Digitization. It’s a great buzzword. Over the past year it’s reached an all-time high in usage. Every hardware and software manufacturer has written article upon article about it. Many have dedicated entire marketing programs to it. Whoever coined the term should be given a marketing award because it’s a shiny new skin on something that has been around for a very long time. Something we've even encountered seventeen years ago.

(Image via Reddit) It’s the holiday season and that means more people are traveling and spending time in airports, bus/train stations, and generally wondering if the next stop, coffee shop or store has free Wi-Fi. The habitual curiosity is understandable – why use your cell data when you can hook up to a free connection to the web, right? In fact, there’s always a couple of questions I seem to get on this subject when people find out I’m a security professional. They are: What do you think about public Wi-Fi? Is free Wi-Fi safe to use? Is it ok to use the Wi-Fi at the airport?

Ransomware has evolved. It now spreads on its own inside a network, from machine to machine, encrypting files and compromising hosts. With an estimated global cost of cyberattacks sitting at $400 billion per year, and ransomware being expected to remain at the forefront of these attacks, it’s important to know how ransomware works, who it targets, and how to protect your business with a multi-layered defense. Take a look inside ransomware with our partners at Cisco Security:

We all know that the threat landscape isn’t getting any easier to manage. Fact is, most organizations don’t have the resources or the time to carry-out the endless activities that could reduce their exposure. However, there are a few things you can do that will make the most impact. Our partners at Tenable helped us put together these 10 Steps to Effective Vulnerability Management.

The holiday season means holiday shopping and while everyone will be looking for a bargain, it’s important to make sure you don’t get something you weren’t bargaining for. A new study from ADI predicts that this holiday shopping season will be the first to break $100 billion in online sales, with more than half of those sales coming from mobile devices. Here are some online shopping safety tips:

At Cisco’s annual partner conference in Dallas, Texas last week, Internetwork Engineering (IE) was honored with Software Lifecycle Partner of the Year for its innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the South Region. Sean Rollman, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, accepted the award on behalf of the company, and had this to say: