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 ESDS Security Operations Center services are wise choice to protect your business from all attacks and respond to threats.

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Networking Defined By Software: Seven Ways to Implement Them

 Networking Defined By Software

 

In few IT groups, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is still viewed as a hypothetical idea or vaporware to a great extent. Even though SDN  is valid multiple fields, the truth is that we now have few circumstances where SDN can be utilised – and you will be able to see several cases in the coming years. What was previously just another buzzword expressed by IT marketing experts, has now transformed into a practical idea which most of us can make use in organization networks.

Who can precisely derive the benefits from SDN deployments today? There are many factors playing an important role in answering this question. For one, a small portion of your network architecture must be fit for utilising software-defined technologies or can be redesigned to permit such centralised orchestration.

The widest areas where SDN can be applied today is either inside the datacenter or at the WAN control. While it’s feasible for SDN to loosen up completely to the access layer, few networks have suitable hardware in access closets. In any case, that shouldn’t prevent us from considering practical uses. What’s more is once your next network recharge comes around, you will be prepared to take benefits of SDN capacities that are arid.

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Data Privacy or Data Security: Which One is Important for You?

In recent years, organizations of all sizes have been impacted by data breaches & leaks, which have resulted in significant monetary & non-monetary damages. Business heads, CIOs, and CISOs and their data are always on the brink of a cyber attack since the number of cybercriminals has increased multi-folds. Such data breaches & leaks can cause a significant dent in a brand’s image, resulting in both monetary & non-monetary losses. Data protection and data security are important for safeguarding critical data against these forms of online attacks.

What is Cybersecurity?

Every day a lot of valuable information is uploaded & exchanged over the Internet, exposing their integrity & confidentiality. Cybersecurity includes all the protective measures deployed to secure the digital and web assets against all forms of online threats & human-induced errors. The web assets also need to be secured against privilege escalations and unauthorized users. This is when Information Security comes into the picture, depicting the practices of preventing all unauthorized access, modification, or destruction of information in any form.

Pillars of Information Security

The following pillars of Information Security are also known as the CIA Triad, which has to be addressed for obtaining satisfactory levels of information security.

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5 Easy Hacks to prevent WannaCry Ransomware Attacks and keep your System Safe!

 

Ransomware Prevention Hacks!

Hackers are using ransomware to hold your computer files and demand money in return. It has been witnessed that the first quarter of 2016, hackers were busy creating new domains and sub domains attacking the genuine ones for their ransomware operations.

 
There are a variety of ransomware attacks; however, everything ends up to social engineering tactics or using software vulnerabilities to soundlessly deploy on victim’s machine.

Ransomware attacks are very daunting. Encrypted data can be considered damaged beyond repair. However, prevention is better than cure. Having your system properly prepared will help you in curbing such attacks. Here are some ways to keep ransomware away from your machine.

Data Backup

The only biggest weapon to defeat ransomware is to regularly Backup your data. If attacked by ransomware, you will lose all your data. But, with backups you can start from where you left and restore all the lost data and rest easy. Backing up data not only protects you from ransomware but also in case of other disasters like theft, accidental deletion, flood, fire etc.

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Is Cybersecurity Affecting International Relations?

History says nations have always been aware of their enemies. In the era where the world is shifting towards digitisation, these outright physical attacks are also moving towards digital wars. In other words, the nations are waging wars with the third world countries; which has started entering the realm of cyber warfare. A survey predicts, one-third of the human population on this globe is accessing an active internet connection, and this number is said to increase to 1.5 billion more by 2020. This has resulted into hacking becoming one of the powerful means to take political and economic advantages over enemy nations. With the increasing number of internet users and Internet of Things innovations, there are more threats of cyber criminals hacking the information.The internet expansion in 1990 lead the hackers to explore the various methodologies to play cyber pranks and explore the cyber crime.

Any idea of how cybersecurity has an impact on international relations? Cyber criminals have targeted famous faces like Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump,and also, the nations and its data security has been a significant concern.Thus, countries have been keen on making Cybersecurity as an integral part of governments national defence. Also, Cybersecurity is built as a new domain of warfare.

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Demystifying Data Security for Dummies

One concern that some people who want to undertake cloud computing have data security. While this is a valid concern, it shouldn’t stop you from undertaking cloud computing. Although, in the past, data security was a concern in the cloud computing industry, with new advancements in the field, it’s become a cinch for businesses to handle.

 

Most cloud computing stakeholders agree that data security in the cloud is now considered more advanced and better than that of corporate networks.

Whether or not your data is secure in the cloud is a moot issue. What matters is the cloud computing provider that you are using. Cloud computing providers will implement data protection measures such as the following. They will:

• Allow users to define the permissions attached to their data
• Provide encryption to protect against unauthorized access to stored data
• Offer data protection when it is in transit
• Provide firewalls to protect against outside data attack that are launched against the cloud
• Reinforce servers to protect against every imaginable threat

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eNlight Internet of Things platform

Internet of Things platform

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Model For Building A Cloud Infrastructure

 

While our country can be called a “cloud country” solely in terms of its climate. In the development of cloud computing, our country has not yet succeeded. Nevertheless, to attribute the cloud to the number of unpromising directions for our country would be premature and erroneous. Just the opposite: that “cloud computing” may be popular as anywhere in the world, and there are several prerequisites.

Factor of geographical distribution, logically, should be the main catalyst for the transition to “cloud services“. It is in terms of territorial fragmentation minimize the costs of providing IT services is becoming increasingly important. Construction of large data centers and the creation of “cloud services” on their basis will lead to an increase in supply in the market that will make cloud computing more accessible and economically beneficial for both business and private users.

Now efforts have been made to improve the accessibility of state institutions and their services for citizens. Instruments of such integration processes should serve as information portals that are created on the principle of “single windows“. They can become a single access point for information exchange between public authorities and consumers of their services. For the functioning of such information systems in a distributed environment, you need to create a distributed and adaptive execution environment, the role which can take on a cloud for a vertically integrated structures (government, health care, e-governance services, tax and customs services, etc.).

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managed network security

 ESDS Security Operations Center services are wise choice to protect your business from all attacks and respond to threats.

How AI and Machine Learning help build a Smart City?

Rise of the Smart City

The digital advancement in today’s age has brought a lot of attention to the concept of smart cities.  In order to drive the economic and social growth of cities, the governing bodies have mobilized modern technologies to provide core infrastructure and give a quality life to its citizen.  And not just giving quality life, the smart cities also enhance business competitiveness and environmental sustainability.

A smart city is defined as an amalgamation of data and digital technology to address arising city problems, from healthcare, road infrastructure, public transportation, security, and education to waste management.  The smart city is a way of empowering individuals, organizations, or systems to be self-sufficient and futuristic with the consumption of the latest technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.  These technologies acquire a massive amount of data which is used to upgrade the systems and components that run the cities and make them capable of making intelligent decisions without much human intervention.

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