Back on January 29th, there was a flurry of discussion in the IT world about the announcement from Cisco of an Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability. Originally announced as only affecting the ASA and latest code versions of the Firepower Threat Defense firewalls, over the next few weeks […]

  The call came in.  We have a serious virus outbreak.  Can you help? Over the years we have been asked this question time and time again.   Viruses have been predictable.   Their infection routes could be easily discerned.  Then it became a matter of discipline – Update clients, scan systems, re-image trashed machines.

The 2018 Yankees have taken the field.  We’ll all find out soon who is playing second and third base. In the meantime, I want to continue my discussion of the basics of patching. Many sites decide not to patch or patch only in the summer.

The Snort IPS engine is at the core of both the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense and Cisco Meraki IPS systems. Maintained by Cisco’s Talos Group, the Snort Engine, and its signatures are licensed to the world via the open source GPL and as such it is the most widely distributed IPS engine in the world.

Now that the NFL season is over we turn our eyes to Valentines Day when Yankees Pitchers and Catchers report for Spring training.   It is the time of the baseball year when we go back to basics to shake the rust off the foundational aspects of the game.

I wanted this week to take a few minutes to share with you our latest thinking on the Intel Spectre and Meltdown fiasco. In a nutshell, there are two issues: An actual hardware flaw that exists in Intel and other compatible processor chips.

One area of security we often overlook is that of the servers themselves. Most of our servers have some sort of remote access card built into them to provide remote access in case the server is hung up as well as to provide enhanced alerting of hardware errors.

CSI and Microsoft are excited to present a Windows 10 in Education Deployment and Manageability Workshop on Wednesday, February 28th from 8:30-12pm.  Microsoft will be coming to our office and providing a very detailed presentation on all things Microsoft relating to the deployment, management licensing, and upgrading of Windows 10 in education.

One of the most frustrating things for users and the technical staff that support them is erratic email flow.  Often users and staff don’t know that their email is stuck or being rejected.  By the time the technical staff often realize there is a problem, a whole lot of email has backed up – or […]

The requirements of K-12 are increasingly for anytime, anyplace learning as students use various devices both inside the district and at home.   One to one initiatives are stretching our ability to reliably deliver the applications that our students and staff need access too.