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By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 7/19 Respond to Business Challenges with Agile Storage (Pure Storage) Unexpected events are inevitable. With agile data storage, you can stay modern while responding to your business needs in an economical way. https://bit.ly/3itfB9o Check Point Software showcases new offerings, integrations, and tools at Microsoft Inspire 2021 The decades-long partnership between Microsoft and Check Point Software Technologies is not only a strong building block for our companies, it’s also a great tool f... read more.

• August 06, 2021

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure, Security

One of the benefits of Microsoft 365 is the ability for users to collaborate and share with co-workers, clients, vendors, partners, and people external to the organization. This benefit, however, comes with a downside; users can either purposely or inadvertently expose information that the organization would not want shared externally.   To complicate matters, newly established tenants leave the door wide-open for publishing data to external entities. As a result, users can share data with outside ind... read more.

• July 27, 2021

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Uncategorized

As many of us return to work and the world feels like it’s returning to normal, it can be easy to forget that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t completely behind us. Cases are surging in parts of the country, and for a growing number of people, their initial case of COVID was just the beginning of an ongoing ordeal known as long COVID, post-COVID, or long-haul COVID. This terrible affliction has stricken one of the Gotham family and we are rallying around Jason. Jason is Fara Smith’s twin broth... read more.

• July 26, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 7/12 What’s new with Citrix Workspace — June 2021 We continue to make the employee experience better and more productive for workers and the IT management process more automated, seamless and intuitive for the  IT teams that manage digital infrastructure. With each month that goes by, we find new ways to bring innovations to market to reach those goals. https://bit.ly/3r30lnL QLC: Yes, It’s Real and People Want It (Pure Storage) Not only are we eliminating the need for hyb... read more.

• July 16, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/28 Make Internet Access Safe - Adopt Zero Trust Network Security! (Palo Alto Networks) As applications move to the cloud and users work from anywhere, securing internet access has moved to the forefront in the battle against cybercriminals. https://bit.ly/3qx9Ifl 5 White House Recommendations for Modern Data Protection Against Ransomware (Pure Storage) In response to these increasing cyber threats, the White House recently raised ransomware to the top of the national security agenda, issuing a... read more.

• July 09, 2021

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure, Security

With anti-malware scanning software it is very important to have the proper malware exclusions in place. A misconfiguration of these settings may lead to performance issues which can may cause outages of critical applications and services due to file contention and locking. IT administrators need to find a balance between a malware-free environment and affecting the reliability and performance of any applications or services. Anti-malware exclusions can come from a variety of sources. Each anti-malwar... read more.

• July 02, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/21 Getting on Target: Attacker’s Perspective of your Attack Surface Join Randori and Gotham for a virtual lunch on June 23rd at 12PM Famous hacker, Aaron Portnoy (featured on the cover of Time magazine), will break down how hacker’s prioritize vulnerabilities on your attack surface. Attendees will receive a $25 Uber Eats gift card, and the opportunity to get a free hacker assessment of your perimeter that includes a custom ShadowIT report. https://info.randori.com/gotham-lunch Our... read more.

• June 25, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/14 Return of the Darkside: Analysis of a Large-Scale Data Theft Campaign (Varonis) The Darkside ransomware group announced their RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) in August of 2020 via a “press release.” Since then, they have become known for their professional operations and large ransoms. https://bit.ly/2TZsyzf DataOps: Optimizing the Data Experience (Pure Storage) As organizations embark on digital transformation initiatives, they need to identify business processes and related ser... read more.

• June 18, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 6/7 Streaming Live Data is the Heart of Observability (CrowdStrike) For security, much of the power of Humio comes from its ability to ingest live streaming data and make it immediately available to update alerts, visualizations, and perform queries. This is the backbone for achieving complete observability and making an environment more secure. https://bit.ly/3zavYiM Pure Storage: A Leader in the GigaOm Radar for High-Performance Object Storage Pure Storage was not only named as a leader in the... read more.

• June 11, 2021

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 5/24 Executive Order on Cybersecurity Addresses Zero Trust In response to a growing number of serious cyber threats and incidents, President Biden has issued an Executive Order (EO) regarding improving the nation’s cybersecurity. https://bit.ly/2RATHbc Citrix TIPs: Choosing the best path for your Citrix upgrade Your Citrix upgrade doesn’t have to be a daunting experience, but it does require proper planning and change control to avoid disruption to your end users. https://bit.ly/3vt... read more.

• June 04, 2021