What Is “The Cloud?”

“The Cloud.” Do we have it? Do we need it? The nature of “the cloud” is nebulous. The truth is there is no cloud, just other people’s computers. It’s more of a concept than it is a thing. Files “in the cloud” are stored in servers that are distributed all over the world. Cloud computing is […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About a Managed Service Provider but Were Afraid to Ask… well, Almost everything.

What is a Managed Service Provider (MSP)? A managed service provider (MSP) is a company that is responsible for the day-to-day tasks or services that it takes to keep your network up and running. An MSP will traditionally manage and monitor an organization’s computers, servers, router, switches, wireless devices and any other system required for their IT […]
Will You Be Ready When Ransomware Strikes?

Protecting Your Network from Ransomware: Firewall Lets start out by defining a “firewall.” A firewall is hardware or software solution designed to control access to or from a private network. Any firewall-based protection is only effective against traffic that is actually coming through the firewall. Firewalls will not protect you from an infected USB device plugged into […]
How to Prevent Network Downtime and Calculate It’s Cost

Unconcerned about network outages? You might want to be. Based on the 2016 Ponemon Institute’s annual report, The range of cost for network outages is between $137 and $17,244 per minute. Regardless of the size of your company, network outages affects an organization’s bottom line. What is the plan to prevent outages and their costs […]
Is Your Web Site Secure

Chrome 68 was released yesterday. This update will now prominently mark all non-HTTPS websites as ‘Not Secure.’ If you have not enabled HTTPS for your website, any visitors running the current version of Chrome will be greeted by a “Not Secure” tag at the beginning of the URL. The ‘Not Secure,’ tag is Google’s way […]
Its Moving Day!!!

The good news is that your business is growing. Revenues are increasing. Clients are happy. You are adding staff to meet the increased demand for your product or service. Growth is a wondrous thing but it comes with its share of problems. Increased revenue often means increased staffing needs and more equipment which, many times […]
Questions for Pythia: To The Cloud…?

This first post in “Questions for Pythia” is about “Cloud Services”: Q: Are Cloud Services safe? Like anything else in your business, “The Cloud” is only as safe as the way you use it. In the vast majority of breeches, people are the common denominator…people are the linchpin to security. Cloud services in one form […]
Spear Phishing

I have been watching the reports from our Doru Managed Firewall system and I have noticed over the past few month a marked increase in the number of phishing attacks. I checked out a few other sources and confirmed this observation. May reports show about 10,000 unique phishing emails and June is sitting at about […]

Gateway Protection against Web-Borne Threats The internet is, without a doubt, the #1 vector for threats to your company’s network security. Everything from run of the mill malware and phishing attacks to far more dangerous ransomware. The threat takes many forms… an email that claims to be from a legitimate vendor asking them to reset […]
Still Running Windows 7?

If your business has already migrated to Windows 10, you can stop reading this post, mark it off your list and go about the rest of your day. But, if you have even one computer running Windows 7, then this post will serve as a brief road map for what the next two years will […]