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By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

Today’s privacy laws and regulations require privacy by design and by default for systems, networks, and applications. ISACA is creating a Privacy Certification. The certification targets IT professionals that implement defenses. It is intended to assess an individual’s ability to design and implement privacy by design. The work is for cross-functional design work and expected to bridge legal and technical functions. These individuals will work with operations, systems, security, application an... read more.

• April 10, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/6 Wait One Damn Moment, Please Systems implementations are a delicate balancing act, requiring immense time and planning. So throwing in a new app during a routine deployment without doing your due diligence may make things much more difficult in the long run. https://bit.ly/3aOOS29 A practical approach for managing risk (Citrix) Considering the impact that a cyber-security event can have, companies need to have in place a proper risk management framework that aligns with changing business pri... read more.

• April 10, 2020

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

Just wait one damn moment, please. I wonder how many of my fellow IT professionals have experienced some variation of this: You walk into the office on a sunny morning thinking about the tasks you need to do for the day. Before you get to your desk, you run into your manager, who says she needs you to attend a meeting in the conference room in 30 minutes. You grab a cup of coffee, do a couple of quick things, and stroll down the hall wondering what this could be about. You walk into the conference room, wh... read more.

• April 03, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/30 Cloud, COVID-19, and the Elusive Measure of Agility via F5 If you need help supporting remote work—not every app is SaaS or in a cloud, after all—we're here to help. We have technology and support options to help with availability, remote access, and security. You can also find free resources from our NGINX arm to help you out. https://bit.ly/2QX34OL TrickBot App Bypasses Non-SMS Banking 2FA Though it’s not the first of its kind, this Android malware app is more sophistica... read more.

• April 03, 2020

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

Arguably one of the more tedious tasks when building Exchange servers is configuring the disks and volumes. Even in smaller environments, where there may be only two or three databases, the actual number of volumes gets multiplied by the number of copies in the DAG. Consider an Exchange organization that has three databases with three copies of each database. From a configuration perspective that’s nine volumes that need to be configured. Disk Manager does not provide an efficient way to do this. Ther... read more.

• April 02, 2020

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Infrastructure, Security, Staffing, Support

In the early days of the COVID-19 crisis we saw many very large organizations quickly sending employees to work from home. At Gotham we weren’t surprised. We had helped many of these organizations set up the technologies behind this capability. It cost them nothing in productivity to send their employees home. If your organization found itself challenged in that effort, this article is for you. In the midst of this storm, it’s hard to guess what the “new normal” might look like on t... read more.

• April 02, 2020

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/23 Gotham Technology Group is excited to announce that we have been named to CRN’s Tech Elite 250 list for the TENTH time. Gotham is proud to provide the best service for our customers and we appreciate the recognition from CRN. https://bit.ly/33Gv52n An Update from Gotham on our Coronavirus response https://bit.ly/3dnKJ77 Committing $225 million to global COVID-19 response (Cisco) As part of our commitment, we are allocating $8 million in cash and $210 million in product to the global... read more.

• March 27, 2020

By Gotham, Posted in Infrastructure, Security, Staffing, Support

Gotham Community, As we work together through the unprecedented challenges presented by the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, I wanted to send an update on Gotham’s processes and procedures during the situation. First and foremost, our thoughts go out to all of those who have been personally impacted by COVID-19 and the many people on the front lines in this crisis. We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to first responders, health care workers, truck drivers, and the myriad of other peopl... read more.

• March 23, 2020

By Gotham, Posted in Infrastructure, Security, Staffing, Support

Gotham Community, As we work together through the unprecedented challenges presented by the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, I wanted to send an update on Gotham’s processes and procedures during the situation. First and foremost, our thoughts go out to all of those who have been personally impacted by COVID-19 and the many people on the front lines in this crisis. We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to first responders, health care workers, truck drivers, and the myriad of other peopl... read more.

• March 23, 2020

By Brian Wagner, Posted in Infrastructure, Security, Support

This is a tough time for many of our customers. We’ve been busy helping everyone expand their remote access capabilities to deliver secure apps and desktops to users working from home around the globe. While Citrix has been able to do a good job keeping up with the orders and license fulfillment, and many other vendors have been quick to offer options to help analyze and scale out other aspects of the environment, such as firewalls and VDI infrastructure capacity planning, some vendors haven’t... read more.

• March 20, 2020