Category: Blog for Business Leaders - NetCraftsmen

Can Eliminating Passwords Help Increase Zero Trust Adoption?

Background In Managing Security in the Age of Zero Trust, NetCraftsmen introduced Zero Trust as a data-centric approach to security, but it’s much more than that. Who you are, where [...]

Getting Started with Automation – Streamlining Network Operations

Adopting Automation Automation offers a promise of cost savings, reduction in errors, and faster implementations. However, many organizations are reluctant to adopt automation, often because, if it is not properly [...]

What is Stopping your Organization from Reaching Zero Trust?

Peter Drucker, the management guru who has been described as “the founder of modern management,” is often credited with the quote “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” When it comes to [...]

Is Network Automation Essential for Network Security?

If your business is not using network automation, there’s a good chance that there’s a security vulnerability lurking in your network. Remember the T-Mobile data breach? It started through an [...]

Solving “Impossible” IT Challenges: Slow Application Performance

You’ve heard it before: “The application is slow!” It’s impacting the business and is frustrating for employees. Both application and network teams say they can’t find problems in their respective [...]

Solving “Impossible” IT Challenges: Slow Internet Streaming Performance

Your business has a problem. Your IT Department is reporting slow performance for internet streaming applications. It’s impacting your operations and is frustrating for employees. No one has solved it, [...]

Guiding Your Company Through the Log4j Vulnerability

The vulnerability found in the Log4j logging system should be old news for you at this point. However, what your company does about it is still worthy of your attention. [...]

Aligning Your Technology Strategy with Your Business Strategy

A question that is often posed to CIOs is: “What is our technology strategy?” Usually, this question is tied to a specified technology area, such as, “What is our Cloud [...]

Managing Security in the Age of Zero Trust

Zero Trust is a data-centric approach to security. This involves identifying the data assets that need protection and creating a data classification policy. With this information an Enterprise Information Security [...]

Security Audit Compliance Does Not Equate to Low Security Risk

Your organization has passed a security audit by a reputable auditing team. Is your IT infrastructure safe? Not necessarily. Compliance Standards vs. Current Best Practices IT infrastructure security recommendations are [...]

Building a Continuous Vulnerability Management Strategy

In IT, the one constant that we must learn to accept is change. Sometimes change is incremental and sometimes change can fundamentally transform how we do business on a global [...]

Managing the Zero Trust Edge

The Zero Trust Edge (ZTE) model is a concept described by David Holmes and Andre Kindness from Forrester in their paper “Introducing The Zero Trust Edge Model For Security And [...]