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 PPT, not death by slideshow, but People, Process, and Technology. Though basic sounding, it is much easier said than done. Skilled people are in high demand, effective processes require experienced people with the right to
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 search, or self-driving cars; it is probably the most chameleonesque technology our generation has seen outside of the trojan. Doing research with a client recently, I was alarmed to discover that error rates for image labe
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 Today they have been replaced by laptops, tablets and SmartBoards; my children have never known school without technology.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 going to happen when these tech-ready youngsters start looking for a place to work? IGI Global defines the Digital Generation [link] as “The generation of people that have grown up with easy access to digital information an
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 over the last year. There are many factors to this, but the big three that are initially driving most discussions and are addressed by most of the vendors in the market today are: simplicity from deployment to management
