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News Article
News Article

Forbes: Common Online Scams and How To Avoid Them

From fake holiday home rentals to counterfeit medications, online scams are now an unfortunate common occurrence. Forbes contributor, John Wilson takes a detailed look at online scams and provides 5 ways to protect yourself from them. Originally published on Forbes Advisor . Excerpt: “Mary was lonely. The recently divorced mom of three was ready to dip her toe back into the Orlando, Florida...
News Article
News Article

Keeping Personal Data Secure

With the rise in phishing attacks and identify theft, Ciaran Rafferty, Managing Director, Email Security at Fortra looks at emerging trends and ways organizations can keep their sensitive data secure. He also provides an update on what to expect from Fortra in 2022.
Datasheet
Datasheet

Fortra's Security & Automation Portfolios

Today’s IT environment is filled with the challenges of securing infrastructure despite lean resources and a mounting list of projects. Fortra strives to be your trusted partner as you simplify your strategy, consolidate your technology stack, and harden security across all aspects of your environment. Fortra offers a comprehensive approach to security and automation that reduces the costly...
Automation
Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Datasheet
Datasheet

Fortra Cybersecurity

Chances are, your team is struggling to keep up with the ever-growing workload, increasing security threats, and shifting priorities that have become hallmarks of today’s IT environment. Instead of proactively building your security posture, you’re forced to be reactive, always fighting the biggest fire first. You need a better way. It’s time to protect your organization with proactive, automated...
Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Scale of IT capacity planning tools that balance cost and risk
Article
Article

Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk

By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
How do you calculate IT health and risk ? There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs. The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are: Threshold comparison Enhanced threshold comparison Event detection Variation from normal Allocation comparison Queuing theory for health On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT infrastructure risk are...
Automation
Datasheet
Datasheet

Intermapper Flows

Intermapper Flows is a tightly integrated component of Intermapper’s network monitoring, mapping, and alerting suite of tools.
Monitoring
Blog
Blog

How to Get Started with NIST 800-171 Compliance

By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 09/22/2017
Are you ready to report your NIST 800-171 compliance status by the end of the year? If you do business with the federal government, you need to comply with SP NIST 800-171 by the end of the year. Now is the time to implement your compliance plan.
Automation
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Compliance
Monitoring
system performance management
Blog
Blog

Performance Management

By Per Bauer on Sat, 07/22/2017
What is Performance Management? IT performance management is responsible for everyday aspects of capacity management , like monitoring performance and resources, planning changes to make efficient use of resources, analyzing performance, and reporting back to the business. Now more than ever, your company’s bottom line rests on your ability to provide 24/7 service online. Even short outages can...
Automation
Capacity Planning for IT Managers
Blog
Blog

IT Maturity

By Per Bauer on Fri, 06/16/2017
What are your optimization goals? An optimization initiative is typically triggered by one of the drivers listed below and the focus is dictated by your overall business objectives. But singlehandedly focusing on one objective may negatively impact your capabilities in the other areas. This can reduce the overall service quality and offer limited to no real value. In order to achieve concurrent...
Automation
How to go from simple to strategic capacity management
Blog
Blog

How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management

By Per Bauer on Fri, 03/17/2017
Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice to follow today. A Brief History of Capacity...
Automation