Tag: data security

February 14, 2024

A consultant colleague recently reached out with some questions on how to craft a good organizational information security policy. I’ve got experience with this, as a graduate-level legal instructor, a lawyer, and someone who frequently talks to communications technology practitioners. […]

July 16, 2020

As far as call center work is considered, stability plays a very important role. If you partner with several call center outsourcing vendors, you would compromise the integrity of the whole process as every vendor will operate differently. On the […]

March 26, 2020

As homes around the world increasingly become offices and classrooms as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the news has been awash with headlines detailing the impact of such a shift on our networks. Network traffic is increasing, resulting in […]

March 10, 2020

MetTel on Tuesday took the wraps off of its SD-M service, which was designed to bring some of the benefits of SD-WAN to mobile workforces. SD-M provides actionable insight and control of factors impacting performance, costs and security of mobility […]

February 5, 2020

In part one of this series, we explored networking slicing and virtualization, as well as their importance to 5G. Part one examined the challenges and requirements for networking management in this new world of 5G and what capabilities such infrastructure […]

January 22, 2020

Score another government win for CenturyLink. Coming on the heels of last week’s $1.6 billion contract with the U.S. Department of Interior, the telco announced it has won a task order to provide secure connectivity to the U.S. Department of […]

November 22, 2019

Verizon Business is throwing a shield around its private IP networks by embedding its software-defined perimeter (SSD) technology to create a zero trust architecture. Verizon’s zero trust technology blocks connectivity to servers and applications from unknown devices, which makes corporate […]

November 13, 2019

For today’s technology managers, enterprise mobility is an evolving standard and a moving target so to speak. Managing devices and maximizing savings simply doesn’t cut it anymore – excellence is measured by new metrics like internal user satisfaction, business enablement […]

September 19, 2019

Huawei has been temporarily suspended from membership in the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST.) FIRST suspended Huawei based on legal advice following changes last month to U.S. export rules, according to an exclusive story by The Wall […]

January 2, 2019

Windstream has sold off its legacy EarthLink consumer internet business for $330 million in cash to private equity firm Trive Capital. The deal, which was announced Monday, provides a cash infusion for Little Rock, Arkansas-based Windstream after it agreed in […]

November 26, 2018

While there has been some progress in regards to standardizing virtual network functions (VNFs), they are still not living up to their full potential, according to AT&T’s Roman Pacewicz. Pacewicz, AT&T’s chief product officer, spoke to FierceTelecom on the sidelines […]

September 21, 2018

Telefónica is retooling its startup accelerator program with more of a focus on companies that have mature business models that dovetail with the telco’s own roadmap. Telefónica launched its Wayra startup accelerator program back in 2011, but in today’s announcement […]

September 18, 2018

Windstream Enterprise is laying claim to being the first service provider in the nation to garner a compliance designation for its SD-WAN service. Windstream announced today it that’s SD-WAN service has met the standard for the Payment Card Industry Data […]

August 23, 2018

The networking world is changing rapidly as new technologies and techniques proliferate, according to the 2018 State of Network Management Report from network analytics vendor Kentik. Much is new and organizations are struggling to figure it all out. “As more […]

July 12, 2018

While the recent abuse of personal data by Facebook has eroded public trust in social media platforms, mobile operators are still in good standing, according to a study that was released today. The study by Openet found that 53% of […]