The top 10 technology articles of 2020

The top 10 technology articles of 2020

Here are our readers' favorite stories from the past year.

 As we say goodbye to 2020, we revisit this year's most popular stories.

 Our top 10 reads cover the year's most compelling and timely topics: the workplace of the future, how COVID-19 is accelerating digital transformation, super computing's far-reaching impact on our lives, and more.

 No 1 The fundamentals of security incident response—during a pandemic and beyond

 Read about the ongoing battle between business and cybercriminals in this year's most-read story.

 No 2 How COVID-19 is accelerating the move to hybrid cloud,

 Businesses are putting digital transformation into high gear. Experts share priority elements of the process.

 No 3 Six ways the world's fastest computers have changed your life,

  like your car? Love the movies? Happy with your doctor and your bank? You've got a supercomputer to thank.

 No 4 Zero trust makes business secure by default

 As enterprises turn to hybrid IT, they're finding that conventional identity and access management doesn't keep up.

 No 5 IT security at home: Hard but not impossible

 You probably can't provide security for workers at home that matches that of your office, but you can come close. Here are some ideas

 No 6 The Doppler Report: Accelerating the future

 In this report, we explore all that's needed to make your digital transformation successful—from strategies for your workforce to how to ensure your tech is secure.

 No 7 8 steps to achieving the 'cloud everywhere' vision

 If you were to imagine the perfect book to describe IT organizations right now, it might be entitled A Tale of Two Clouds. Here are eight steps companies can follow to tackle immediate challenges and jump on the path to building cloud-everywhere environments.

 No.8 Q&A with Argonne Lab's Rick Stevens

 Supercomputers are about to become a whole "lot" more powerful, enabling researchers to tackle some of the world's biggest problems. Argonne National Laboratory's Rick Stevens talks about 'the biggest, baddest' computer in the world.

 No 9 Password policy recommendations: Here's what you need to know

 Complexity, uniqueness, and periodic change have long been the top best practices for passwords, but new recommendations have led to changes around password policies.

 No 10 What's new in the Linux kernel?

 After all these years, the core developers of Linux keep innovating. New versions will be faster and more stable.

 

 The Enterprise.NBT team has decades of experience in the IT industry covering a diverse set of topics including app development, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data and analytics, data center architecture, edge computing, energy efficiency, Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile, networking, privacy, security, virtualization, and emerging technologies.

 Cybercriminals are going after healthcare companies during COVID-19 for a couple of reasons. One is desperation. Medical and pharmaceutical organizations would often rather pay hefty ransoms than suffer disruptions during this crisis. The other reason: Many healthcare organizations don’t enforce the bare-minimum security hygiene and protection work to keep even simple attacks at bay.

 Many experts blame years of deferred cybersecurity investment. Like stubborn patients who refuse preventive health measures, healthcare organizations have failed to universally employ security basics like two-factor authentication, email scanning and filtering, malware protection, protocol hardening, and network segmentation

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Senbagarai - Feb 6, 2022, 8:05 AM - Add Reply

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