Sir Richard Branson once said that he relies on “gut instinct” rather than analyzing “huge amounts of statistics” when making business decisions. It’s hard to argue with his methods —the entrepreneur founded a multinational conglomerate (the Virgin Group) of some 400 companies and has built a net worth of more than $5 billion.
Tags: Technology, SharePoint, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, Remote Workforce, Mobile HR, People Analytics
On January 19, 1999, Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the BlackBerry 850, a wireless, two-way pager that supported mobile email and web browsing. It changed everything about the way we work.
Tags: Technology, SharePoint, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, Remote Workforce, Mobile HR
Technology allows companies to build workforces that cross city, state and even international boundaries. Supporting a remote workforce can be challenging, however. A well-designed human resources (HR) portal can help keep remote and mobile employees engaged, effective, and enthusiastic.
Tags: Technology, SharePoint, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, Remote Workforce
Digital transformation is a phrase that has been tossed around pretty liberally over the past few years, often in ways that seem overly technical. For most organizations, it can be simpler to think of it as using technology to increase efficiency by automating manual processes.
Tags: Technology, SharePoint, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Human Resources, ATS, HRIS, ERP
As organizations upgrade their systems and deploy Windows 10 operating systems into their enterprise domain environments, it is important to also update group policies to manage new features. This article will introduce the topic of creating a Central Store to ensure the Administrative Templates required are available across all domain controllers for a consistent management experience.
Tags: Technology, Azure, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Azure AD, Windows 10
Microsoft continues to address vulnerabilities around user identity and has integrated a solution in Azure AD (currently in public preview) that enhances password policies to protect against common, weak passwords. Organizations can now configure their change/reset process to flow passwords through a sequence in which they are validated against banned passwords lists. If users attempt to use a banned password, they are notified that the password is vulnerable and will need to try a different password.
Tags: Technology, Azure, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Azure AD
In the previous post, we discussed why every organization, regardless of how sophisticated its IT security infrastructure and operations are, needs an incident response plan. The first goal is always to prevent a data breach from happening. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned about data breaches during the past five years, it’s that even the largest retailers, financial institutions, Internet giants and government agencies can be victimized.
Tags: Technology, cybersecurity, Microsoft, Windows Defender ATP
At AdaptivEdge, we believe that security should be a part of every conversation, consultation, and solution we deliver. Our Security and Compliance experts have developed step-by-step instructions on how you can enhance the security of your Office 365 deployment.
Authored by Steve Andrews (Director Cloud Platform Services) & Raul Perez (Senior Microsoft Systems Engineer)
Tags: Adaptive Edge, O365, E5, Enterprise, Office 365, cybersecurity, Microsoft, security, Secure Score
Many organizations have taken a more proactive approach to IT security rather than waiting for something bad to happen. Recognizing the immense cost of a data breach (an average of $3.86 million) and the time it takes to contain a breach (an average of 69 days) these organizations follow best practices and deploy security tools that reduce risk related to malware, zero-day exploits and other threats.
But that’s not enough.
Tags: Technology, cybersecurity, Microsoft
There isn’t much an organization can do to reduce the number of security threats it faces on a daily basis. Hackers will be hackers. They constantly develop new techniques and tools that allow them to carry out as many attacks as possible. However, organizations can make the job of a hacker more difficult by reducing the attack surface.
Tags: cybersecurity, Microsoft, Secure Score, Attack Surface, Windows Defender ATP
