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 […]

Tech Tidbit – Let’s Talk About Security – We Will Come To You!

Tech Tidbit – Do you understand DoH? Steps you need to take now to prevent chaos with your web filtering
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.

Tech Tidbit – Ransomware is getting a whole lot nastier
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.

Tech Tidbit – You don’t have to be faster than the bear….
“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.

Tech Tidbit – Online Credential Theft
I was watching a panelist discussion post-mortem discussing firsthand knowledge of 25 major ransomware-style breaches. One of the panelists was an award-winning, ex-NSA offensive hacker. One item that was stressed as a common theme across many breaches was credential theft being the number one way bad people get into the network.
Protect Your District from Business Email Compromise
Please join us *tomorrow – Wednesday, October 12th* for an upcoming webinar focusing on Business Email Compromise. Jason Whitehurst, a cybersecurity professional, will be speaking about the significant increase in business email compromises for school systems.

VMware vSphere Users – Urgent End of Life Notice
All versions of vSphere prior to version 7.0 are about to be retired from support I would like to make you aware that on October 15th, 2022, all VMware vSphere versions prior to version 7.x will no longer be supported by VMware.

Weekly Tech Tidbit – I challenge you to prove your backups work
“None shall pass” -The Black Knight “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” Today I would like to challenge you to “test two aspects of your network backups. Most of you have never done this because yPreview (opens in a new tab)ou are “too busy putting out fires”. It is summer.

Weekly Tech Tidbit – The attack of the Smart TVs
A few years ago, in a Tech Talk I talked about a major college that suffered a complete network lockout due to a soda machine that introduced malware into the network that sought out all the default passwords on their devices and locked out an estimated 5,000 devices that each had to be manually […]

Weekly Tech Tidbit – Paper’s Please
The first line of email defense is a properly formed SPF record “Paper’s Please” Those words denote fear. Some official, authority person (often with a gun and with lots of their co-workers with guns) is asking for identification at a checkpoint.