Articles In Technology Week in Review

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 5/9 We would like to welcome Mark Taylor to Gotham Technology Group. Working with our highly accomplished Outside Sales team, Mark will help us meet the increased market demand for IT security and infrastructure services. We are excited to have you join us! https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-taylor/ Improved Phishing Reporting and Remediation with Email Warning Tags “Report Suspicious” (Proofpoint) Our HTML-based email warning tags have been in use for some time now. And we’re hap... read more.

• May 13, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 5/2 What’s new and next with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops: Q&A (Citrix) With our updates on the Long-Term Service Release (LTSR), optimizing unified communications platforms, security enhancements, and more, there are a number of enhancements we want to dive deep into. https://bit.ly/39wOhXg Cracks forming in the ransomware ecosystem (Check Point) Thanks to the efforts of white hat researchers and security specialists, as well as governments around the world now strengthening their... read more.

• May 06, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/25 Get more out of your native Azure Virtual Desktop with the Citrix Optimization Pack (Citrix) The Citrix Optimization Pack for Azure Virtual Desktop is a new Citrix offering for optimizing native Azure Virtual Desktop workloads. It includes Workspace Environment Management (WEM) service within Citrix Cloud as the primary offering, which you can use to better manage, optimize, and secure your native Azure Virtual Desktop environments. https://bit.ly/3xMTVi1 Not All Firewalls Can Do Zero Trust... read more.

• April 29, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/18 ICYMI: Gotham’s CTO, Ken Phelan, was joined by Palo Alto Networks’ Field CTO, Jason Georgi, where they discussed Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and if the technology is ready for primetime. See the link below for the full video. https://bit.ly/3xvtm0G Wide Open Outbound Firewall Policy – Part 1 Although the open policy allows for ease of use (for systems administrators), it also introduces significant risks attached to users operating applications that are in the range f... read more.

• April 22, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Tuesday 4/5 Spring4Shell flaw: Here's why it matters, and what you should do about it While there was initial debate about how serious the bug is, sleuthing by security researchers in the days afterwards after the flaw was discovered revealed that Spring4Shell was indeed a serious bug that warranted attention. https://zd.net/3DEMPNv From SolarWinds to Log4j: The global impact of today’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities (Check Point) The case for organizations of all shapes and sizes to have a compre... read more.

• April 08, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/28 CISA Adds 66 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog CISA has added 66 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. https://bit.ly/3DkrkRH From the Shotgun Approach to Triple Extortion: The Evolving Ransomware Threat (Fortinet) Although overall ransomware remains a top concern, there ar... read more.

• April 01, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/21 Cloud Services Under Attack: Closing the Virtual Open Doors to Cyber Crime (Check Point) Tightening cloud security isn’t just about having the right products and services in place, it’s also about nurturing a security-first mentality within an organization as a whole. https://bit.ly/3Jx1Ov8 What Is a Botnet? Definition and Prevention (Varonis) Botnets can be used in other ways and have been known to be leveraged by criminal hacker groups to steal data and further compromise othe... read more.

• March 25, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/14 A Defense-in-Depth Strategy to Phishing Prevention (Proofpoint) As the threat landscape continues to evolve, organizations need to invest in multilayered defenses to stop threats that target people. It’s important to shift budgets as necessary to the threats causing the greatest risk and impact to organizations. https://bit.ly/3JbfonH Key Findings from the 2H 2021 FortiGuard Labs Threat Report (Fortinet) The 2021 threat landscape presented several new challenges for security teams. Bu... read more.

• March 18, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/7 Your Blueprint to Implement an Insider Threat Management Program (Proofpoint) Organizations need to adopt a new mindset to efficiently adapt to this new normal, one that enables a transformation of their insider threat management strategies. It starts by understanding the insider threat risk. https://bit.ly/3vH3Jcl Service Continuity in Citrix Cloud: A recipe for resiliency Citrix admins can put service continuity to the test and proceed with enabling it in their production environment. If y... read more.

• March 11, 2022

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/21 Simplify IT administration with Workspace Environment Management (Citrix) The Scripted Task solution in Workspace Environment Management (WEM) helps to simplify the management of your daily tasks through these scripts, ensuring the security of the scripts you’re deploying and running without adding complexity to your day. https://bit.ly/3InrfyJ 6 Ways Big Data Analytics Can Drive Down Costs (Pure Storage) More businesses are using big data to cut costs and increase profits. It’s... read more.

• March 04, 2022