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Alvaka Announces Partnership With Ingram Micro to Bring U.S. Channel Partners Ransomware Remediation Solutions
Alvaka has teamed up with Ingram Micro to offer prioritized access to our trusted ransomware remediation and recovery services to Ingram’s U.S. channel partners and their customers.
Ransomware Attacks Saw Huge Increase in March 2023
According to NCC Group's Global Threat Intelligence Team, ransomware attacks have seen a significant increase this year. In March 2023, ransomware attacks increased by over 90% compared to February and over 60% compared to March 2022. NCC Group stated that [...]
Microsoft Monitoring Over 100 Ransomware Threat Actors
Microsoft recently disclosed that they are monitoring over 100 different threat actors utilizing 50 unique ransomware families to attack businesses and organizations across the world. These attacks have been increasing in frequency, severity, and sophistication. The threat actors behind [...]
Beazley’s $45 Million Cybersecurity Bond: A Solution for First-Party & Third-Party Cyber Losses
Beazley, a leading specialist insurer, has recently launched a catastrophe bond for cybersecurity and ransomware breaches. This $45 million bond is designed to provide financial protection for organizations that suffer a significant cyber-attack resulting in a loss of $300 [...]
Emergency Help for Fortinet Ransomware & Cyber Breach Recovery
FortiOS Ransomware and Cyber Breach Vulnerabilities are Back! Fortinet is again the target of hackers, ransomware hackers specifically. Fortinet’s big problem is a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS. We have seen that it is already leading to breached [...]
Alvaka is Named a 2022 Top Workplace for 2nd Year in a Row
Orange County Register Names Alvaka a Winner of the Orange County Top Workplaces 2022 Award Irvine, California December 09, 2022 - For the second consecutive year, Alvaka is named a 2022 Top Workplace, an honor awarded by The Orange [...]
ALVAKA – Celebrating 40 Years!
After 40 years in business, Alvaka Networks is now simply Alvaka! As a recognized market leader and pioneering IT managed services provider, our success has centered on our ability to innovate new ideas and continue our investment in the [...]
You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.
Smoke testing is a type of software testing performed by Alvaka after a software patching sequence to ensure that the system is working correctly and to identify any misconfigurations or conflicts within the patched system.
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.
