All of us at CSI are techs at heart. We love talking about technical topics. However, we do also sell products. As you go into finalizing your 2019-2020 budgets and summer purchases I just wanted to point out that in 2018 CSI dramatically expanded the products and services we can directly offer you under valid […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – My One and Only “Sales” Post for 2019 – Acquiring Technology
Weekly Tech Tidbit – Singing the RDP blues again……
Hopefully for most of you, this is old news, but I know how busy everyone gets, especially this time of year with the end of school coming upon us. So, in case you missed it Microsoft RDP has been back in the news again as the source in yet another serious vulnerability – dubbed BlueKeep […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – Patch 3rd Party Applications
I was recently reading a security study that said that 25% of applications are unpatched for an entire year! As you approach the summer remember that you need to patch not only the operating system but also all your applications. Many of our biggest threats are application based: Adobe Flash Oracle Java Adobe Reader (PDFs) […]
Weekly Tech Tidbit – Remote Risks and Compliance Part I – Cloud Backup
Now that we have shifted to predominantly remote workers and remote teaching and learning, we have a number of new challenges as well as increased threats. Challenge #1 – Remote File Access. The solution is moving files from traditional home directories and traditional common drives to cloud-based shared folders and home directories.
Weekly Tech Tidbit – E-mail protection mechanisms – Employing DMARC
This tidbit is part three in a series on understanding some mechanisms available to you for protecting e-mail sent from your domain. We covered this topic in last month’s Tech Talk / SYSOP meetings but for all those that missed them or those that want a refresher, I am covering this again here in this […]