How To Find The Best SD-WAN Service Provider

 SD-WAN offers a lot of benefits to businesses such as lower costs, security, agility, and stronger performance. But, before you could enjoy this, you have to get pass the confusion involved when choosing the right service.

There are several options when it comes to SD-WAN technology. The growing demand from companies have led to several new vendors joining the industry.

Criteria When Choosing SD-WAN Providers

Accessibility

Cloud adoption rose by 15% back in 2018 and reached record highs. It also showed no signs of slowing down. An average company uses a lot of unique cloud services for apps, platforms, and services. Enterprises are embracing managed SD-WAN in order to optimize the performance of several cloud and physical environments.

 

 

The best providers of SD-WAN Wilmington NC do not just assist their clients in the deployment of cloud based tools that can be used for networking. The most suitable vendor will help their clients build better networking and WANs strategies in the cloud and on-premises. Reliable SD-WAN providers will help their clients reach long term organization of components like extensibility and network security.

Total Cost of Ownership

Most SD-WAN solutions offer instant ROI. Businesses might notice immediate resource savings that are based on simpler administration tasks as well as better workload performance. Compared to other options like SD-WAN or WAN solutions are more likely to provide hard and soft cost savings through several factors such as increased agility, fewer data bottlenecks, improved network visibility, as well as lighter IT support workloads.

Evaluate how a specific solution will offer cost savings across these components such as savings on firewalls and other security safeguards, IT time savings on management, updates, configuration, and provisioning, monthly subscription costs, as well as estimated network savings.

Ease Deployment

Although provider processes differ, an in-depth SD-WAN solution will be built according to a comprehensive analysis of your requirements. The SD-WAN service provider must offer a well-defined on-boarding process for customers to design the right sized deployments based on the budget, anticipated WAN usage, workload patterns, premises as well as cloud apps, and services, number of users, and quantity of the remote sites.

Ease of Management

Although a centralized and intuitive administration portal is a feature that defines SD-WAN technologies, you do not have a guarantee that you’ll get ease of management. You may be able to get access to a user friendly graphical user interface, however, the incorrect solution will not make it easier and simpler to optimize the network performance.

Pricing

The pricing structure for SD-WAN services vary between providers. Make sure to find a solution that fits your budget. However, you should also consider the pricing model of the provider and if it makes sense. Leading service providers will most likely cost more than those that offer limited support and features. Find out how providers can meet your set budget and objectives according to potential value provided through engineering expertise, enhanced support, and 24/7 monitoring.

 

Call SpartanTec, Inc. now to learn more about our SD-WAN solutions and other managed IT services.

 

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Why Now Is The Best Time To Prioritize Cybersecurity?

Small businesses is responsible for 44% of the nation’s GDP. Given that, it’s important for small businesses to improve their defenses to make sure that they are protected not only from cyber risks but also from internal and external factors. This is crucial since cybersecurity threats has continued to rise.

Small businesses have consumer and transactional data, which are both exposed to more risks thanks to the new and improved technologies and digital capabilities in the office. Data breaches has made small businesses look like unreliable partners and consumers are forced to find a different provider to work with.

All businesses, whether they’re big or small, are at risk. Breaches happen because these small businesses commit the mistake of assuming that it will not happen to them, they forget about basic preventative measures, and they do everything by themselves, and not investing in a dependablesecurity system.

Common Mistakes Committed By Small Businesses

Wire transfer problems – small businesses always fall victim to fraudulent wire transfers over the years. You can avoid this by checking all payments carefully before sending them. The payee details should also be verified including the account information and the location. One single number that’s incorrect means it’s going to a different receiver.

Ignoring Admin Account Access

Small businesses have a tendency to give access to essential information and services to too many employees through admin accounts. These accounts can easily be hacked and they are the favorite target of many hackers. You can lower your risk by giving access only to a few people.

Smart Phone Vulnerability

Your employees may agree with you or not but it remains a fact that work tablets or phones remain as high risks targets. Making purchase or doing businesses while using public WiFi could place a business or person they work for at risk. These malware threats also hide behind third-party sites since cybercriminals find it easy to convince people into downloading spoof applications.

Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware attacks have risen by almost 350% over the past few years. These attacks commonly appear as mobile notifications or emails, denying access to the computer of the employee. In case you receive an unusual email, don’t open it.

When trying to address these issues, it is important for small businesses to make significant investments in cybersecurity training and set up an in depth cyber policy that can be accessed by all of your employees. By being proactive and prepared, you can prevent these cybersecurity threats well before they happen, protecting small businesses from a possible loss of income, client data, and network security as well as privacy lawsuits.

A cyberattack could negatively affect the reputation and bottom line of a company, and diminish customer trust. The best defense is having good defense, and businesses must be aggressive in looking for IT services that strengthen their security.

Call SpartanTec, Inc. if you need help in boosting your cybersecurity.

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Unsecured Database May Have Exposed Some Big Companies

An UpGuard research team recently discovered several unsecured Amazon S3 buckets belonging to the Israeli IT Services firm Attunity.

The company left the buckets unsecured, exposing more than a terabyte of sensitive information belong to a number of prominent companies including Ford, TD Bank and Netflix.
To provide a sense of scale, Attunity has more than 2,000 clients worldwide, including many on the Fortune 100 list.

Three different Amazon S3 databases were left open.  These were:

• Attunity-it
• Attunity-patch
• Attunity-support

Upon discovery, the UpGuard research team contacted Attunity and by the next day, all three databases had been secured.  At this time, it's not known with complete certainty whether an unauthorized third party was able to download the databases. Early indications say they weren't, but if they did, they're now in possession of a treasure trove of information.

An UpGuard analysis of the three databases revealed that they contained:

• A massive 750GB trove of email backups
• A variety of Microsoft OneDrive account details
• System passwords for a variety of network assets
• Sales, marketing and contact information
• Project specifications
• Other similar data

Qlik is a larger company in the process of buying Attunity, and they released a statement that reads, in part, as follows:

"We are still in the process of conducting a thorough investigation into the issue and have engaged outside security firms to conduct independent security evaluations.  We take this matter seriously and are committed to concluding this investigation as soon as possible.  At this point in the investigation, indications are that the only external access to data was by the security firm that contacted us."

The UpGuard research team added the following:
"The risks to Attunity posed by exposed credentials, information and communications, then are risks to the security of the data they process.  While many of the files are years old, the bucket was still in use at the time detected and reported by UpGuard, with the most recent files having been modified within days of discovery."

Kudos to UpGuard for finding the issue and alerting Attunity, and to Qlik for their timely response.  Here's hoping the early indications hold, and hackers somehow missed the exposed databases.

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Wilmington, NC 28412
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