Classroom technology enhances the learning experience, encourages collaboration, and helps students develop future-ready skills. A school’s infrastructure has to include a reliable data center that's robust enough to handle the data flow and connectivity, however, initiatives like 1:1 and BYOD are not the only way devices are connecting to campus networks.

The world of IT has become more complex over the years. If you've ever wondered what IT god you aggravated for cybersecurity to be thrown into the mix and become ever-increasing in priority and complexity, you aren’t alone. There always seems to be some new exploit tactic popping up, new acronyms to be defined, or redefined, and new products to protect your business against new vulnerabilities. How do they all apply to you and what should you be focusing on? While each organization is different, here are the cybersecurity lessons we’ve learned over the past year.

As we head into the New Year and I pull together the last security blog of 2018, I want to highlight a few of the latest exploits and breaches that showed up on my security news radar during Thanksgiving week and the important questions they pose. Don’t head into 2019 without asking yourself these top cybersecurity questions:

Internetwork Engineering (IE) Awarded with Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year: Enterprise Networking Award for U.S. South at Cisco Partner Summit 2018 Recently at Cisco’s annual partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Internetwork Engineering (IE) received the Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year: Enterprise Networking Award for U.S. South for its innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the Southern region. Chuck Steiner, IE President & CEO, accepted the award on behalf of the company which was recognized for its commitment to intelligent infrastructure that improves customer advantage and success.

As the cyberthreat landscape continues to rapidly evolve and get more complex, it’s become imperative for organizations to build a network architecture that includes automated cybersecurity monitoring systems, workforce education, training, and awareness. This will help to dynamically detect and prevent threats that may or may not have been knowingly introduced internally and provide increased visibility and protection to all outsider threats.

We’ve had the great pleasure of working with the Charlotte and Raleigh FBI Cyber Squad units as a part of our quarterly Security User Groups in the Charlotte and Triangle areas respectively. Whether you’ve had the opportunity to attend one of the user groups where the FBI has been our guest panelist or not, here’s a recap of what cybersecurity trends they’re seeing and other recommendations they have.