Digital Transformation Paves the Way for the Finance Industry

 With the outbreak of COVID-19, Digital Transformation has created an overwhelming buzz across the business world including the BFSI sector. Digital players in the finance industry have resolved the customer’s struggle to get access to the funds. Technological innovations have paved the way for new services disrupting the traditional ones.

Transforming the traditional banking processes, fintech has emerged to be the most effective lending channel. Easing the common person’s struggle to get access to funds, fintech has unlocked various opportunities to trap the huge volumes of substantial customer databases leading to a strong digital foundation.

India being one of the fastest-growing economies, Fintech platforms are scaling up at a greater position. Delivering a wide range of market opportunities for both innovative and traditional lenders, the new-age lending platforms have catered to a large segment of online banking customers.  

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Brace Yourselves for the Upcoming Cybersecurity Trends

2018 is coming to an end, and as usual, the arena of cybersecurity is having some new trends coming up. As digital threats are also getting up to a new level, we need security experts to adopt and implement future solutions.

Now, the trends like AI, Biometrics, and IoT have been there as always, but these are evolving to a new level every year which is impacting the related sectors. Further, the zero-trust model and GDPR compliance related legislation are in a boom.

Upcoming Cybersecurity Trends for 2019

Identity management, application improvement, and creating efficient and intelligent threat-management solutions are some of the areas where AI is expanding the cybersecurity arena.

2018 has been a great year for the capital funding of cybersecurity projects. This October 2018 saw an investment of $3.3 billion. Investors are willing to splurge more into this technology as well as security is the crucial concern of every industry.

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Indian Data Centers’ Expansion and Growth

 

Data Center Market in India

In recent years, the Data Center market in India has witnessed robust growth due to Advanced Technologies’ broad adoption for creating digitally intelligent enterprises. Every industry vertical is adopting and taking advantage of this technology for driving their growth and combat competitiveness. India is the second-fastest emerging digital economy with multiple new initiatives undertaken by Government Institutions, Banks, and Enterprises, which generate a huge volume of data. With such vast volumes of data being generated, the question of Data Security emerges too. Hence, as a result, the industry leaders have shifted their focus towards the state-of-the-art Data Center facilities in India for securely storing their data.

Demand for Data Localization and the emergence of indigenous Cloud & Data Center providers like ESDS has driven the growth of Data Centers in India. Additionally, migrating critical databases, applications, and other data along with the usage of virtualization technologies have increased the demand for Data Center Services in India.

India is the upcoming biggest Data Center market with multiple reasons contributing to it. With technological advancements taking place, setting up Data Centers becomes challenging due to distance, operations, security risks, and higher operating costs.

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ERP License and SaaS Cloud Subscription – Pros and Cons

 WHAT IS ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP)?

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one of the productivity-enhancing applications used by businesses. Every manufacturer needs ERP to automate their workflow by linking all departments and ensuring improved profits through operational productivity and cost control. When it comes to ERP in today’s world, you have a lot of choices – not just in terms of vendors and products, but also in terms of how the program will be approved and deployed.

One critical decision is whether to use cloud-hosted ERP or install the application on-premise on your own servers (or third party hosted servers). Each of these alternatives has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Financial considerations, functionality, security concerns, personal preference, or a combination of these factors can influence your deployment decision.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLOUD ERP vs ON-PREMISE ERP?

The primary distinction between these ERP solutions is the method of deployment. Cloud ERP bases on the cloud and is typically provided directly from the ERP publisher or its hosting partner (online host and typically accessed via a secure web browser or online login). Instead of installing ERP on your servers and machines, it will be hosted by the provider, and your business will access it through a mobile app, a web browser, or both.

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Why has my site been blacklisted by Google?

 What does Blacklisting mean?

 
Blacklisting of the website takes place when a website has been removed from their index by the search engine. Generally, there are individuals who are responsible for maintaining websites, called Webmasters and they pay attention to all such banned websites. It is necessary to pay attention because a website loses about 95 percent of its traffic if blacklisted. It also has a huge impact on profit generation and sales of the enterprises. Are you worried about your website too? ESDS has a solution for you. You can check your domain’s blacklisting status with ESDS’ VTMScan. ESDS VTMScan will check for blacklisting status as well as for all the malware intrusions.

When do domains get blacklisted?

Websites get banned when certain irregularities are found on the website and they are generally assumed to be a Malware. A website can be hacked in various forms such as trojans, phishing attacks, email spamming and even scraping information. A lot of times even the domain owners are not attentive about their own sites being hacked. Search engines such as Google, Bing, etc generally do not show harmful results. This is done in order to retain customers at the same time it is made sure that user’s computers are kept away from all the harm.

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Cloud Compliances – The Modern-Day Success Mantra

After going through the topic, one might wonder how Cloud-based compliances have a role to play in the success of an organization. Read the upcoming section to understand why Cloud compliances are considered the modern-day success mantra for any organization.

Ensuring Cloud compliances has been a significant challenge for many organizations. The inevitable demand for Cloud compliances rises as soon as a user migrates his critical data and applications to cloud hosting. Earlier, the Cloud Service Providers or CSPs didn’t throw weight on the data security or whether they aligned to industry compliances and regulations. Their main focus centered around offering data storage in the Cloud to the end-users. With the increasing demand for strict data laws across nations, Cloud Service Providers are now offering their Cloud hosting services in line with the latest industry compliances.

Determining Success with Cloud Compliances

1. Well-Defined Understanding of Regulations and Guidelines

A critical aspect of Cloud Computing involves various industry standards and regulations that everyone must adhere to. These regulations can be local, national, or even globally accepted ones. The local and national compliances may be true for a particular nation or group of nations, but the global ones need to be mandatorily followed. With advancements in technologies, CSPs are dealing with Cloud Compliances through expert teams. Such dedicated compliance teams ensure all compliance requirements of a business are met.

From the user’s perspective, he must be well aware of compliance policies and procedures. User’s CSP needs to be consistently compliant with the latest standards and must have all the supporting documents for these compliances and standards.

2. Restricting Access Controls

The absence of improper authentication and privileged access often become the primary source of data breaches taking place within an organization. MFA or Multi-Factor Authentication strategies are often apprehended as complicated and time-consuming. Advanced security mechanisms like MFA can be highly beneficial in avoiding all major security threats. Single Sign-On or SSO is a convenient option to consider but can also elevate hacking chances if the user credentials are compromised or hacked.

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Secure Your Web Applications Against Online Threats with eNlight WAF

 Cyber-attackers are constantly targeting user web applications and websites with the ill intent to gain access to sensitive business information. These increasing numbers of data breaches have kept the top-management, and other business decision-makers worried. To avoid all such losses, ESDS has developed eNlight WAF, a specially-engineered & first of a kind Cloud-hosted WAF. This Cloud-hosted WAF filters out all the incoming and outgoing web traffic by restricting malicious threats like SQL Injections, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks.

eNlight WAF allows the users to create their own rules for blocking all web attacks with minimal latency towards page response. eNlight WAF ensures source IP reputation and blocks all blacklisted, spammer and TOR networks. It is a highly cost-effective secure solution that allows users to pay only for utilized resources like CPU, Bandwidth and RAM.

Salient Features of eNlight WAF

·         Virtual Patching

ESDS eNlight WAF generates a set of rules for rectifying the identified vulnerabilities from an uploaded vulnerability scanner report

·         Backed by Machine Learning

Using mathematical algorithms, eNlight WAF uses an approach for learning and modeling typical traffic along with detection of any abnormal requests

·         Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is integrated with eNlight WAF that allows the system administrators to identify any form of risky behavior and accordingly develop effective filtering policies

·         Load Distribution

Using the HA-Proxy, eNlight WAF distributes all of the incoming traffic across several nodes present in the cluster, which is then dispatched to a farm of web servers

·         Secure Applications and Websites

Users can add multiple applications and websites using customized configurations. A simple and easy-to-understand dashboard helps in easy setup and management of web assets with ease

Value-Added Benefits of eNlight WAF

·         Auto-Scalable WAF Solution- eNlight Cloud, the world’s first dual-patented Cloud hosting platform, supports eNlight WAF, which allows scalability of applications as per demand

·         Auto Protection- Auto protection protects user’s websites against OWASP Top-10 Vulnerabilities and other online threats. The user needs to add his IP or subnet for granting/denying access to any website

·         Cost-Effective Solution- With eNlight WAF, there is no need for any additional hardware or applications as it works on a pay-per-use model

·         Enhanced Protection Against Browser Hacking- With eNlight WAF, users can terminate their SSL connection without incurring much overheads or latency

Leverage eNlight WAF today and secure your critical data hosted on websites and web applications against all online threats and vulnerabilities.

eNlight Web VPN

 

A Secure Remote Access to Digital Transformation

Amidst COVID-19, technological innovations have not only transformed the way business is done but have enhanced hacking techniques. The threat of security breaches with an extended perimeter of workplaces is a reality everyone is facing. To ensure a secure remote working environment, ESDS offers a clientless SSL VPN solution called eNlightWebVPN.

What is eNlight Web VPN?

ESDS eNlightWebVPN is the first client-less SSL VPN solution with built-in WAF (Web Application Firewall) delivering multi-factor authentication securing your remote working environment from OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities. Eliminating the need to deploy hardware and software in every device, ESDS eNlightWebVPN becomes the cost-effective solution. Deploy this software-defined solutionon public Cloud, on-premise, or hybrid cloud ensuring private secure access to your desktop.

Problems in the Existing System?

 

·         Client Based: Installation of VPN client on every device

·         User Frustration: Service delivery delay due to application slowness and performance issues

·         Security and Scalability: Application security on the internet a major concern for businesses with high scalability and availability

·         High Pricing: Client-based and clientless VPN solutions are costly

·         User Analytics:  Unable to get a complete real-time overview of all remote access users 

What Do We Offer?

·         Clientless: No need to install any VPN client

·         High Security: Multi-factor authentication Built-in WAF preventing OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

·         Cost-Effective: Reduced VPN cost as hardware or software are not deployed on every device

Why Should You Choose eNlight Web VPN?

 

·         Supports Windows, MAC, Linux, and mobile OS

·         Supports HTML5 applications, Websocket, RDP, FTP protocols, CGI applications

·         Integrate with multiple identity providers simultaneously (AD, LDAP, Radius, etc.)

·         Multifactor authentication with SMS and Email OTP

·         Time-based OTP with Google and Microsoft Authenticator

·         WAF protects from OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

·         Granular Application Access Control

 URL:

https://www.esds.co.in/enlight-webvpn

 

Tips to safeguard your Joomla website

Let’s first understand what Joomla is and how does it help to build a website?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is an open source system that can manage content efficiently. Joomla is also used for development of websites and applications that are supported on line. Technically, Joomla consists of two templates, a front-end template which is made user friendly and a back-end template which is mostly used by the administrators of the website. Joomla is created using PHP (designing the front end), Object Oriented Programming language (for coding), MySQL (for storing data).

What is Content Management System (CMS)?

It is a software that is capable of keeping track of all the data. Data can be in various forms such as text, images, document, etc. This data is available on the site. CMS also helps in editing, altering and publishing the content of website.

Generally, Joomla is used for developing websites of different kinds and sizes. Joomla can be used for development of following:

• Sites and portals for Corporates
• Start-ups and small-sized business websites
• Magazines, newspapers, and publications that have an online presence
• E-commerce sites and online booking & reservations
• Websites for government, NGO’s and organizations

Open source softwares are free to use, distribute and modify. It has a lower cost compared to the cost of its proprietary counterparts. But at the same time, it is subjected to getting attacked. Taking precautions before your website gets hacked and working on how to improvise its Security is extremely necessary.

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Technological Advancements to boom the Backup and Disaster Recovery Software Market by 2025

 

The dawn of the internet has revolutionised the way data stored and consumed. The rise of the digital era has led to the acceptance of cloud computing over the traditional means of data storage. But, the raised concern with cloud computing is data privacy and security. Consider, if you lose your irreplaceable data. Won’t you be embarrassed to explain this failure to your clients? And how do you think your clients would react? They might be a little frustrated. Also, they may switch to some other company for business. So, data loss and data recovery failure may adversely affect your relations with your clients.

In order to have continuous access to your data even after the disaster takes place, backup and disaster recovery software is the appropriate solution. Cloud disaster recovery is a security measure that involves maintaining copies of electronic records in a cloud computing environment. Cloud disaster recovery aims to enable an enterprise to recover the lost data or implement failover in case of human errors or natural calamity.

The idea of backup was established with the birth of data itself. Initially, floppy disks, backup CDs and DVDs were the means of technology for data backup. Later, USBs came into existence and now dedicated backup appliances, and remote backup repositories are used. The backup market has seen explosive growth due to technological innovations. The last few years have seen some exciting changes in the world of disaster recovery. A survey from 2018 predicts global data backup and recovery market is expected to reach $18.21 billion by 2025.

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