Resources

Whether you are a sports enthusiast, a volunteer, or part of a work team, you have experienced first-hand the importance of good teamwork. We have all experienced what happens when a team works together, and when a team does not.

We live in interesting times and continue to face some very unique challenges to keep your school district safe and stable so teachers can teach, students can learn and the staff behind the scenes can do all the important tasks that make the district function well.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) has become a security buzzword. It simply means using email to attack and gain access to your network. *Phishing* or *Spearphishing* are other terms you will hear. It has been estimated that 70% of the attacks against most sites come from email.

Welcome back! It was a very busy summer for all of us. Summer and the start of the school year felt much more “normal” to us. Putting my parent hat on, my youngest’s third-grade teacher approached me and told me she wished she had a classroom full of my daughter.

I learned to drive “on the wrong side of the road” on a Monday morning in downtown London.   I hit my first object in about 50 feet when I ran over the cross beam of a crowd fence and it bounced up and tapped my car.   It was scary, but I eventually got to the […]

Late in the afternoon on a Friday, I created a bit of a scare for those of you who are part of our Paladin Sentinel monitoring system.  I was doing my due diligence removing a monitoring policy we experimented with after our last major system upgrade, but didn’t provide any value to us or you.

We have recently been approached by many school districts to talk to their district office staff and in some instances their faculty about phishing and security as it relates to money and personally identifiable information (PII).  These have been in the form of either special in-service training for district office/business office staff or as part […]

We have a new technology coming online with all the popular web browsers.  It is called DNS over HTTPS or DoH.   The concept is instead of using your internal DNS to resolve web pages, the web browser goes back to an external DNS site to resolve the page.

We all understand the scourge of Ransomware.   It is debilitating.   Even in the best case, it consumes a huge amount of time to recover.  However, now the bad guys are getting even more nasty.   They want their money.   If you decide you can recover or don’t care, they get nothing.

  “You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.” ― Jim Butcher Recently we had the former White House Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) on our webinar talking about the Ukrainian war and its impact on us.