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Secure SD-WAN Service With AI Control

August 11, 2020

In today’s challenging digital landscape, you should expect more than high performance and agility from your wide area network solution. A secure SD-WAN service is paramount as optimised security combined with granular control of your entire estate is now more essential than ever. According to the IBM 2018 Data Breach Study, the average time it … Read More

Endpoint Security Explained

June 29, 2020

With the explosion of remote and home workers at 49.2% in the UK (source), the number of endpoint devices accessing data on the corporate network is now greater than ever. Security implications increase exponentially with multiple devices requiring access to sensitive corporate data. According to the IBM 2018 Data Breach Study, the average time a … Read More

Securing Microsoft Office 365 Business

June 11, 2020

With over 180 million monthly active users, many organisations have already embraced Microsoft Office 365 Business to fulfil their cloud-based application needs. Your organisation’s data is critical to its success, which is why fortifying your network’s security is so vital. As with all technology services, particularly cloud-based, Microsoft Office 365 security is an area that requires closer … Read More

Microsoft Office 365 Data Backup And Restore

May 22, 2020

3rd party Microsoft Office 365 data backup and restore services are becoming more and more in demand. Microsoft operates Office 365 under a shared responsibility model; meaning that although they maintain platform availability, preventing actual data loss is the sole responsibility of the user. Over 50% of organisations rely on Office 365; however, 92% of … Read More

Choosing The Right Cloud Platform For Remote Working

May 15, 2020

The recent pandemic of COVID19 has raised several business challenges surrounding remote workers accessing secure cloud computing services. Working from home has swiftly become the ‘new normal’, and many industry experts will be unlikely to change. Choosing the right cloud platform is vital to ensure seamless integration with remote working technologies and your overall network … Read More

COVID-19 Remote Worker Enablement

May 5, 2020

Unfortunately, Covid19 has impacted all of us, whether it’s with contracting the virus, or by the measures taken to slow the infection. Businesses and the public, in general, were not prepared for it, which hit us harder than foreseen. The government has done an outstanding job considering what they had to deal with, but there’s … Read More

The Evolution Of Remote Working

April 27, 2020

Due to the global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies scrambled to fortify their IT infrastructures so that their workforce could work from home. The evolution of remote working is in full swing, although Securus has been remote working since 2012, and helping our customers do the same. Entire teams are now finding themselves working … Read More

12 Key SD-WAN Features To Use Right Now

April 17, 2020

There are a number of key SD-WAN features evolving, each more efficient and secure than the last one. Increased efficiencies make the lives of IT teams easier. However, many of these automated features go untapped. In some instances, the vendor falls short when it comes to educating IT executives as to the full functionality of … Read More

Best Fortinet Firewalls for SD-WAN

March 31, 2020

Cybersecurity has been a long time business concern for enterprise organisations. As branch sites migrate towards an SD-WAN model, standard firewall hardware seems no longer the optimum choice. A number of vendors however; have begun fully integrating both SD-WAN functionality and next-generation firewall security in one box. Fortinet being one of them offers full-SD-WAN features … Read More

What Is Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax?

March 28, 2020

With every new Wi-Fi standard, you see welcome improvements over the previous version in terms of performance. Though, it seems that each one doesn’t quite fully solve the problem of speed. This is mostly because the technology simply can’t keep up with the always-increasing demand. Today we will discuss what is Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and … Read More

COVID-19: Why Increase IT Spending Right Now?

March 26, 2020

Your business might be in crisis mode but the crisis will end. What you do now can make a huge difference in how well your business fares when the recovery comes. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads fear and chaos around the world many businesses have been forced to slow down. Some have even closed their … Read More

What is Network as a Service (NaaS)?

January 29, 2020

NaaS Overview Potential clients have been asking for more information on Network as a Service (NaaS) and what we have on offer. The NaaS model allows your business to offload the day-to-day burden of running the network. You can instead re-focus on your business, whilst safe in the knowledge that your networking infrastructure is in … Read More

What is Hybrid SD-WAN?

November 28, 2019

In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, network managers are under pressure to achieve cost savings in every corner of their network platform. Depending on the provider, pure MPLS can become cost prohibitive, especially if most of the traffic is destined for a cloud based service over the public Internet. The alternative is SD-WAN, however increased latency, … Read More

Understanding VoIP as a Service

October 28, 2019

Many businesses have already migrated to a VoIP as a Service (VaaS) solution due to the cost savings, reliability, simplification and flexibility involved. This article discusses understanding VoIP as a Service in general, it’s benefits, various components and available design choices. This will allow you to make a more informed decision for the future telephony … Read More

8 Benefits of Security As A Service (SECaaS)

October 18, 2019

Many businesses are unknowingly wide open to attack and should consider the benefits of Security as a Service (SECaaS). Investing is a firewall, anti-virus, physical office security, intruder alarm, and CCTV may not be enough. Alas in today’s ever changing digital world this is not enough to keep modern cyber criminals at bay. Malware, ransomware, … Read More

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Guide

September 24, 2019

Most of those working in the technology sector have at least a basic understanding of the Internet of Things (IoT). Recognition for the term Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is growing, although the definition itself is still evolving as digitization becomes a priority in every industry. IIoT is the manufacturing industry reference of The Internet … Read More

Edge and Fog Computing:Overview and Benefits

September 18, 2019

Cloud computing has one main Achilles heel in the form of increased latency. In most cases, the cloud platform is not physically located near the data source, thus data transfer takes additional time. This can become highly problematic for the overall performance of latency-sensitive applications and services. The benefits of edge and fog computing are … Read More

Benefits of SD-WAN for Manufacturing

September 3, 2019

Manufacturing companies have long led the charge on wide-area networking. Every industry must have real-time sharing of information, although manufacturing has a unique need to ensure connectivity across operations as well as locations, suppliers, and partners. Because manufacturing must always push towards efficiency across all its processes, it cannot overlook IT operations and WAN connectivity. … Read More

10 Benefits of SD-WAN for Retail

August 5, 2019

Will Retail Embrace SD-WAN? The many benefits of SD-WAN have allowed this technology to become the darling of the wide area networking arena. SD-WAN for Retail is the obvious move forward. Why wouldn’t businesses want reduced cost and increased performance from their WAN suppliers? At no other time is history has retail needed technology to … Read More

IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS Review

June 4, 2019

Cloud Computing This IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS review will not only discuss the differences between these three main cloud based models, but will also cover the overall benefits of cloud services in general. Cloud computing enables the shift of your business data and compute power to hosted servers and applications located in one or … Read More

Edge Computing Benefits

May 31, 2019

Introduction Unless you have been residing on a remote desert island for the past decade, the rise in popularity of cloud computing cannot have gone unnoticed. Having your data reside in the cloud where data, applications and compute power are all conveniently centralised has multiple benefits such as data sharing, centralised compute and cost efficiency. … Read More

SD-WAN

May 18, 2018

SD-WAN Overview More and more customers are coming to us asking about SD-WAN and seeking our help to both understand it better, and assess if their environment is ready for it. What SD-WAN enables you to do is, in detail, specify policies for paths and priority for certain traffic types, applications etc, and easily roll … Read More