Ascend wants you to stay secure this holiday season. The end of the year brings with it a dramatic increase in cybersecurity events. So how do you handle these holiday hackers? Keep these tips in mind to stay secure in the New Year.

The traditional standards set for workplaces are changing. According to Gallup, 45% of Americans working full-time jobs are working from home either part-time or entirely. With an increasingly decentralized office IT infrastructure, companies have had to pivot to fit their changing workforce. One of the most popular improvements has been the transition to cloud-based hosting.Cloud platforms allow...

The results are in, and remote work is here to stay. According to a Gallup poll, 91% of U.S. workers currently working fully or partially remote hope to continue working remotely after the pandemic. For employers, that means taking the necessary steps to support a fully remote or hybrid workforce. If they don't, they risk losing talent, as 30% of workers say they are highly likely to seek out...

Operating in a digital world comes with the risk of losing everything in a cyber incident. It’s estimated that a ransomware attack takes place every 11 seconds, and our team has observed an increasing number of businesses having their backups targeted in these attacks. So, when bad actors penetrate your environment, how do you go from being a victim of ransomware to a victor of ransomware?

It’s easy to fall behind on your organization’s technology, and the marketplace usually isn’t very forgiving. While your hardware ages, the technology you need to support your customers and maintain a productive workforce keeps advancing. Ultimately, you end up with computers and tech that can’t meet the demands of the newest applications, limiting your efficiency and potentially leading to...

Until early 2020, the oft-heard pushback from legacy security practitioners was that cloud computing could never be as secure as on-premise operations. With the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically and rapidly expanding work-from-home demands, many "cloud naysayers" were forced to adopt at least some elements of the cloud.

Many organizations assume that data moved to PaaS (Platform as a Service) platforms in the cloud does not require any administration, because “it’s managed by the cloud.” In reality, only a small portion of database administrator tasks are automated/included with a PaaS managed solution.

In today’s data-driven world, it is difficult to believe there are still organizations out there that do not have a good handle on their own data. While it is possible to list out and describe numerous benefits of a good Data Management strategy, this article will focus on some of the risk involved in ignoring data management, or not having a cohesive strategy for business data. We will break...

Today’s organizations are focusing more and more on data, analytics, and business intelligence to drive business decisions and profitability. They are becoming more reliant on the availability and accuracy of data, in order to maintain profitability.

With the incredible advancements in the cloud, many companies are looking to migrate their workloads in order to save costs and stay relevant in these fast-changing times. A large part of the migration relates to moving data workloads. While all cloud providers provide some sort of managed relational database service, each provider has distinct advantages. There are numerous links and blog posts...

Organizations that do not have data management and governance policies are at increased risk for of data corruption and data breaches.

Maintaining data in a hybrid environment comes with its own set of challenges

In today’s data-driven economy, availability of data has become one of the most important factors in an organization’s success. Ensuring data remains available when issues occur provides organizations with the ability to maintain productivity throughout the business, even when disaster strikes.

Data is Important. In today’s digital world, organizations are relying more and more on data, information, and analytical insights to grow their business. In a small-to-medium business, however, you might hear something like ‘I don’t have any data,’ or ‘I don’t need any data employees, we’re not big enough for it to matter.’ In this article, we’ll show how ‘data’ is more than just databases, why...