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The Cybersecurity news has been pretty depressing over the last week. I read an article that a Cybersecurity insurance company is refusing to pay for a Merck breach incident because it is NotPetya and that is from Russia and was designed as a cyber warfare tool.

We have all heard the story of the Trojan Horse.  The Greeks built it and left it in front of Troy.  The Greek army left.  The Trojans went outside the gates and wheeled it into the city.   At night the Greek version of Special Forces jumped out and destroyed Troy.

Note:  The response to our CyberSecurity Event has been overwhelming.  To accommodate everyone who wants to attend we have moved it to a much large conference room.  We do have a few seats still available.  This is your last chance to sign up for this event.

Bob and are now multiple years in discussing the same thing – how to improve your district’s security footprint.   For most of that time many ignored our warnings as too hard, too expensive, or “on my list”.  But when a member of the family dies, everything  becomes very real and suddenly what is impossible becomes […]

Most of can easily agree that our IT universe has been dominated over the past several months by cybersecurity discussions as we daily (sometimes it feels like hourly) see reports of the next cybersecurity event that has occurred in our nation, state, or sometimes with our peers.

We have been having a lot of discussions about how to better protect against ransomware and other threats with the recent attacks that have happened in area school districts.   Recently, I heard a story about a network that was hit with ransomware.  The network admins cleaned up the mess and started to restore their “air-gapped” […]

Over the past few years, we have been recommending the use of switch stacks in all your MDF and IDF locations.   This has been done to aid in simplifying switch management, but it has led to some confusion from time to time when someone is physically working in one of the network closets.

In my 20s I went to Tahiti and went on a sunset cruise on the famed “Liki Tiki”.   It was an amazing sunset.  Hula girls, and music.   Along the way the Liki Tiki sprung a leak.   It was pitch black, and the boat was taking on water.  The captain and crew knew they were taking […]

A constant frustration of ours is ensuring “clean” backups.   If you corrupt your data or have a server failure, we need to reliably get that data back.  There are a few types of backups.   Image backups are popular with virtualization.  File system backups have always been the gold standard since the dawn of backups.

Hopefully, you all had a relatively sane and productive summer.   Security-related topics have been in the news for most of the summer with several incidents hitting fairly close to home. Perhaps the question I have been asked the most over the last month or so has been “what do I need to do to protect […]