Tag: Application

5 Best practices for DDoS Mitigation

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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks remain one of the most effective methods used by cybercriminals to cause significant financial, operational, and reputational damage to businesses worldwide. Though these attacks take different forms, the goal is always to incapacitate targeted servers, services, or networks by flooding them with traffic from compromised devices or networks.

As organizations have hardened their defences, cybercriminals have responded with newer attack types targeting multiple applications and services. Download this guide to learn how to defend against rapidly evolving Distributed Denial-of-Service threats and address vulnerabilities at every layer.

Building a Business Case for Enterprise Search

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The Role of the CIO.

The primary challenge for all employees is being able to find the information they need as a matter of urgency without knowing in which repository or application it is stored. This is where enterprise search becomes business-critical in today’s digital workplace.

The low adoption of enterprise search is largely because the CIO finds it difficult to make a business case. This report written by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd, sets out the core characteristics of enterprise search applications and the way in which a business case can be made.

In making the business case the CIO takes on full responsibility for information quality, and in just three months of focused effort has the opportunity to make an immediate impact on ensuring that the organisation is able to take advantage of the business opportunities that are emerging ahead of the actions being taken by competitors.

Read this Intranet Focus report to learn how to:

  • Understand the Technology of Search
  • Implement Enterprise Search efficiently
  • Define who should own Enterprise Search

Tired of Sitecore Complexity & Cost Constraints?

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Sitecore was a leading platform, widely adopted for web-based scenarios. But Sitecore has not kept up with modern business requirements: agility, ease of use, personalization, digital journeys, and headless content delivery for next-gen apps, kiosks, wearables, and IoT devices. Read our quick guide to understand the considerations and risks of Sitecore and how with Acquia you can:

  • Increase application performance, not your budget
  • Use tools and integrations that deliver at scale
  • Deliver a secure and compliant platform

Take the first step to delivering digital experiences faster.

A layered approach to container and Kubernetes security

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Containers have garnered broad appeal through their ability to package an application and its dependencies into a single image that can be promoted from development, to test, and to pro-duction. Containers make it easy to ensure consistency across environments and across multiple deployment targets like physical servers, virtual machines (VMs), and private or public clouds. With containers, teams can more easily develop and manage the applications that deliver business agility.

Moor Insights Consistent Cloud

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Enterprises may choose from many cloud computing platform options and often find themselves using multiple clouds, both public and private. Use of multiple cloud platforms with a common management plane is a great strategy to deliver the flexibility application teams need. As teams develop and operate applications with varied availability, cost and performance requirements, they benefit from choice in capabilities between public cloud(s) and private cloud(s), i.e. hybrid cloud1 .