Smart Cities have revolutionized communities and with their inception comes the demand for seamless Internet of Things (IoT) integrations. You need to choose IoT solutions that address commonly faced issues within your community.

With just a few days left before the official kick-off of the 2019 holiday shopping season, it’s easy to get swept up into the magic and excitement that it brings. Especially if that means your business is expecting to see an influx of profit from holiday shoppers. Many retailers use Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday as drivers for business as they offer special promotional deals to shoppers. The Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2018 pulled in record numbers with $6.22 billion in online Black Friday sales, nearly $18 billion from Small Business Saturday sales, and 7.9 billion on Cyber Monday. Yet the responsibility of keeping shopper data safe and protected is a burden felt in the days and months leading up to the season that many don’t look forward to. How can they when retailers also saw a record number of online retail data breaches in 2018? Unfortunately, cybersecurity isn’t one of those areas where merchants can afford to avoid responsibility.

Earlier this month at Cisco’s annual partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada Internetwork Engineering (IE) was honored with both the Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year Award for Security and Cisco Capital Partner of the Year Award for its innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the South. Chuck Steiner, IE President and CEO accepted the award on behalf of IE for its consultative approach to not only ensuring customers get the most out of their IT budgets, getting the latest technology for less, but also making sure those new technology opportunities don’t create additional security risks for their business.

The transition of applications to software as a service (SaaS) delivery models has benefitted organizations with distributed and mobile workforces while reducing infrastructure and simplifying management. Despite these benefits, some organizations have struggled to realize value from their SaaS investments in a time-effective manner. So, what’s the secret to better adoption? It’s simple: Adoption Services.

Another October is coming to a close, and that means it’s time to wrap up another National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s focus is all about the importance of personal cybersecurity ownership and the proactive steps you can take at home and at work to enhance cybersecurity.

Because most state and local government agencies don’t have millions to spend on cybersecurity, they can be looked at as easy prey for cybercriminals. In this blog, we will discuss one of the top threats facing agencies like yours, what you should consider when creating your cybersecurity strategy, and how a partner like Internetwork Engineering (IE) can help.