Lewan Technology Blog

We've been building our next generation security practice at Lewan for over a year now and I’ve learned more than I ever knew about the space before we started. Our new team of Security Analysts run our Security Operations Center (SOC) and provide over-watch for our Network Operations Center (NOC). These teams take security seriously for our clients who take security seriously.

With this have come a lot of best practices and insights. Here are two main points that I hope you’ll find helpful when looking for a managed security service provider.

In the case of an outage, it's important for organizations to prepare their disaster recovery (DR) strategy now so they have a plan in place to prevent business downtime and revenue loss.

As we move more and more clients to the cloud, we want to help them do so with little or no surprises along the way. To facilitate this, we developed a Cloud Optimization & Readiness Assessment to roadmap a strategy that ensures success through evaluating and engaging people, process and technology as part of the overall plan.

But our Professional Services team wasn't satisfied stopping there. To take it a step further, as part of a team "hackathon" challenge, a group of our engineers developed an additional cloud readiness tool to test latency:

Meet the Lewan "Superflux Capacitor"

Are your employees on the lookout for spear phishing emails? Could they spot and prevent one if an attempt is made?

91% of targeted attacks involve spear phishing emails. (Trend Micro)

We're unfortunately seeing an increase in clients falling prey to a common phishing technique called spear phishing. Unlike the wide net cast by other common phishing attempts, spear phishing is directed at specific individuals or companies.

Think of cloud managed services and cloud solutions as a very large menu of al a carte items that you get to select from. For some companies it might make sense to buy one of everything on the menu, for others, just one service.

But developing a cloud strategy and understanding the benefits of the cloud can be confusing. How can the cloud benefit your organization? What problems does the cloud solve? Should you go to the cloud 100% or take a hybrid approach?

Lewan’s cloud, hosting and managed services sit atop the Fortrust data center to provide a solid foundation for our service delivery. We provide an array of IT support and infrastructure options to our clients and having a stable, 100% uptime environment helps us deliver world class support services to our clients.

A good blog post on a problem we're going to face here shortly in the Cisco UC world. Time to prepare...if you need help , we provied Managed Cisco UC Services.

From our internal blog.