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Unifi Communications achieves Advanced Video Specialization from Cisco in the UK
London 02/06/2016 In response to rising demand for video conferencing solutions, Unifi Communications have announced today that they have achieved Advanced Video Specialization status from Cisco. This specialisation recognises Unifi Communications as having fulfilled the stringent training and qualification requirements set by Cisco to provide end-to-end business phone systems and collaboration solutions, such as Cisco Business Edition 6000.
Video conferencing is becoming the tool for all organisations wanting to enable all of their stakeholders to work together more effectively. It is being adopted quickly and the demand for innovative, user-centric video endpoints is ramping up for every mid-sized business in the UK.
Based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham and with nearly 15 years experience as a Cisco partner, Unifi Communications have made a name for themselves supporting clients ranging in size from 20 to 2,500 employees to communicate with colleagues and customers more quickly, from any device.
Advanced Video and Collaboration Solutions for our customers
Following years of steadily increasing investment, Cisco have been named as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for delivering simple, innovative, and connected user experience and they are revolutionising the communications market with video conferencing solutions that encompass mobile devices, desktop phones and video endpoints to the most advanced room and immersive systems.
“As part of our commitment to our customers, Unifi Communications continually invest time in training to achieve the highest levels of expertise so we can deliver differentiated business value by offering the range of advanced Unified Communications and Video Collaboration solutions that our customers require”, comments Managing Director Rob Coleman.
A business consultant for the most advanced communication trends
The Cisco Advanced Video Specialization indicates that Unifi Communications are a dedicated team of professionals, providing an end-to-end service that translates into cost-effective solutions, including a broad portfolio of network infrastructure, security, Cisco phone systems, wireless products and advanced collaboration solutions such as Cisco Business Edition 6000, Contact Centre and video conferencing based around Cisco TelePresence.
This is supported by Cisco Expressway, which is designed specifically to enable remote and mobile workers to communicate more effectively with their office-based colleagues by using their device of choice, or a mobile app such as Cisco Jabber.
As a highly responsive, customer-focused small business, Unifi Communications service portfolio spans the entire Service Delivery Lifecycle – from design, fulfilment, deployment and integration through to maintenance, operational support and managed services.
Rob Coleman adds “Unifi’s success has been built on technical expertise and a commitment to outstanding customer service. Our successful implementations of Cisco Business Edition 6000 and TelePresence solutions have proven that our on-going commitment to Cisco gives our customers the confidence that they are dealing with a reliable partner who offer only the most appropriate Cisco collaboration, networking and video solutions for their requirements.
Their bond with Cisco also provides Unifi Communications with an award-winning partner program to deliver financial strength, with the ability to address budget constraints thanks to Cisco Capital; technical support, with a 24-hour response time for problem resolution and 24-hour on-site response capabilities and an industry-leading portfolio of products and services to provide their customers with an unparalleled offer in the business phone systems market.
DDoS attacks: They are worse than you can think
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are getting worse than what it was a few years ago. Although we should not blame the popularity of the internet, digitalization, and technological progression for this, but that holds the harsh truth. Cyber-crimes are increasing at the same pace as that of Internet technology.
Understanding Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
Any attempt to choke an online service with heavy artificial traffic from several malicious sources is considered to be DDoS attacks. Earlier, only the large corporate were at its risk, but now any business, small, medium or large, are not spared by DDoS attackers.
DDoS attacks have become worse with the time. Today, it is not only related to inconvenience and slower online speed but now it is also causing network intrusions and businesses are even suffering financial losses. Banks are also at the risk of Distributed Denial of Service attacks which is a very bad news for all who prefer online banking services, online shopping etc. Our crucial banking and transactional information are at stake.
It has become so dangerous that even tech giant like Microsoft had to bear its brunt. Few months ago, Microsoft Xbox Live went interrupted for several hours due to DDoS attacks. Many banks have also been targeted and affected by DDoS attacks. 2016 will see the rise of Internet of Things. This is a great news but at the same time, it potentially attracts DDoS attackers which is a worrisome matter.
How can businesses get Immunity against DDoS
DDoS attacks can be prevented only by following strict security protocols. Protecting your website and web applications with HTTP or HTTPS will not be enough. Neither the network firewall can help stop DDoS attempts to the website and web applications. Your business needs more DDoS security layers.
Below are some great DDoS security solutions to protect your business from any loss:
Web Application Firewall: Apart from Network Firewall, also use web application firewall because only Network Firewall will not protect the web applications. It will leave your web applications vulnerable to DDoS risks. So, web application firewall will combat DDoS attacks in more effective ways.
Blocking the suspicious traffic: There are few requests screening methods to identify the malicious traffic from the genuine ones. This is based on real-time insights as well as some historical analysis. Once the malign traffic is identified, it can be blocked from the network. However, this should be regularly updated, monitored and executed.
CAPTCHA requests: Another indispensable solution to immune your business from DDoS attacks is to include online CAPTCHA test as it can detect script injections and suspicious traffic requests.
Cloud-on-premises: Cloud solutions can help you keep away from the Distributed Denial of Service attacks. When your business is using Cloud services, all the incoming traffic is first redirected to the cloud through DNS manipulation where the traffic is filtered and then sent to the destination server. This is one of the strongest DDoS protection solutions.
Some high-end DDoS protection solutions use IP reputation intelligence and fingerprinting, robot testing etc. However, the best ever practice that a business should always follow to secure the data from any kind of threat or disaster is to save the backup of data. Choose Cloud Backup solutions for enough storage, easy data access and even for DDoS security.