Author Archives: Lucian Systems

How to use zero trust and IAM to defend against cyberattacks in an economic downturn

Despite double-digit budget increases, CISOs and their teams are scrambling to contain increased internal breaches, embezzlement and fraud. Identities are the attack vector of choice during a recession, exacerbated by inflationary costs driving up the cost of living, making phishing emails’ false claims of easy money all the more alluring. As one CISO confided to […]

Tips for Conducting Migrations after Support for Microsoft Office 2013 Ends

As of April 11, 2023, Microsoft will stop supporting Office 2013. The decision to end support for Office 2013 should come as no surprise. Over the past several years, Microsoft has been slowly ending support for its one-time purchase products to encourage adoption of subscription-based alternatives. With all that’s changing, IT teams have a lot […]

New: AWS Telco Network Builder – Deploy and Manage Telco Networks

Over the course of more than one hundred years, the telecom industry has become standardized and regulated, and has developed methods, technologies, and an entire vocabulary (chock full of interesting acronyms) along the way. As an industry, they need to honor this tremendous legacy while also taking advantage of new technology, all in the name […]

Who Has Time for Higher Education

A big challenge for professionals of all ages is time. Balancing the responsibilities of work and life leave little time for self-improvement in the form of education. But ongoing education is more than just self-improvement. It’s also necessary. Technology continues to evolve and companies struggle to keep pace. They are in constant need of people […]

AWS Week in Review – February 20, 2023

Since the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, Amazon has activated disaster relief services to quickly provide relief items to impacted areas. The company and Amazon customers have donated nearly 100,000 relief items so far, and donations continue to come in. The AWS Disaster Preparedness and Response team is providing trained technical volunteers and solutions […]

Benchmarking your cybersecurity budget in 2023

Knowing which areas to focus on in a cybersecurity budget to drive the most significant business value is a must-have skill for CISOs. Deloitte recently found that cybersecurity is core to cloud-based digital transformation, accounting for nearly 50% of the initiatives’ success. As they look at benchmarking and budgeting as the first step in driving revenue gains and advancing […]