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Update from Alvaka Networks on COVID-19 Readiness
Alvaka President/CEO, Oli Thordarson, addresses Alvaka’s response and readiness to the Covid-19 Pandemic and how Alvaka is supporting their clients’ response efforts with consistent and quality service.
- Ransomware an Increasing Threat to Business Victims - Published in Orange County Business Journal by Kevin Costelloe on Monday, July 13, 2020. Alvaka COO and CISO, Kevin McDonald, is interviewed by Kevin Costelloe about the ever-increasing threat of… Read full article ...
- Ransomware: The Largest Threat Facing Businesses and Individuals - Kevin McDonald, COO, and CISO at Alvaka Networks gives insight to the largest threat that individuals and businesses face in today’s cyberspace. That threat is ransomware. The number of ransomware… Read full article ...
- New York Aims to Prevent Cities from Paying Ransomware Demands - If Senator Boyle and cosponsors—Senator George M. Borrello of the 57th Senate District and Senator Sue Serino of the 41st Senate District—get their way, municipalities in New York will be… Read full article ...
- Update from Alvaka Networks on COVID-19 Readiness - In the below video, Alvaka CEO Oli Thordarson, discusses Alvaka's response and readiness to the Covid-19 Pandemic and how we are supporting our clients' response efforts with consistent and quality… Read full article ...
- Two Businesses Attacked by Ransomware Recover With Help From Alvaka Networks - A few months back, two businesses contacted us requiring immediate assistance to help combat their ransomware incident. The structure of these businesses were opposites of each other, one had several… Read full article ...
- Eliminating silos, Alvaka Networks Teams with CloudAccess - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 Irvine, CA.– Alvaka Networks—a network management and security service provider with over three decades supporting clients—has teamed with CloudAccess to provide a unique set… Read full article ...
- Finding an MSP to Protect Yourself from Outsourcing IT Risks - Article originally posted on TechTarget. Alvaka's COO and CISO, Kevin McDonald, discusses the type of questions you should ask MSPs to ensure they have the correct security systems in place… Read full article ...
- Alvaka Networks to Sponsor ISACA’s North America CACS 2019 Conference - Schaumburg, IL, USA (29 April 2019)—Alvaka Networks will sponsor ISACA’s North America CACS Conference for information systems audit, assurance, control, governance and security professionals, taking place 13-15 May 2019 in… Read full article ...
- Cybersecurity industry will have 3.5 million unfilled jobs by 2021 - In the following article, Alvaka's COO & CISO, Kevin McDonald, provides insight on the rise in cybercrime and how it is increasing the demand for cybersecurity workers. Article written by… Read full article ...
- Alvaka Networks is becoming a specialist as it looks to address larger enterprises - Dave Cunningham, Alvaka's Business Technology Officer, was recently interviewed by Channel Partner Insight regarding Alvaka's narrowing focus on it's Patch Management as a Service offering. Below is an excerpt from… Read full article ...
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Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.