If your business is moving to the cloud — or rethinking an existing cloud strategy — the decision almost always comes down to two providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Both are mature, enterprise-grade platforms, but they differ in ways that can have a real impact on your operating costs, integration story, and long-term flexibility. At Envescent, we help companies cut through the marketing and choose based on actual workloads, not hype.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud provider, experienced a significant outage on Monday, October 20th that disrupted services for millions of users worldwide. This incident highlighted the inherent risks associated with relying heavily on a single cloud provider for critical infrastructure.
Many businesses tend to underestimate their cybersecurity risks, and as a result, make themselves appetizing targets for malicious hackers, malware and other problematic activity. Cybersecurity is a critical part of every business’ operational durability. Without attention to it, an attack can be crippling. We recommend business owners and managers view cybersecurity as an investment, rather than a sunk cost, as it pays in dividends of business continuity and resilience.
Phishing attacks are up over 600% since the beginning of CoVID-19. Many of these attacks target companies and are taking advantage that much of the workforce may still be working remotely, and therefore not have the same level of protection or communication they enjoyed previously.
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating significant disruptions in business operations. Wherever possible, we strongly recommend that businesses put continuity plans in place to facilitate remote work and collaboration for an extended period of time. As a part of these continuity plans we recommend ensuring that remote workers are able to conduct their business securely, and that functionality is tested before going in to production.