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December 11, 2019
The Role of Cloud in Disaster Recovery One of the most significant mistakes a business can make is neglecting to create a disaster recovery (DR) plan. The “it’ll never happen to me” mentality is all too prevalent. (Take it from us – we’ve seen the effects of not having a plan in place for a damaging event.) The “disaster” in disaster recovery doesn’t just mean a flood or a fire – disaster can come in the form of hum[…]
November 26, 2019
How Digital Transformation Can Uplift Your 2020 Business Operations 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade – one in which we are sure to see continued, massive advances in technology. As technology evolves, businesses have the ever-consuming task of keeping up with the latest and greatest to decide if it's right for them. Even if your business isn't trying to implement the sleekest, newest technologies, you're at least likely trying to keep u[…]
November 5, 2019
Welcome to Enterprise Visions, Doug Plooster! We are thrilled to announce the Enterprise Visions team is expanding – this time with Doug Plooster as our new Senior Vice President! Doug comes to us from serving as President and Partner at Network Access Products for 14 years. There, he helped transform and grow the company into a global managed services provider offering services to hundreds of customers across thousands of[…]
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October 29, 2019
These Three Cloud Technologies Are the Future of Communications There is an overwhelming number of cloud-based communications solutions out there today. Choosing the right one can be difficult! As a decision-maker, you’re flooded with technology options, and all of them seem like they can help in different ways. But among all the collaboration solutions are three distinct ones to consider. Here we explain why Cisco Teams, Microsoft Teams, a[…]
October 24, 2019
Enterprise Visions Wins Central U.S. Award From Intelisys We're thrilled to announce that Enterprise Visions has received the 2019 Top Growth Partner for the Central Region from Intelisys. Announced at Channel Connect 2019 – the industry's premier networking event in Monterey, California in September – this award reinforces our commitment to our customers from Minnesota to Texas and beyond. Ron Beltz, Principal at Enterprise Visions s[…]
October 15, 2019
Enterprise Visions Has Achieved a New Milestone Enterprise Visions is thrilled to announce that we have achieved Platinum Partner status with our master agent, Intelisys. Platinum Partner status means we have joined Intelisys' $1 million club – generating $1 million a month in recurring revenue. We are the 20th technology advisor to achieve this status, and we are grateful to all our customers for their business which has he[…]
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September 9, 2019
The incident response plan outlined at the bottom of this post is a snippet from a generic plan I found on Google. It is a plan created by Virginia Tech. In its entirety, it is 41 pages long. Try flipping through that when you are under attack! Can you guess how long each step below will take your IT group, without help? One can imagine that the times can vary widely depending […]
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September 9, 2019
It surprises me how many tools companies use for cyber security are just logging tools. Sure, logging should be one part of your security posture, but it is unwise to rely on logging for the total solution. So, if logging from tools like Splunk, LogRhythm and AlienVault were valuable from a forensic standpoint, why is the logging that is collected so often inadmissible in court[…]
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August 26, 2019
Layers 5-7 are where applications reside and where attacks on them take place. Interestingly, many vendors’ cybersecurity tools also reside here. Some vendors put the instructions on how to install their agents or virtual appliances on their web site. You will see that they are installed in the Program Files” folder - Layer 7. Virtual Appliances in the cloud reside on an instan[…]
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August 26, 2019
Your Network Optimization Plan Begins with SDN You may have heard of software-defined networking (SDN) and its ability to simplify some of the complexity associated with cloud environments. SDN separates the control plane and the forwarding plane of the network, so administrators have more control and more opportunities to improve application performance. SDN allows enterprises to bypass the public internet and connect to t[…]
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