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Are your old back-up CDs and DVDs dying?

Are your old back-up CDs and DVDs dying?

May 28, 2014, Security Tech

Those recordable CDs and DVDs you’ve burned precious data on from the 80s and 90s might be empty discs...

Affant Announces Network Monitoring Upgrade

Affant Announces Network Monitoring Upgrade

October 28, 2011, Boring Tech, Security Tech, Intrusion Detection System, IT Security, managed security service, Managed Services, Network monitoring

Check out the latest press release on the launch of our upgraded AffantWatch Network Monitoring System – October 2011 “Affant Communication...

Security Policy, Network Security, And Desktop Security

July 29, 2011, Security Tech, Backups, data, DNS, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection System, network security, remote access, security, server event/sys logs

Ok, we have all heard them, oxymorons, that is, adopted phrases that seem to describe something but use two...

Head in the Clouds? Hang On; the First Drop Is a Doozie!

Head in the Clouds? Hang On; the First Drop Is a Doozie!

July 19, 2011, Cool Tech, Amazon, architecture, challenges, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, data, economic, Google, political, security, SunGuard, technical, troubleshooting

If you’ve been in the technology business, you’ve been through the “Hype Cycle” of a variety of solutions, e.g.,...

BOTNETs: What They Are and What You Can Do

May 12, 2011, Cool Tech, BOTNET, BOTNETs, Hacker exploits IE8 on Windows 7, IT, managed service provider orange county, network security, remote access, security, ssl, technology, virtualization, VPN

Don’t be BOT and Sold – Winning…DUH! In malware-speak, a”botnet” is a collection of computers that are all infected with...

IPv6…All That You Know Is At An End…

May 12, 2011, Security Tech, DHCPv6, DNS, echo request exploits, ELE, ICMP and multicast, IPv4, IPv6 IPv4 networks, IPv6 tunnels, IPv6 vulnerabilities, mandatory IPSEC, multicast, NDP, Network Advertisement, Network solicitation, QoS, Type 0 routing, Voodoonet

All that you know is at an end… – Silver Surfer No Soup for YOU! At a ceremony held on...

Cloud Security: Mission Impossible?

April 15, 2011, Cool Tech, Security Tech, Amazon, architecture, Backups, challenges, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, data, Disaster Recovery, economic, Firewalls, Google, Host IDS monitors host, Intrusion Detection System, political, SAS 70 audit, security, server event/sys logs, SSAE 16, SunGuard, technical, troubleshooting

With today’s challenges, technical, economic, political, or otherwise, our brave IT Mangers stand at the precipice of a new...

It’s A Trap!: Fallacies of Managed Services

March 29, 2011, Boring Tech, Security Tech, managed service, Managed Services, monitoring, msp, network security

In a galaxy far far away… Information Technology day to day operational transactions have been the force behind the...

Go To the Mattresses: Network Monitoring!

February 12, 2011, Boring Tech, Managed Services, Network monitoring, network security

Ok, so you’ve invested a colossal amount of capital on a rock’n IT infrastructure to support even more expensive...