Entries by Carl Easterday

Cisco drives that operate for 40k hours will cease to function

Cisco just announced a new Field notice regarding Defect ID CSCvt55829 which is an industry wide firmware index bug. Under normal operation, after 40,000 power-on hours (4.5 years), the SSD will report that 0 GB of available storage space remains. The drive will go offline and become unusable. These drives were used in the following […]

Ransomware and the impact to your business

Everyday, you read another story about how a company has been hit by a ransomware attack, which potentially can disrupt your business, services to your clients and livelihood of your employees. Just last week it was announced another company, Forward Air, was hit by a ransomware attack, which disrupted services and impacted revenue.  This attack […]

Cyber-security Training can save the day!

So you have secured your business. Firewall, VPN for work from home, radius authenticated WiFi or perhaps an RDS gateway for remote desktops.  Anti-virus is up to date, patching is top notch, SaaS applications locked up with two-factor authentication. What about educating your workforce?  Although Phishing is only the 5th most common primary cause of […]

Can your small business survive during the Covid crisis?

The management stresses that are pressed upon small business owners during this time of crisis are many fold.  How do you keep your business afloat during the crisis that diminishes your ability to react, with your staff either working from home, or limited in their ability to interact with each other and customers. Companies need […]

Why your company needs to have a network and infrastructure assessment

Many times, we have been contacted by companies that want us to ‘replace our hyper-visor infrastructure’ or ‘update our server infrastructure’ because of perceived issues in performance or user experience.  Unfortunately, by bypassing the critical step of a full network and infrastructure assessment, companies miss out on identifying the root cause of security issues and […]

Windows 7 end of support January 20th, 2020

Yes, another article on the end of support for Windows 7. We’re now in June, and there is limited time to plan your workstation upgrades and work with your software vendors to upgrade your servers to 2016 or 2019 server. Workstation Roll outs:  If your business is still running Windows 7, now, really, now is […]

Is your business paying attention to cyber-security?

There are many resources available to help your IT team or outsourced partner meet some of the basic policies to protect your business: A network with a firewall, encrypting data, cyber-security insurance and a next generation AI endpoint protection. But despite these options, over a third of organizations still admit they are unprepared for cyber […]