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How to Secure Endpoints in a BYOD Environment
Why BYOD Security Matters In today’s fast-moving business world, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies are no longer just a trend—they’re the norm. Allowing employees to use personal laptops, smartphones, and tablets for work can boost productivity, improve responsiveness, and [...]
Understanding the Security Benefits of SD-WAN
Why SD-WAN Matters More Than Ever In today’s rapidly evolving digital environment, enterprises require network infrastructures that can keep up with the pace of change. Traditional WAN architectures—while dependable in the past—are increasingly challenged by the demands of cloud applications, [...]
What is XDR and How It Improves Threat Detection
Understanding the Evolution of Cybersecurity As digital threats constantly evolve, so too must our approach to cybersecurity. At the beginning, the field was dominated by traditional antivirus programs designed to combat viruses and malware by matching digital signatures. Over time, [...]
Automating Threat Intelligence Collection
A Key to Modern Cyber Defense In today’s hyperconnected world, cyber threats evolve faster than ever. Organizations can no longer rely solely on manual monitoring or reactive responses to stay secure. Automating threat intelligence collection has emerged as a critical [...]
How Ransomware-as-a-Service Is Changing the Game
Understanding The Ransomware Threat Landscape Ransomware-as-a-Service insights reveal a paradigm shift in the cyber threat environment. As a proactive IT management and network services provider, it is our responsibility to ensure that businesses comprehend the growing complexities of cyber threats, [...]
The Role of Threat Modeling in Secure Development
In today’s interconnected world, building secure software requires more than simply patching vulnerabilities after they’re discovered. The most effective defense starts early—before a single line of code is deployed—through threat modeling. Threat modeling is the structured process of identifying, assessing, [...]
You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.
Smoke testing is a type of software testing performed by Alvaka after a software patching sequence to ensure that the system is working correctly and to identify any misconfigurations or conflicts within the patched system.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.
You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
