Patching is vital to securing systems from known vulnerabilities, but it’s also a risk that can bring down those systems if you deploy a bad patch. In order to maintain the proper risk balance you should focus on patches that close vulnerabilities. Even once you establish your risk balance, you are continually under the threat […]
The Evolution of Mobile Security Information Security is a major priority in today’s mobile driven world. While devices like your phone are meant to be as accessible as possible, the contents are meant to remain private. Apple, a mobile industry leader, is always developing better solutions to keep your information safe. However, for every step […]
Veeam have put together an excellent guide ‘The Essential Guide to the Biggest Challenges with Cloud Backup & Cloud Disaster Recovery‘. As one of our chosen backup partners, I urge any data and data security conscious I.T Admin to review this document, it gives a great overview on Veeam’s newest technology such as ‘Disaster Recovery […]
We’ve all been there: Apple releases a new iOS update and everyone is going ham. Pretty soon you have a few dozen employees leveraging the internet to get their latest fix. These updates aren’t small, and the impact they will have for all the other users isn’t small either. How do we allow users to […]
Have you ever thought about digging into the underbelly of your phone system to see what it can really do? Chat room integration? CRM/ERP integration? How about extending it to your employees’ cell phones? That’s not even the end of the possibilities. If you can imagine it, it’s probably possible. Over the years we have […]
Technical support is heavily dictated by technology. Numerous advances in technology have been rapid and have created various paradigm shifts. In recent years, technical support services have changed a lot to catch up with the ever-increasing and diversifying technology trends, not just for business clients, but also for consumers. From “bring your own device” (BYOD) […]
When 802.11AC was introduced, we found it to be the most amazing thing since sliced bread. It was dramatically faster than 802.11N, backwards compatible, and mostly interference free. Today, we will discuss what 802.11AC-Wave2 brings to the table and how we feel about it. 802.11AC-Wave2 – Features and Enhancements Supports speeds up to 2.34 Gbps […]
In recent years, we have seen a significant growth in Malware. With enablers such as Bitcoin, RSA 2048-bit encryption, and the TOR network, NetCal predicts there will continue to be a significant rise in Crypto Ransomware. The use of these malicious applications are morphing as we speak. Originally, they were to gain access to computers and […]
Since last year, we’ve been telling our clients to hold off on upgrading. We even used Group Policy and our Management Agents to disable the upgrade patch. It’s been a long and treacherous journey, but we finally believe Windows 10 is ready for Prime Time. We’ve even seen it increase performance in some older machines. We […]
Introduction When you need to back up large amounts of data, you want to use up as little disk space as possible in order to minimize backup storage costs. However, with host-based image-level backups, traditional technologies force you to back up the entire virtual machine (VM) image, which presents multiple challenges that were never problems […]