Many VARs are looking to profit from health care-related cloud storage services. But with profit comes responsibility. Whether you build your own or offer another’s service, the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for [...]
Today I am getting many congratulations on LinkedIn from friends. It is 32 years ago I got started in what we today call IT. Here is what I wrote back to them: Thanks everyone. It has been and continues to [...]
The current areas being targeted are in Orange County, Los Angeles County and Riverside County. I am sure other areas in the country are targeted as well.One of our clients just received a request from Microsoft for what is called [...]
In my time as a security consultant and managed services provider, I've seen some questionable behavior and attitudes. Prime among them is the common belief in the business community that indemnity offered by cyber insurance and contracts replaces prudent actions [...]
The best source of information covering this requirement comes from NIST, the National Institute for Standards and Technology. They have a set of documents that are the standards for many requirements. There is nothing specific in the NIST guidelines about the end of life for Windows XP, however, the need to provide Flaw Remediation is clear and that is what the X, Office 2003 and Exchange 2003 support requirements fall under.
For example, NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-531 requires the SI-2, Flaw Remediation security control, which includes installing...
Here is a good mrc Cup of Joe Blog about time wasting tasks in IT. I was asked to submit a suggestion for the article. It is a quick read on six things you can do to stop wasting time [...]
We are into the final preparations for Alvaka Networks third
annual track day. The date is getting
close on Friday November 8th, 2013.
This is a client appreciation day. We invite clients, prospects and numerous associated
businesses out to Auto Club Speedway for a private IT expo, lunch, fast driving
on the track and other fun activities.
Here is a really helpful free tool on the Internet to “grade” your website. I first heard about it from my friend David Dadian the CEO at Powersolutions.com. It is called HubSpot and you can reach it at http://marketing.grader.com/ I took [...]
Last week President Obama issued another executive order regarding cyber security. He followed up in his State of the Union speech by talking about foreign actors trying to sabotage our critical national infrastructure and private companies. The use of executive [...]
IBM has long had one of the best research and development teams in computing. The IBM Fellows are highly regarded as some of the best and brightest prognosticators in the profession. In IBM’s most recent predictions they are suggesting that [...]
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