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In an age where everything can feel like it’s moving at the speed of light, it’s almost funny how we’ve never quite gotten past the need for email. What other technology has remained relatively unchanged but critical to business and communication over the course of twenty-plus years? While industry leaders and opinion columnists have been […]

Distributed denial of service. It sounds like a boring term, joining a laundry list of IT concepts that may or may not deserve your full attention. Well, increasingly, the threat of a DDoS absolutely does deserve your attention. Just ask any of the thousands of stores that lost sales on October 21, 2016, because they […]