Category: Blog for Business Leaders - NetCraftsmen

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 [...]

Zero Trust Architecture: In Brief

The Zero Trust security model is a concept that has been around for several decades but was popularized by John Kindervag’s seminal paper Build Security Into Your Network’s DNA: The [...]

Expecting More from Your Managed Services Provider

Outsourcing IT functions to managed service providers (MSPs) is hardly a new phenomenon. Organizations have leveraged MSPs to supplement their operational needs for decades. The MSP model, carried forward from [...]

Evaluating the ROI of Network Automation

We’d all like automated processes to save labor, eliminate errors, reduce the elapsed time from the request to its implementation and save money compared to manual methods, but how can [...]

Architecting an Information Security Program for the Enterprise – Part 2

Organizations need an Information Security strategy, regardless of their industry or annual revenue. But where do you start? And once you start, how do you ensure that the security strategy [...]

Disaster Strikes – With Surprising Failures

You have a disaster recovery plan and you’re ready for that unexpected event that takes out your primary data center and your ability to conduct business. But are you really [...]