
Who's Down with PPT?
Building upon last month’s call for integration of point products for a more effective security posture, I want to dive into more detail on the topic and describe a base level solution given common restrictions for the mid-market. To review, in order to effectively prevent threats, quickly detect unprevented threats, and recover from the aftermath one needs a combination of skilled people, executing always-improving processes, with advanced technologies. I refer to this as PP

What Artificial Intelligence Can't Supplement
With #WEB30 now in our rear-view mirror, I’ve been thinking much about the technological advancements I’ve witnessed in the last two decades. For the trailing five years in particular, I’ve been fascinated with the impact AI has had on our society. While today, AI has been highly influenced by FANG, it’s pervasive and getting rather eerie. When it comes to AI, whether it’s Netflix’s “recommendations”, Amazon’s “other customers purchased”, the first few letters of a Google sea

The Rise of the Digital Workforce
Back in the day…so it goes, we had text books, chalkboards and pads of paper. Today they have been replaced by laptops, tablets and SmartBoards; my children have never known school without technology. Some of us are old enough to remember passing notes of paper around a classroom and now it’s all texting or whatever latest Social Media app. Hand a child of today any piece of technology and it will amaze you how quickly they pick up the skill without coaching. So what’s goi

Securing SD WAN
Over the last six to 12 months Katalyst has seen a large uptick in meaningful SD-WAN conversations with our customers. This reflects what the market trends are showing based on IHS Markit’s survey last year, which states that nearly 3 out of 4 respondents had conducted SD-WAN trials, many of which have already begun to move towards production trials and full production rollouts. We haven't seen a technology being adopted and make such an impact in our market than SD-WAN has