Topic: coronavirus

Cybersecurity

The Pandemic’s Impact on Ransomware

There is seemingly no end to the cyberthreats perpetuated during this extended time of pandemic crisis; malicious actors are laser focused in their opportunistic pursuits! ...

Analysis

Cloud and SMB Deriving Long Term Benefits From Pandemic IT Decisions

According to a recent Analysis Mason survey, 28% of US small/medium businesses (SMB) adopted collaboration tools for the first time due to the pandemic, with 43% of businesses...

Analysis

Security concerns in a remote workforce

According to a recent Gallup survey, over 60% of Americans worked from home during the height of the pandemic crisis in March; a percentage that doubled from 30% in just three...

Allocating budgets:

What are CIOs doing before, during and after a pandemic?

In recent years leading up to the early 2020 pandemic, some of the top CIO budget priorities were implementation of analytics, application modernization and various forms of c...

Java with Otava: CIO Recommendations during COVID-19

In the latest installment of the Java with Otava series, Product Director Jeremy Bigler discusses recommendations from Gartner and 451 Research for CIOs and CTOs in the wake o...

Otava donates 1,000 boxes of cereal to Food Gatherers

To help with COVID-19 relief efforts

In challenging times like these, we need to do all we can to come together and help each other out. Otava's own Mike Kroon, director of enterprise sales, took that to heart by...

Best practices

For the remote worker

From the time the internet was born in 1983 until 1987, the US telecommuting population grew to 1.5 million. In mid-2019, the US telecommuter population reached 4.7 million pe...

How the CIO’s biggest challenges

Evolved in 2020

Year after year, the biggest challenges facing CIOs seem to be, at least in part, an evolution of the previous year’s biggest challenges. Reviewing a 2018 CIO magazine survey,...

Cybersecurity and coronavirus:

Cyber threats are on the rise

As most security and government sources had predicted, distributing workforces in the time of coronavirus has provided cyber criminals with many new threat opportunities. The ...

Disaster recovery and business continuity

in the remote workforce environment

In the decades-long evolution of the remote worker, policy, data protection, security and compliance all kept pace with the rollout of users and applications. Today, there is ...

Network Security in the time of

Novel Coronavirus

It’s not a new tact for cybercriminals to be opportunists in times of global crisis or when workforce attention is focused on important national or regional events. Today, nov...

An update regarding

COVID-19

Based on the evolving worldwide situation with COVID-19 outbreak, we wanted to provide an update on our efforts at Otava to mitigate the spread of the virus. Rest assured, our...

Business continuity and Coronavirus 2019:

Business tips for employee health and safety

The novel COVID-19 (coronavirus), first identified December 2019, has fairly exploded and raised many fears about the health and safety of our family and friends, and rightly ...

PSA: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparedness

PSA: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparedness