Video conferencing is becoming the norm for companies everywhere in response to the rise in remote work, international meetings, and travel. Team collaboration and check ins require top-notch video conferencing software to accommodate the needs of your company. You’ve been tasked with the important decision, what video conferencing software will work best for your team?

If you’re an IT Admin, we don’t need to tell you how difficult and demanding your job can be on a daily basis. You’re not only installing network gear and keeping it updated, but you’re also managing everything from clients to applications. Not to mention the demands associated with business growth. When the business grows, so does everything else in the network: the type of uses, devices, and applications. All of that falls on you and your team to install, update, and maintain. While managing these groups of clients has always been challenging, now along comes security to keep you up at night.

Earlier this month at Cisco’s annual partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada Internetwork Engineering (IE) was honored with both the Architectural Excellence Partner of the Year Award for Security and Cisco Capital Partner of the Year Award for its innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the South. Chuck Steiner, IE President and CEO accepted the award on behalf of IE for its consultative approach to not only ensuring customers get the most out of their IT budgets, getting the latest technology for less, but also making sure those new technology opportunities don’t create additional security risks for their business.

From RFID asset tracking and data analytics to connected sensors and access control, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to provide businesses with marketable, actionable insights to help them grow. For this reason, Internetwork Engineering (IE) has made significant investments in IoT technology solutions and training to secure Cisco’s IoT Authorization released earlier in 2019.

Technology helps us communicate and collaborate across barriers that once confined us, were costly to bridge or extended the length of processes. The ease and convenience that’s brought by today’s digital technologies have also ushered in a time of unease and vulnerability. Information exchanged and stored digitally holds personal information that can be troublesome on its own if in the wrong hands or be used like a puzzle piece to achieve a hacker’s end goal. Handling this information in today’s data-rich world has its own set of challenges, and for businesses who process these important pieces of information like social security numbers, medical records, and credit card information, there are also compliance regulations adding to the complexity of it all. To help organizations operate more efficiently and securely, we’ve partnered with XMedius for secure file exchange and communications. Their solutions help reduce costs and are simple to use, secure, automated, flexible, and compliant.

School routines are back in full swing, and I couldn’t help but draw similarities between how we protect the young ones we send off to school and the corporate assets and data leaving our companies.