I’m a nerd at heart, and – let’s face it – in action, but I do make an effort to review the materials that our non-technical teams publish. There’s a lot of great information there even if it isn’t in hex or binary. This week, I was reading through a case study for a partner…
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Updated, 20-Jun @ 6:22pm To say that this continues to be a really bad week for the Code Spaces team is a massive understatement. After gaining access to their administrative credentials, an attacker managed to quickly and easily wipe out their entire business. Both production and backup data was destroyed. Steve Ragan has a great…
Read MoreI had the opportunity to participate in my first Automation Nation event in Orlando, Florida this week and came away impressed. I’ve been to numerous IT Nation events in the past so I wasn’t really surprised at the caliber of the event staff. (ConnectWise and LabTech are the same company, and thus their events are…
Read MoreUPDATE: Webinar has been rescheduled due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict. New date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at Noon ET So, you’re moving to the cloud. Maybe in small ways… maybe in big. Regardless, you need to know what to do to ensure your applications and data are secure there. The question is – is…
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Working in Microsoft Azure is exciting. Nowhere was this more evident than at TechEd 2014 – a whirlwind of new features, techniques and designs. Vibhor Kappor has a great summary up on the Azure blog that will help get you up to speed. While you’re reading the announcements, it’s important to keep in mind how security on…
Read MoreTechEd is just kicking off in Houston, Texas. It runs today through Thursday, and the schedule is absolutely jam-packed. One of the hottest topics is going to be Microsoft Azure. Along with the new features and functionality on Microsoft Azure, security is going to be top of mind for most people. Keep in mind that…
Read MoreCitrix Synergy, will kick off May 6th at the Anaheim Convention Center in Los Angeles. This conference has established itself over the years to become a key date in the calendar for IT professionals hoping to learn more about enterprise mobility, virtualization, networking, and cloud. As a Citrix partner and major supporter of the event,…
Read MoreWith any public cloud, security is a shared responsibility between the cloud service provider and you, the user of those services. For IaaS offerings, this usually means the division of responsibilities is as follows: Cloud Service Provider You Facilities Physical security Network infrastructure Virtualization layer Operating system Applications Data If you’ve done work…
Read MoreMicrosoft recently held their annual Build conference. The premier developer event for Microsoft is usually quite predictable. You could safely expect a few incremental improvements in various technologies and fantastic developer sessions on current tech. See for yourself; the sessions are online from 2012 and 2013. Things were different this year. I’ll be addressing the…
Read MoreI recently hosted a webinar on optimizing security for AWS. The goal of the webinar was to help raise awareness of how security changes as you move to the AWS Cloud. I strongly believe that if you’re aware of the changes, you can actually build a stronger security posture for your deployments. The webinar runs…
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