There is no Jayden K. Smith
Credit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:43:27 +0000
Here’s why you need to ignore the Jayden K. Smith messages.
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Month: July 2017
What Happens if You Never Change the Oil in Your Car (or Maintain Your Data Center)?
Credit to Author: Joseph Reele| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:35:53 +0000
California has a handy tool to help figure out when a car’s oil needs to be changed. Every 3,000 miles used to be the standard, but today’s vehicles can go as… Read more »
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Read MoreFive reasons you need to join an MSP program… today!
Credit to Author: Ryan Delany| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:52:43 +0000
Managed service providers (MSPs) offer a broad set of services to their customers, including configuring, managing, maintaining, monitoring and securing increasingly complex IT environments. In addition, they also have a business to run, employees to manage, technician utilization to monitor, profits to grow, expenses to keep in check … the list goes on and on….
Schneider Electric and Microsoft: Water efficiency, industrial safety, energy access, and more
Credit to Author: Jean-Pascal Tricoire| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:12:37 +0000
Microsoft’s annual partnership event is inspiring to its 16,000 attendees from 130 countries, showcasing where we’ve been together and, more important, where we’re going. In recent years, Schneider Electric has… Read more »
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Read MoreConsidering the Cloud? Five Questions to Ask
Credit to Author: Aamir Lakhani| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000
The cloud is an increasingly attractive prospect for federal agencies, but many still have unanswered questions about how public cloud security stacks up. With the president’s recent cybersecurity executive order emphasizing the shift to the cloud, agencies will have to move quickly to comply. Below are five questions that federal technology buyers should ask public cloud providers to see if they have what it takes to store and manage federal data securely. 1. Do you allow auditing or pen testing in your environment? Many customers are…
Read MoreKill it! Kill Windows XP now!
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:20:00 -0700
The headline — “HMS Queen Elizabeth is ‘running outdated Windows XP’, raising cyber attack fears” — was startling, but wrong. The United Kingdom’s newest aircraft carrier wasn’t running Windows XP. But some of the contractors that built the warship were.
The U.S. Navy, meanwhile, has been purchasing Windows XP support, at least through this year, so odds are our military still has XP systems running to this very day.
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With Patch Tuesday imminent, make sure you have Automatic Update turned off
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:17:00 -0700
In case you hadn’t noticed, Microsoft has had a tough time with patches this year. From a total lack of patches in February (except for a late IE patch), to yanked and reissued botched patches that followed, to a jumble of problems with Windows and Office patches — including seven admitted bugs in last month’s Office patches — Microsoft has proved itself adept at Jack-in-the-box patching. You don’t have to join the legions of unpaid patch beta testers.
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The human factor: Can employees learn not to make mistakes?
Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:01:10 +0000
Even those who are responsible for arranging security awareness training may not solidly understand what cybersecurity training is, or even why the training is needed.
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