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Deploy Your Servers with Krypt!

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If you haven’t heard of Krypt, it is the division of VPLS Inc. which is responsible for dedicated servers and hosting, and currently provides hosting services to more than five million websites around the globe. Founded in 1998 as a shell and web host provider in Newport Beach, CA, the company has since mushroomed into a full-service hosting provider, and has become the pre-eminent leader in that field for all of Southern California, and for many other areas as well.

The infrastructure offered by Krypt includes 500 Gbps of network capacity, and this is growing all the time in response to increased demand from our loyal customers. The entire network backbone was built by Krypt specialists, and this network currently manages more than 20,000 switch ports flawlessly. Our offices in California and Thailand keep us close to our customers, and allow us to react quickly to any concerns or issues which may develop.

The highly qualified software engineers on our team are the proud owners of 78 Cisco certifications, 59 Brocade certifications, 127 VMware certifications, 20 Veeam certifications, 10 Nimble Storage certifications, and 5 Palo Alto Network certifications. What does all this mean to you as a potential client? It means that you can have unlimited trust and confidence in the team of specialists who work at Krypt and provide superior professional service to all our clients. With all this expertise at our disposal, there is literally nothing we can’t handle in terms of hosting and providing fantastic service to each and every customer.

Our Fast Deploy Plans

The Fast Deploy service offered by Krypt consists of a package of pre-configured bare metal servers which can be released literally within just a few minutes, so as to satisfy any needs our clients may have for rapid deployment. These Fast Deploy packages feature a number of different operating systems, including memory capabilities between 8 Gb RAM on up to 16 Gb RAM. Storage capabilities vary between 1.0 TB SATA and 2.0 TB SATA, and bandwidth can be selected from either 5 TB or 10 TB. All of these packages are priced very moderately, which means virtually every company will be able to afford this ultra-fast service.

Also included in the Fast Deploy package, our clients will have access to 5 usable IP addresses, a 100 Mbps network card, and 24×7 support from our team of network specialists. That means you’ll never have to solve any issue on your own, regardless of when or where it happens, and regardless of the severity of the issue. When you partner with Krypt, you can expect to have a reliable support team at your full disposal, ready and waiting to work through any kind of problems which may occur.

For customers who have unusual requirements, customized packages can be developed which include custom dedicated servers, additional memory, hard drives, and greater bandwidth to solve whatever your needs may be in the way of custom requirements. In other words, no matter what your specific needs are, we can devise a Fast Deploy package which will handle it completely, so you can forget about network operations, and focus on the business aspect of your company. Let Krypt manage the network and computing, so you can work on growing your business by contacting us today!

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Personal Backup: When is Enough, Enough?

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Backing up your data on a regular basis is one of the most crucial practices for technology users; this ensures that your important data will never be completely gone, hence you have saved it in another form or at another place for safekeeping. On a large scale, enterprises are prime examples of how to properly back up data as they have various sources of backup strategically and conveniently spread out. Their backup sources include an on-premise option, backup stored at a data center, as well as backup stored using cloud services.

But what about when it comes to backing up personal data? Does one naturally take the same precautions as they would for their professional data? Do you go to the same great lengths to ensure that you have access to your irreplaceable pictures, important documents, and even forms of identification in the case of an emergency? If you have answered “no” to these questions, then it’s time to discuss why we need to view and prioritize backing up our personal data with the same importance as our professional data. So, without further ado, let’s delve right into why backing up your personal data should be a natural part of your tech life routine.

Why You Should Backup Your Data

First things first; let’s identify why backing up personal data is important to us. In this fast-paced world where it’s easy to choose convenience over logic, we tend to only rely on one source or place to store all our personal files. Whether that place be our phone, laptop, or desktop, the mere thought of disaster striking or the idea of losing our sole source seems too far-fetched to even cross our minds at all. That is, until it actually happens to you and in an instant, you lose all your personal files such as your important school assignments, pictures, and signed contracts, with no way of retrieving of any of it back. It is at that moment, you realize that you should have spent the extra time and effort in saving your items onto at least one more place that could have prevented your upcoming hardships in trying to recover from your data loss. Don’t do this yourself!

What to Do

Now that we clearly see why it is important to have backup for your personal data, let’s talk about why it’s always good practice to have more than one backup to keep yourselves well-prepared should the unpredictable happen. A great place to start is to have at least three backups of your personal data in different forms – your hard drive such as the one on your computer or your laptop as it does not require internet to access your files; a USB device being that it is small and portable making it convenient for you to carry it around with you in addition to it not requiring internet to use either; and finally, a cloud service like VPLS’ cloud services that you can access using any device with internet that makes saving changes to your files quick, easy, and efficient; whenever you make a change to your file on the cloud server, the change would automatically update the file everywhere else the server is connected to.

Finally, we are now ready to address the question on everyone’s mind: How much backup is enough backup for your personal data? And the answer to that question is simply that, there is no such thing as “enough” backup for your personal data; in other words, the limit does not exist. It all really depends on how you feel about your data; if your files are important to you, then you would do everything in your power to ensure that you will always have a way to access your saved data and files regardless of what may happen. But if you really could not care less about your photos, school papers, electronically signed contracts, ID forms and so forth, then go ahead and continue to only save them onto just your trusty laptop and hope for the best, since clearly, you are not equipped to handle the worst…Don’t set yourself up for failure; Backup your personal data today!

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How to Disaster-proof Your Data with Krypt’s Auto Backup

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You can’t afford to have vulnerability with your business-critical data these days, because it can mean that your business may be down for some costly period, or in extreme cases, it might mean that you are obliged to go out of business altogether. There are so many cyber threats which can jeopardize your important data that you really must have a backup of it all, at any given moment in time.

If your data were to be hijacked by a cyber criminal and ransomed, you would literally be at the mercy of that individual, unless you have a current backup of all your data. Any natural disaster might also corrupt or destroy your business data, leaving you with nothing to conduct business with. The only safe way to protect yourself from these scenarios and many others, is to have offsite auto backups being performed on a regular basis, ideally auto backups with Krypt.

Why Krypt?

The big advantage to using Krypt technology is its superior capability for hosting and its outstanding infrastructure. Krypt is the division of VPLS Inc. which is responsible for hosting more than five million websites globally, and for providing enterprise-class technology which many Fortune 500 companies rely on for 24×7 support and service. If these highly successful companies place their trust and their faith in Krypt technology, it should be suitable for all companies, no matter how big or how small.

Krypt has also been around since 1998, which means it has been a major player internationally for more than two decades. That has given the company executives plenty of time to figure out how to provide the very best service and technology to clients, and plenty of successes which can encourage companies everywhere to have total confidence in the Krypt process.

Krypt technology

Your data will be kept safe and secure by Krypt whether you prefer to run Cloud Servers or Bare Metal Servers, both of which will be perfect for your auto backups. Your cloud server backups will be fully managed by Krypt, and will include all the services which will help to preserve your data, and keep it available for you, so that you’ll never have to endure any period of downtime which could be costly for your business.

You will have automatic and unattended backups of your data, you can backup individual files of special importance, backups can be regularly scheduled, you’ll have the capability of onsite recovery, offsite recovery, and server recovery, you’ll have the option of creating incremental backups, and you’ll be able to replicate your entire server from a backup.

Reliability and consistency

Apart from the superior technology provided to your business with the ultra-fast and ultra-capable Krypt servers, there’s another big advantage to having your auto backups arranged for with Krypt technology. Because these servers have proven to be extremely reliable, you can count on having virtually 100% of uptime, with only a minimal chance of any kind of downtime.

That kind of reliability is priceless for business owners, because it means you can set it up and literally forget about it – until you actually need that backup data. Confidence counts for a great deal in business, because it allows you to focus on other things, like running your business effectively. Let Krypt technology manage your auto backups, so you don’t have to worry about data accessibility, even if disaster should strike.

To learn more about auto backups and other Krypt solutions, visit https://www.krypt.com/en/solutions!

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5 Things You Need to Know about Windows 7 End-of-Life

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Just like everything else in this world, all good matters must come to an end. The once ahead-of-its-time Windows 7 is no exception to the rule. The official end-of-life for Windows 7 is on January 14, 2020. The date is fast approaching, leaving users wondering what action they need to take afterwards. Fortunately, the experts at VPLS can provide the answers to guide you in the right direction to ease your concerns and address all the questions you may have about the aftermath. So without further ado, let’s dive straight into the 5 Things You Need to Know about Windows 7 End-of-Life presented by VPLS:

1. What exactly happens after January 14th, 2020? What does “End-of-Life” even mean?
After January 14th, better known as the official date of “End-of-Life”, Windows 7 users will not receive the automatic updates from Microsoft sites unless they are willing to pay for the extended support. The term “End-of-Life” applies to the idea that there will no longer be any technical support available to assist users with any Windows 7 related matters. A great example of this is Windows XP. You are still able to install it, but the state in which you install it will be the best that it can be; it literally does not get any better–not in a good way.

2. Will Windows 7 still work after End-of-Life?
Users will still be able to install Windows 7, however, they are going to be vulnerable to security threats as there will not be any more updates to upgrade your system against new and advanced cyber threats. It goes without saying that security is the most important aspect of a system!

Fun fact: A couple of years ago, you were able to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 free of charge, but since then, this offer is no longer available. In order to upgrade now, you must purchase it. On the flip side, an offer that is currently ongoing is if you are using Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 Pro and you purchase Office 365 business, Microsoft will provide you with a free license to be upgraded with Windows 10. VPLS offers Office 365 Business and serves as a great way to modernize your system.

3. Should I still use Windows 7?
Just because you can use Windows 7 after expiration, does not mean that you should. It is not advisable to keep on using the software due to the very fact of its vulnerability to cyberattacks, particularly to one called Zero-day, a computer-software vulnerability that is unknown to, or unaddressed by the software maker or antivirus vendors. Although your business might not be aware of the software vulnerability, it might already be known by attackers who are secretly exploiting it.

Pro-tip: It’s good to understand that your defense is in layers – your Operating System (OS) layer is one of your layers of your defensive strategy – it’s just as important as your firewall layer and your network layer. It is unacceptable if your OS layer is not functioning properly.

4. What would be the next steps for anyone to get past their Windows 7?
Go straight to Windows 10. Windows 10 was developed with the consumer’s best interest in mind, being that it is simple to use without needing their technical support. Heed our caution about Windows 8: steer clear from Windows 8! Windows 8 is the antithesis of Windows 10 and was created to be extremely complicated so that users may be super dependent on Microsoft technical support.

5. How does one go about obtaining Windows 10? How can VPLS help?
VPLS provides Windows 10. Additionally, VPLS can help you run a test on your workstation to assess and overcome any incompatibility you may have. A good rule of thumb is that if your workstation is around 7-10 years old, it’s time to replace it. You don’t want to be running computers older than 7 – 10 years old because you are risking them dying on you at any minute, causing data loss.

If you are still on the fence regarding this matter, here are more reasons why you should let go of Windows 7:

Software is going to advance with or without you– people want to use different platforms. Windows 7 would not be able to support the new software because companies will not develop for Windows 7
Hardware will advance without you – you will be left behind – affecting your printers/scanners/cameras/phone.

Ransomware attacks a business every 14 seconds costing companies more than 8 billion dollars yearly!
Vulnerabilities can and will lead you to a plethora of problems that can be costly and long-term.
If you are still planning on keeping and using Windows 7 post “End-of-Life” even after reading these reasons, it’s time to ask yourself these key questions to re-evaluate your thought process: How important is your data? Is your data not important enough where you want to keep it vulnerable?

Finally, if you need one more push to get rid of your Windows 7 after January 2020, consider this: Without defense, criminals can constantly hit your organization with bad emails and phishing links. All it takes is one person in your company on Windows 7 to click on a wrong email or link and it can shut down your entire business…Do yourself a favor; don’t risk it.

To learn more about our Office 365 Services, contact VPLS today!

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The Host with the Most: Krypt’s WordPress Hosting Services

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There is no content management system (CMS) that is more popular world-wide than WordPress (WP), which means that there are countless websites powered by WordPress. At Krypt, we recognized that fact several years ago, and geared our hosting service toward providing the best hosting for WordPress websites, so as to accommodate a large number of site owners.

We therefore have a big commitment to WordPress, and to all our clients who have their websites configured via the WP software. When you’re looking for a host provider for your WordPress website, we hope you’ll think of Krypt first, and here’s why…

Why Choose Krypt?

Sure, there are other providers whom you might choose to host your WordPress site, and there are more than a few of them who might be able to provide decent value for what they charge – but we feel that Krypt is your very best choice, for several reasons.

Security: We offer the best security of any host provider, delivering top-notch security at an enterprise level. Our Veeam and Zerto cybersecurity services are second to none, and help us to safeguard all your sensitive company data, better than anyone else.

Performance: If performance is what appeals to you most, you’ll love our blazing-fast solid state drives (SSD’s), which will accomplish data retrieval and page loading, faster than practically any other hardware in the business. Time is everything, and when your business doesn’t have to waste time on load speeds or data retrieval, you can operate as quickly as you can think about an idea, and your customers will be thrilled with the rapid response times whenever they’re trying to access information from you.

Support: When you need us, we will be there. We offer several different avenues by which we can be reached – you can make use of our advanced ticketing system, email, live chat, or phone call. Regardless of which method you use to contact us, you can rest assured that you’ll get a fast response, and we always do our best to solve your issue in the shortest time frame possible.

More Reasons to Love Krypt

Even if you can get an acceptable level of service for security, performance, and support, you might not find another provider who can deliver all the same services and perks which Krypt is able to provide. We also offer all of the following services which you can take advantage of:

Cloning – whenever you need an instance cloned for development, we can handle that for you
Backups – we provide extensive backup services, so you’ll always have a current copy of your important data
SSL certificate – a free SSL certificate is available for your site, so your transactions can be secure, and your search ranking can improve
Patching service – we can automatically apply all the latest patches and plug-ins for you, if you so desire
Analytics – we make Google Analytics available to you, so you can monitor users’ behaviors on your webpage
Select PHP versions – all our clients have the option of choosing their preferred PHP version on a WordPress site
Easy migration – your entire website can be migrated easily on to Krypt servers, making startup a breeze
Access to FTP – clients can use file transfer protocol for easy uploading and downloading of data.

To learn more about how Krypt can help your business as a host provider for your WP website, visit us at https://www.krypt.com/en/cloud/wordpress or contact us directly at https://www.krypt.com/en/contact .

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Tidying Up (Your Server) with Taka Masuda

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Recently, Netflix released an on-trend, reality television series called Tidying Up with Marie Kondo with a premise built on how Organizing Consultant, Marie Kondo, helps American families declutter and reorganize their household. Each episode follows Kondo as she addresses and resolves each family’s unique organizational needs using hands-on methods to tidy up their space as well as provide tips to help maintain it. Our office decided to create our own version…

\For those who are not familiar with the Netflix series, Kondo has developed her own organizing technique, known as the KonMari, in which she diligently performs whenever she tidies up. The steps are as follows: She first separates items into different categories – clothing, books, paper, Komono (kitchen, bathroom, garage and miscellaneous), and sentimental items. Then, she goes through each item individually and evaluates them by bringing the item close to her and asking herself how she feels about it–whether the item “sparks joy” for her or not, as she would only keep those that “sparks joy”.

Inspired by the hit Netflix series, VPLS has put together a vlog of our own to help your business tidy up your server room. In our version of Tidying Up, instead of decluttering homes, we are decluttering servers. Additionally, as opposed to Marie Kondo being your knowledgeable guide, we have VPLS’ own Vice President of Network Engineering, Taka Masuda, walking you through his organizing process, cleverly named as the MasTaka technique, to help “spark joy” in your server room. Taka has been an engineer for VPLS for almost 13 years and has perfected his art of keeping servers organized. In our vlog, Tidying Up with Taka Masuda, watch how Taka tidies up the server room in order to have your business ready to switch over to the cloud.

To learn more about how VPLS’s professional services can help keep your business organized, contact us today!

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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

It is a common, but deadly mistake, to use the term Backup (B/U) interchangeably with Disaster Recovery (DR). This misunderstanding could cause any number of data security and data recovery issues that could potentially destroy a company or at least its IT guy. There is an additional concept in the same vein known as Business Continuity (BC) – let’s do a gut check. To start with, a business continuity assessment is a high-level assessment of a company’s IT enterprise and systematically identifying and then eliminating single points of failure (SPOF) – such as a single core-network switch, standalone server, or a single connection to the internet.

When designing a high-availability IT environment, each component in the compute, network and storage areas are designed and implemented with layers of redundancy. The more critical your IT systems (I don’t know of any organizations that haven’t become totally dependent on their IT stuff) the more business continuity needs to be addressed. Backups and disaster recovery plans are subsets of a business continuity plan.

Many people believe that just a backup alone is sufficient to prevent the loss of data in the event of a disaster, however backup is merely one aspect of a business continuity plan. In order to ensure that a backup can be “stood up,” there also needs to be a disaster recovery plan which identifies and provisions the actual hardware and software to run the backup and bring the company’s IT systems back into operation.

What is Backup?

Backup is the process of making copies of files to have a historical record of data as it existed at a certain point in time. The specifications of backups call for the definition of the following:

Retention – the length of time data must be retained
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – designates the amount of “real time” that can pass before the disruption begins to impact business operations
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – the variable amount of data that will be lost or will have to be re-entered during an outage

Making backups of files these days is very simple, if the IT is virtualized – it is literally as easy as taking snapshots of files. It is one of the major advantages of virtualization- but that’s a separate discussion. Just because it’s easy to make a backup doesn’t mean recovering data from those backups is easy. “Standing up” a backup requires the ability to restore the backup (snapshot) on a computing platform (hardware and software) capable of duplicating the operational parameters of the existing computing platform with the existing IT infrastructure. It doesn’t sound simple? It’s not – backing up is easy – restoring isn’t. That’s where verification testing comes in. Verify your backups.

But what happens when the whole existing IT infrastructure is gone? That’s a disaster.

What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a set of procedures, hardware (computers, network, storage) and software (OS and applications) that allow a company to restore operations in the case of such a disaster.

Darryl Vidal, VPLS’s Director of Operations, stresses the importance that VPLS places in having both backup and disaster recovery. “You have to do both; if you have a backup but no disaster recovery plan, your backup could be sitting in a cloud with no resources to make it operational.” VPLS offers a variety of services to ensure that our customers’ data is secure if a failure, hack, virus. or natural disaster occurs.

Disaster Recovery must be considered in the context of. “what will we do if the data center office burns down?” Any and all types of backups can be rendered useless in the case of some disaster that takes out the whole building. For instance, if the building housing your data center were destroyed, what would be required to bring “critical” systems back online? Finance, manufacturing, email, and database systems would need to be back online first. Is there a complete backup of data, applications, operating systems, that could be brought into production on some standard hardware? Are the backup recovery procedures documented? If not, that really means that in a disaster, your company couldn’t come back up in weeks or even months.

To be clear, backups and disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity planning. BC seeks to identify all likely single-points of failure (SPOF), and implement equipment, processes and procedures to address each one – including backups and DR provisioning.

To begin the business continuity assessment process, take a systematic top-down approach, and review each potential point-of-failure. Then address each according to its level of criticality. Obviously, this means an assessment of criticality comes first. Start with a BC and DR plan. Then create the backup and recovery plan.

The best news is that today, these can be purchases from a Managed Services Provider (MSP) like VPLS. Backup as a Service (BaaS) is the service to have VPLS run your backups on our enterprise infrastructure. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) adds the extra layer of actual hardware and software infrastructure to “stand up” your backup images in our Data Center infrastructure in the case of an attack, outage, or natural disaster.

Add to that the benefit of procuring BaaS or DRaaS without any capital outlay – a true opportunity to move from a CapEx to an OpEx IT finance model.

Verify Backup and DR Practices

Finally, verification of backup and DR practices are often not performed because of the huge resource draw and potential down-time caused by such an exercise. But, by having these services provide by an Managed Services Provider, DR verification testing should happen at least twice a year, if not quarterly. We don’t need to discuss why it isn’t done – convenience, opportunity, downtime -but the risk of not planning and documenting a full recovery operation only insures that when, or it, this disaster happens, the organization really doesn’t know if the processes and procedures will actually work. A situation best described as untenable.

To learn more about how VPLS can help businesses with business continuity and disaster recovery, visit VPLS Backup Solutions.

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A Special Krypt Promotion for Our Dedicated Users

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Why should you choose Krypt as your server host?

Since our founding in 1998, Krypt has soared into prominence as the dedicated server and hosting division of VPLS, Inc., and currently hosts more than five million websites, as well as 500,000 IPv4 web addresses. And now until the end of February, Krypt is offering its top-rated dedicated servers at a special discounted price! Read on to find out more details about this exclusive offer!

About Our Dedicated Servers

Krypt provides state-of-the-art dedicated servers to our clients, which can be self-managed, and which come equipped with a whole host of powerful features that bring added value to clients. All these servers are manufactured by Intel, the gold standard of servers, and we offer services on a wide range of servers, starting with 8GB of RAM, 500GB of storage, and 10TB of bandwidth. For clients with more robust requirements, we can go all the way up to 128GB of RAM, 240GB of storage, and 10TB of bandwidth. In between these low and high end servers, we offer a great many other options for all those customers who fall somewhere in between, in their computing needs.

Bare Metal Servers

If you’re interested in renting a high-powered server for your exclusive use, we can provide you with a number of different bare-metal server models, along with the assurance that you will be the only client using them. You can choose from processors such as the low-power Atom server to the super-efficient quad-core Xeon processors. You’ll enjoy dedicated resources like CPU, memory, bandwidth, and storage, with total administrator access, and you can also choose from one of three levels of managed services. Any of our supported operating systems can be deployed onto your bare metal server in a matter of minutes, and you can re-deploy as often as needed.

Special Promotion

Since January 15th, and continuing on through February 28th, Krypt is offering a very special promotion on its dedicated servers. Called the ‘Chinese New Year Promotion’, it allows you to subtract 30% of the normal cost of a dedicated server. All you have to do when contacting us is mention the coupon code of C97N19KT, and you’ll be entitled to this very significant discount off the normal price. This promotion is extended to include all upgrades and add-ons, and pre-payment discounts can also be used until the end of February. The end of the month will be coming up fast, so act now to take advantage of the savings you can achieve while this special promotion remains in effect and contact us today!

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Managed Infrastructure

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VPLS provides managed infrastructure that helps businesses secure their devices. In this blog, we are focusing how our managed infrastructure specifically helps schools keep their important data safe. We pointed out three types of infrastructure that we manage and that we find important for schools.

Wireless Security

Wireless networks can be easily exploited because they use airwaves for communication and wireless-enabled laptops are everywhere. The common problems of wireless networks that cause them to be so vulnerable are poor or older access point technology, lack of knowledge amongst employees about security precautions, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. With the increase in use of wireless-enabled devices among employees, confidential data stored on these devices, and ease of engaging in risky wireless behavior, wireless security has become more important.

This can be especially dangerous for schools, as personal devices are using the school’s network and students and teachers might be unaware of the dangers that could arise when they are connected to an unprotected network. Implementing a wireless security system allows the school to discover vulnerabilities, prevent cyber attacks, and assess threats by controlling who gets access to a network.

Specifically valuable for schools, or any large entity, VPLS offers managed wireless security services, 802.1X, which provides network authentication to WIFI and other types of networks. 802.1X makes use of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), a protocol which expands on authentication methods. 802.1X has high wireless security because EAP requires the user to connect to a wireless network through an access point which then requests identification data from the user and transmits that data to an authentication server. The authentication server communicates with the access point to validate the identification and the user is then able to connect to the network.

Network

VPLS’s DUO Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) services ensures strong user and data security through robust authentication methods which clarify users are who they say they are. MFA uses a combination of passwords and biometrics such as finger scan, face recognition, etc. To address the concern of cybersecurity, many companies are implementing MFA because it is one of the best security measures an organization can implement to protect a business and its users and data. According to MarketsandMarkets, MFA market is expected to reach $12.51 billion by 2022, proving that more and more people are realizing its importance. So, why do schools need MFA? As BYOD is growing in schools, MFA is necessary to provide protection against breaches on these devices and keep students’ and teachers’ information safe.

Firewall

Firewalls are important to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. This helps keep devices within a school’s network safe from being attacked over the internet and protects confidential information by controlling access to specific websites and blocking malicious users outside of the network. Management of firewall services is very important because it is any businesses’ first line of defense against hackers and other unauthorized external users. VPLS’s FortiGate firewall services filter incoming and outgoing network traffic, allowing authorized information to flow freely between devices, allowing smooth and safe use of network for the school.

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Let us help you make your school safe from hackers. Our firewall, network security, and wireless security services will ensure that students’ and faculty’s data are secured. Contact us today for your managed infrastructure needs!

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The Importance of Managed SIEM Security in School Districts

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When it comes to cyber-security, K-12 school districts have more to lose now than before. In addition to new threats and breaches, cyber-security can also prevent schools from achieving and maintaining unique K-12 requirements, such as FERPA and CIP, which can lead to numerous funding and liability issues in the long run. Educational institutions are especially susceptible to a multitude of cyberattacks. Along with unexpected breaches, overlooked access points in data systems can provide cybercriminals an entry to obtain classified and valuable data.

While onsite Security Analysts can help monitor your school premises, many signs or evidence of cybercrimes remain buried within your extensive data log which can go unnoticed for long periods of time. Inevitably, some attacks will also go undetected due to human oversight. This is why having VPLS Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) services at your school environment is extremely crucial to help prevent this form of serious data and revenue loss.

Having Managed SIEM Services by VPLS at your district helps Security Analysts identify any potential attack that may cause immediate damage, calling for a quicker response to take preventative action. Our Managed SIEM services record all security-related activities, such as malware related activity patterns, as well as other suspicious activities, like multiple login attempts, and will alert analysts with a detailed report on the incident, ensuring the right people are aware of what is going on. VPLS Managed SIEM services can also help your K-12 environment be FERPA, CIP, and PCI compliant by backing your school with proper legal and operational specifications. VPLS Managed SIEM Services protect and strengthen any vulnerabilities you have within your data system. Experts at VPLS accomplish this by continuous vulnerability monitoring and regular network vulnerability testing.

Why choose VPLS as your Managed SIEM Service provider?

VPLS is an AlienVault Gold Managed Service Provider and deploys AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) to protect thousands of endpoints. Our team of experts are highly skilled and experienced in IT Solutions across-the-board to ensure only the most reliable and professional assistance for your environment. Learn more about how schools can benefit from cyber security.

To learn more about our Managed Security Information Event Management, contact VPLS today!

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