Monitoring is king when it comes to ensuring IT professionals meet their operational commitments and service-level agreements. It’s also fundamental that IT departments align with their business in ...

There's been a bit of a field day in the national media regarding George Mason University graduate student Sean Gorman, who went to the time and trouble of mapping out the nation's fiber-optic ...

The message is simple, but important: Cover the basics. The agency's goals, designed to supplement the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, establish a common set of fundamental cybersecurity practices that ...

Forget about major e-commerce build-outs or fancy infrastructure projects with bells and whistles for 2002. The big IT spending of the past few years—projects such as Y2k remediation, Web-enabling ...

This post continues our ongoing series on extreme weather; and the varied ways in which municipalities throughout the country have handled recovery and future preparations. Federal, state and local ...

Critical infrastructure organizations are undergoing dramatic changes in their technology and cybersecurity landscapes that make them both more efficient and more vulnerable. Power, oil and gas, ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial ...

Fiber no longer functions as a passive backbone interconnecting largely uniform compute systems. Optical infrastructure now ...