Please join us for CSI’s Cybersecurity Event, Session Three! We will continue to build the list of actions you can take to better protect your district from the current threat landscape. Speaker: Justin Pennock, Cisco Cybersecurity Sales Specialist Session Description: Go on the offensive and join us for a demo on Cisco Umbrella […]

K-12 education has been turned upside down. Remote learning is obviously the term du jour. At the same time as we are figuring out what remote instruction means, school districts still have to keep the buildings safe and run all the back-office functions.

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.

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.

On Wednesday, October 3rd Cisco Meraki will be running a hands-on workshop where you can learn all about the new additions to Cisco Meraki’s cloud-managed portfolio. The event will include:  Hands-On Workshop  Coverage of the entire Meraki full stack portfolio  Lunch with your Cisco Meraki Team *Please bring your laptop to participate in the hands-on […]

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 […]

In the real world, it’s no longer a matter of if an attacker will get in, but when and for how long. Is your district really prepared? I am pleased to invite you to 2nd Annual Security event on Dec 5, 2017, in our offices in Fishkill. This year’s event will feature actual hands-on experiences […]

CSI is excited to announce that the folks from Cisco Meraki in California will be in our office to lead a discussion on the following Cisco Meraki Cloud managed products

As your datacenters grow,  your need for safe, reliable, fast shared storage grows.  While the traditional workhorse Dell EqualLogic SANs are very good, there is an increasing need for faster storage solutions that can fully integrate into a variety of virtual and backup/storage solutions.

**Due to overwhelming demand Cisco has changed their plans and graciously agreed to hold a second Cisco Security session in the afternoon.  The content is identical for each session** Security is the hot topic these days.  If you have attended one of our most recent Tech Talk or SYSOP sessions, you have heard Bob speak […]