Author: Admin

Image: Funtap/Adobe Stock Virtual private network usage has exploded in the past couple of years. According to a recent study completed by AtlasVPN, VPN downloads reached 785 million in 2021, a 184% increase YoY when compared to 277 million in 2020. Why the surge? Privacy and network security are two of the most important reasons behind the increase. The rise of remote work due to COVID-19 and the increase in cybercrime brought upon by new…

Image: Adobe Stock Must-read security coverage As companies went remote at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it quickly became obvious that enterprise VPNs aren’t effective for remote workers, with some organizations having to limit employees to connecting on alternate days to avoid overloading VPN capacity. Shifting resources that were on the office network to the cloud makes remote access easier and more efficient. But, the traditional remote desktop solutions a lot of organizations rely…

Organizations are struggling to manage devices and stay ahead of vulnerabilities, patches and attacks, according to a new report from Adaptiva and the Ponemon Institute. Image: Song_about_summer/Adobe Stock Device sprawl is becoming a costly security headache with the average enterprise now managing approximately 135,000 endpoint devices, a new report finds. Despite $4,252,500 of annual budget spent on endpoint protection, an average of 48% of devices — or 64,800 per enterprise — are at risk because…

Your smartphone comes with built-in location services, which are useful if you lose it or if you use an app that needs to know your location. But what if you don’t want your phone to be tracked? Can the phone be located if you turn off location services? The answer is yes, it’s possible to track mobile phones even if location services are turned off.  Turning off the location service on your phone can help…