether natural or man-made – is key to avoiding costly downtime and data loss.

-    The cost and business impact of downtime and data loss can be immense
-    See how to greatly mitigate downtime and data loss with proper DR planning, while achieving RTO’s of minutes and RPO’s of seconds
-    Data loss is not only caused by natural disasters, power outages, hardware failure and user errors, but more and more by man-made disasters such as software problems and cyber security attacks
-    Zerto’s DR solutions are applicable for both on-premise and cloud (DRaaS) virtual environments
-    Having a plan and process in place will help you mitigate the impact of an outage on your business

Download this guide to gain insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, especially in modern, virtualized environments and the public cloud.

The author of this Pathfinder report is Mike Fratto, a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Pathfinder reports navigate decision-makers through the issues surrounding a specific technology or business case, explore the business value of adoption, and recommend the range of considerations and concrete next steps in the decision-making process.

This report explores the following topics:

• the growth of already commonplace cloud usage for mission-critical applications
• the importance of cloud governance
• the top cloud security concerns for enterprises
• the adoption of third-party tools for cloud management
• the steps IT teams should take to make their cloud environments more secure and reliable

Vladimir Galabov, Director, Cloud and Data Center Research, and Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Emerging Technologies, are the co-authors of this eBook from Omdia, a data, research, and consulting business that offers expert analysis and strategic insight to empower decision-making surrounding new technologies.

This eBook covers the following topics:

• the current landscape of cloud computing, including the BIG problems
• the advantages of using a multi-cloud approach
• the dangers of shadow IT, including billing surprises and security breaches
• the move of mission-critical applications to the cloud
• the considerations regarding cloud security, including recommendations for IT teams

What Can IT Leaders Do to Counter Endpoint Cost Inflation?

"Inflation and supply chain challenges have resulted in device costs increasing up to 20% since the start of 2021, placing significant pressure on budgets for end-user computing. This research identifies three key actions IT leaders must take when faced with extreme budget pressures."

How can IT Leaders counter this endpoint inflation? Recommendations include producing a TCO report on endpoint devices and refreshing, not replacing old hardware.

This case study will cover the story of how Ootbi by Object First helped Mirazon cope with its business challenges. 

Ransomware attacks have been rising over the past years, reaching a point where an attack occurs every 11 seconds. This staggering statistic has proven that it is not a case of if but when, causing many corporations to seek resiliency. Furthermore, backups are now the primary target for ransomware. To address this vulnerability, Mirazon needed to properly secure not only their primary data, but also their backup data as well.

Contents

• What is a network digital twin?
• Outages are expensive and preventable
• A network digital twin saves time and money
• Time is money
• General use cases
  • Workflow automation
  • Inventory management
  • Automated compliance/audit
  • Change management
• Network security use cases
  • Security posture verification
  • Incident response
  • Vulnerability management
• Multi-cloud use cases
  • Continuous multi-cloud security audit
  • Service assurance
  • End-to-end visibility
• Network operations use cases
  • Path verification/analysis
  • Outage prevention
  • Troubleshooting

Discover the Essential Guide to VMware Migration

Transitioning from VMware to VergeOS requires careful planning to minimize disruption. Our guide provides a structured process for a smooth migration:

Key Sections of the Guide

1. Evaluation of Alternatives
   - Research and Trial: Identify and test virtualization solutions for performance, compatibility, features, and support.
   - Cost-Benefit Analysis: Compare costs and calculate ROI to evaluate benefits over VMware.

2. Planning the Migration
   - Detailed Plan: Outline timelines, resource allocation, and risk management.
   - Infrastructure Preparation: Ensure hardware and network compatibility

3. Execution and Post-Migration
   - Pilot Migration: Start with non-critical systems to test the process.
   - Full-Scale Migration: Schedule during low-usage periods, back up data, and execute the migration.
   - Post-Migration Testing: Verify functional and performance standards in the new environment.

4. Phased Migration Process
- Backup/DR: Use VergeOS for cost-effective backup and disaster recovery of the VMware environment.
- NAS Replacement: Replace Network Attached Storage with VergeOS.
- Testing: Test workloads for compatibility and performance.
- Conversion: Incrementally convert virtual machines, starting with low-priority workloads.

Download the full guide now to optimize your virtualization strategy.

The shift to SaaS and cloud computing allows enterprises to lower infrastructure costs and maintenance while improving efficiency and capabilities through scalable cloud data platforms. This move can also enhance productivity and workflow flexibility, enabling remote access to SaaS applications and data. However, it often leads to diversified endpoint operating systems, emphasizing the need for web browser access to SaaS applications. The adoption of IGEL's Secure Endpoint OS and Island's Enterprise Browser presents a modern solution for enterprises to optimize their digital workspaces and fully embrace this transformation.

In today's evolving threat landscape, organizations face significant challenges in securing their data and maintaining business continuity. Ransomware attacks in particular, pose a major risk that requires a robust, comprehensive defense strategy.

In this webinar, experts from HYCU, Nutanix, and Nutanix IT discuss best practices and solutions for achieving resilience, security, and recoverability. Learn how to boost your organization’s resilience, leverage cutting-edge tools, and ensure your business is prepared for any data challenges that come your way.

Attendees will come away with a playbook for building a tested business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan.

Key topics include:

• Implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for a robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan.
• Utilizing a multi-layered strategy to guarantee prompt recovery.
• Actionable best practices and insights from the Nutanix IT team.
• The importance of testing your recovery readiness to maintain business continuity.

HYCU® is named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for the 3rd time!

Explore the Gartner 2024 Magic Quadrant report for a comprehensive analysis of the enterprise backup and recovery market and discover why HYCU is again positioned as a Visionary.

HYCU believes their innovative approach to data protection and disaster recovery has earned them this recognition. Learn how HYCU is helping transform data protection with R-Cloud, designed to secure, and recover your data across all environments - from SaaS to on-premises to multi-cloud.

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights are reserved.

Previous titles include Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions (2022 - 2023).

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

There are many misconceptions about data deduplication, and making decisions based on those misconceptions can produce undesirable (and unplanned) results. For instance, deployment of the wrong type of deduplication typically results in:

•    Excessively high disk usage and using as much as three times the bandwidth for offsite replication, and the resulting impact on short and long-term costs
•    Slower backup storage ingest due to inline compute-intensive data deduplication that greatly slows backups down and expands the backup window
•    Slower restores, VM boots, and tape copies that can take hours or even days due to the time-consuming rehydration of deduplicated data
•    Backup windows that continue to expand with data growth

Choosing a Tiered Backup Storage solution will have a major impact on the cost and performance of your backup environment for the next three to five years because backups are written to a disk-cache Landing Zone for fastest backup performance, and then tiered to a deduplicated data repository to reduce storage and resulting storage costs.

A defense contractor with whom Coretek has had a long-standing relationship spanning nearly two decades had attempted to migrate to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment twice with another technology services provider without success. Impressed by Coretek’s success with VDI implementations in healthcare and other industries, the defense contractor turned to the solution provider for help.

Coretek's VDI offering has evolved significantly over the years to better support today's power users. Due to its industry leadership, IGEL OS is currently the standard for new customer VDI rollouts at Coretek. One of the things that the Coretek team appreciates most about IGEL OS is its high level of configurability, as well as IGEL’s commitment to staying current with trends in the EUC space by aligning IGEL OS with a broad ecosystem of leading vendors, including those providing unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and tools. In this particular case, IGEL OS, in combination with new Dell endpoint hardware, enabled Coretek to restore performance following a significant shift in the customer’s usage of its UCC tools.

The customer is currently utilizing high-performance VDI desktops, leveraging IGEL OS at the endpoint, to design defense equipment and support connectivity and collaboration through video conferencing. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ supports Zero Trust security approaches and partners with leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors to complement and reinforce these solutions from a security standpoint.

This detailed overview of CyberSense underscores the importance of adopting advanced detection technologies to stay ahead of cybercriminals and maintain operational integrity.

Security tools are necessary but often inadequate in detecting the latest ransomware variants, emphasizing the need for innovative ransomware detection strategies. CyberSense inspects data integrity at the content level, providing forensic insights and supporting rapid recovery and detects even the most sophisticated of ransomware variants. CyberSense targets ransomware behavior with deadly accuracy and reduces false positives and ensures both data and database integrity. CyberSense leverages over 200 analytics and machine learning to identify subtle anomalies and patterns of corruption. CyberSense integrates with existing data protection and security workflows, enhancing threat detection and response.

Shadow encryption was introduced in July 2021 when the ransomware gang Conti allegedly introduced LockFile. The LockFile ransomware variant used intermittent encryption to encrypt every 16 bytes of a file, leaving the rest unimpacted.This was specifically designed to evade detection by tools that look for obvious signs of encryption through unusual change in data compression rates.

Intermittent encryption changed the game as it was a challenge to detect. Data that was corrupted by LockFile did not generate the "signals" that most tools could detect and alert on. However, the bad actors didn't stop there. They continued to use technology to improve and advance their arsenals. Data encryption is a common approach to variants in their arsenals.With intermittent encryption being just the start, LockFile became one of the most prominent crime families in the ransomware game. Many took notice of this and continued to embrace shadow encryption and took it to the next level.

Around the same time that LockFile launched the Chaos ransomware variant was introduced. This variant took shadow encryption to the next level and utilized another form of shadow encryption based on Base64 algorithms. Base64 encoding helps conceal the true nature of ransomware corruption. By converting binary data into an ASCII string format, it makes the malicious code less recognizable to security tools and easily goes undetected. This approach deepened the bad actors shadow encryption strategies and generated great success in impacting organizations and forcing them to pay ransoms.

Innovative AI Strategies Supporting Trusted Data Recovery`

The Challenge: Evolving Threat Landscape: Ransomware attacks are more sophisticated than ever, targeting critical data with stealth and precision. Traditional data protection strategies often fail to detect corruption, leaving businesses vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and significant financial impact.

Protect your data and your business—explore CyberSense today. Download the whitepaper to learn more.

The CyberSense Advantage: CyberSense offers proven AI-powered protection, ensuring unmatched accuracy and resilience:

• 99.99% Detection Accuracy: Identify ransomware-induced corruption with precision.
• Real-Time Data Integrity Checks: Analyze data at the binary level to detect even the most advanced attack patterns.
• Rapid, Confident Recovery: Forensic insights enable swift recovery of clean data, minimizing downtime and impact.

Why Choose CyberSense? Trust that you will have best possible recovery in the wake of a cyberattack.

In today’s digital age, secure access to sensitive data, applications, and networks from anywhere is crucial for government and military entities. With the rise of remote work and mobile workforces, the number of security breaches has only increased, leaving more government endpoints at risk.

In this white paper, dive deeper into how Stratodesk NoTouch can provide end-users in federal and local government as well as in the military with extraordinary user experience on their endpoint devices while offering tight security and control amid budget cuts.

A Thin Client is a compact, secure desktop computer that operates using a Thin Client Operating System. Unlike traditional PCs, Thin Clients do not store sensitive data or applications locally. Instead, all data and applications are securely hosted in an on-premises or cloud-based data center, seamlessly integrating with your Windows or SaaS environment. This architecture enhances security by minimizing the risk of data breaches, theft, or unauthorized access.

One of the key advantages of Thin Clients is their efficiency. Compared to conventional desktop PCs, Thin Clients are significantly smaller, consume less power, and generate minimal noise. Their streamlined design not only reduces the physical footprint in the workspace but also lowers energy costs, making them an environmentally friendly alternative. Additionally, Thin Clients require less maintenance and fewer hardware upgrades, translating to long-term cost savings for organizations.

Thin Clients also simplify IT management. With centralized control, IT teams can efficiently monitor, update, and troubleshoot devices across multiple locations without the need for on-site maintenance. This reduces IT overhead, allowing staff to focus on strategic initiatives rather than time-consuming hardware support.

So why choose a Thin Client? With enhanced security, reduced costs, simplified IT management, and greater efficiency, Thin Clients are an intelligent choice for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure while improving productivity and security.

The "Top 7 Trends in Endpoint Security for 2023" report provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of endpoint protection. It emphasizes the increasing importance of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), which operates on the principle that no user or device should be inherently trusted, thereby enhancing security through strict access controls and continuous monitoring.

The report also highlights the shift towards cloud-native endpoint security, offering scalability and real-time protection, especially vital with the rise of remote work. Additionally, the adoption of thin-managed operating systems is discussed, noting their role in reducing attack surfaces by securely connecting to cloud-based resources.

The integration of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms is presented as a means to streamline security operations by consolidating data from various sources. Furthermore, the report underscores the significance of a human-centric approach to security, advocating for comprehensive employee training and fostering a culture of security awareness.

Advancements in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions are also covered, highlighting features like proactive threat hunting and automated responses. Lastly, the report discusses the role of security orchestration and automation in improving incident response times and operational efficiency.

This comprehensive guide covers the key aspects of migration, including the reasons for making the switch, licensing differences, architectural comparisons, image management, migration techniques, connectivity options, and other crucial factors.

You’ll also find a step-by-step walkthrough with direct links and screenshots to simplify the process and make the migration feel less daunting with Nerdio.

Why are organizations moving from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop + Nerdio?

• Lower costs and increase flexibility
• Get the most from your Microsoft investment with a top Microsoft partner
• Manage, deploy, and scale customer environments effortlessly
• Enhance performance and end-user experience
  

• Why VMware’s approach to SDN stalled adoption due to licensing fees, complexity, and hardware overhead.
• How VergeFabric, built into VergeOS, eliminates the need for dedicated SDN appliances or controller VMs.
• The advantages of VM-level segmentation and VDC-level security without VLAN sprawl or manual firewall rules.
• How VergeOS extends cost savings beyond the hypervisor by integrating compute, storage, and networking into a single platform.
• Why multi-site connectivity and disaster recovery are simplified with built-in SDN.

Achieve the Modern Workplace with Recast Software is a guide designed to help IT leaders and professionals transform their complex IT environments into secure, agile, and efficient digital workspaces. This eBook explores the evolution of IT management, emphasizing how modern tools and strategies can streamline operations and enhance security.

Key Focus Areas Include:

• Unified Endpoint Management: Learn how to centralize control over both company-issued and BYOD devices using platforms like Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager. Discover strategies to reduce overhead while improving visibility and operational efficiency.

• Advanced Security Solutions: Explore proactive threat detection, AI-driven compliance checks, and automated security protocols. The ebook delves into tools like the Recast Copilot for Security Plugin that work hand-in-hand with Microsoft’s security enhancements to protect your digital workspace.

• Streamlined Application Management: Understand how to simplify application deployment and management. With features like automated updates and self-service portals, IT teams can ensure that software remains current and secure with minimal manual effort.

• Digital Transformation for Modern IT: Uncover the broader framework of the modern workplace that goes beyond mere AI integration. The ebook emphasizes productivity, collaboration, and the need for a secure, adaptable IT infrastructure that meets today’s dynamic business challenges.

What You’ll Gain:

• Actionable Insights: Clear, practical steps to overcome common IT challenges and achieve a seamless transition to modern endpoint management.

• Enhanced Efficiency: Strategies to unify disparate IT environments and streamline management processes.

• Improved Security Posture: Techniques to bolster your organization’s defenses against evolving cyber threats.

By focusing on these critical areas, this eBook serves as a resource for IT professionals aiming to future-proof their digital operations while maximizing return on investment. Embrace a new era of IT management with solutions that bring together robust security, streamlined processes, and an agile approach to digital transformation.

In the current landscape, IT leaders—even those who have already embraced virtualization—face some difficult questions.  

Given the growing popularity, simplicity, and consistent user experience of Microsoft Windows 365 (W365), is it worth fully transitioning to it? Or does it make more sense to retain the control and flexibility that Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and other
virtualization platforms provide?

How hard is it to manage a virtual computing ecosystem where some users are on AVD, some are on W365, and a small number
still use their physical desktops? What’s the simplest and most cost-effective course of action?

This guide was designed to give you the insights you need to make an informed decision for your organization.