Archive for May 2018

The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has both repeated and new key findings about the state of information security. Read the summary of our findings now.

In April 2018, a Personally Identifiable Information (PII) breach associated with Panera Bread Company’s customer loyalty and delivery programs was uncovered. Read this blog to learn what steps your organization can take to protect themselves from being the next breach.

UPDATED: 7/5/2019 Security is a major concern, if not the largest concern, when it comes to cloud computing for all organizations—large or small. With the increasing prevalence of malicious attacks, security and compliance has become a top priority for today’s modern work place. In this blog, we’ll be covering Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS)…

What is endpoint management? What can an endpoint management tool do for your business? Senior VP of Technical Services Mick Shah explains the answers and benefits of investing in an endpoint management system in this blog.

For all the systems administrators out there that use Microsoft SCCM, most will already be aware of a fantastic utility in the SCCM toolkit called CMTrace. In case you don’t have SCCM in your environment, here’s a link to download the System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit from Microsoft. Even if you are not…

Recently while troubleshooting a customer’s mail flow rules to prevent their Exchange Online Protection from quarantining Automatic Replies, I came across a rule that they had created to prevent the system from sending NDRs to spam bots and attackers trying to guess email addresses on their system. Their rule wasn’t configured properly, so it was quarantining their own auto…

This is a quick one, but a Google search of this problem yields no results. I recently ran into an issue installing ESXi 6.5 hanging on a Dell PowerEdge r720. After some research, I found that while the hardware is supported on VMware HCL, the minimum EFI version required is 2.5. I am attempting the…

Description: This document describes a bit of history and functionality of the SNMP protocol for monitoring. SNMP Monitoring and Basic Architecture: SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) was developed in the 80s by the IETF (Internet Engineer Task Force) as part of the IP(Internet Protocol Suite). There have been a few competitors developed by organizations, but over…