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Credit to Author: Dave Taylor| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:31:00 -0800

Enterprises invest a lot of time, effort and money in keeping their systems secure. The most security-conscious might have a security operations center. They of course use firewalls and antivirus tools. They probably spend a lot of time monitoring their networks, looking for telltale anomalies that could indicate a breach. What with IDS, SIEM and NGFWs, they deploy a veritable alphabet of defenses.

But how many have given much thought to one of the cornerstones of their digital operations: the operating systems deployed on the workforce’s PCs? Was security even a factor when the desktop OS was selected?

This raises a question that every IT person should be able to answer: Which operating system is the most secure for general deployment?

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February 5, 2018 admin

Apple's iOS push could change healthcare data sharing, still won't kill the fax

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:55:00 -0800

Apple’s Health Records feature in the upcoming iOS 11.3 rollout may be the most high-profile attempt at sharing healthcare data between caregiver and patient, but it won’t succeed without industry’s cooperation.

What is new is the mass market Apple commands with its iPhone and iPad and the company’s efforts to take advantage of new industry standards and collaborative alliances for aggregating and sharing patient data from disparate healthcare systems.

Even with all the electrification of healthcare data and advances in networks for sharing that data, however, one industry stalwart is unlikely to be replaced: the fax.

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February 5, 2018 admin

Hold your breath, avoid the snake oil, and get Windows updated

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:50:00 -0800

January 2018 was a month that will go down in patching infamy. Looking back on my notes, we had patches released, yanked, re-released and/or re-re-released on 15 different days in January. Untold thousands of machines were bricked by Microsoft patches. Millions of hours were lost chasing down bad patches and bad advice.

Although there were a couple of real bugs fixed in the January patches — the Equation Editor vulnerability being suspect #1 — most of the angst was completely superfluous. The Meltdown/Spectre patches at the heart of the drama attacked a problem that wasn’t — and isn’t — there. We still have no known Meltdown or Spectre exploits in the wild. None.

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February 5, 2018 admin

Apple provides superior cybersecurity protection

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 07:55:00 -0800

Apple has kept CEO Tim Cook’s enterprise security promise, and in doing so staked space in one of the few growing sectors of the insurance market, revealing a new enterprise-focused cybersecurity offering bought to market with Cisco, Aon and Allianz.

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February 2, 2018 admin

Get 3 Years of NordVPN Service for Just $2.75 Per Month

Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 07:43:00 -0800

NordVPN promises a private and fast path through the public internet, with no logs and unmetered access for 6 simultaneous devices. They are currently running a promotion, but you’ll have to use this link to find it. Its typical price has been discounted to $99 for 3 years of service. That’s a good deal at just $2.75 per month. See the $2.75/month NordVPN holiday deal here.

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January 31, 2018 admin

Why Google partnered with MobileIron – and what they plan to offer

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:18:00 -0800

Google Cloud and MobileIron have announced a partnership to provide a secure enterprise applications and services portal.

Why Google Cloud and MobileIron? Because Google wants to use its Orbitera commerce platform, which enables the buying and selling of software and services in the cloud – and it needs an OS- and hardware-agnostic distribution and security partner.

MobileIron will not only help Google distribute the apps through its enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform, but its software can also provide analytics that show which apps and services are the most popular, and with whom.

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January 31, 2018 admin

Perfect end to a perfect month: Yet another Win10 1709 cumulative update, KB 4058258

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:46:00 -0800

Microsoft told us three weeks ago that Win10 Fall Creators Update, version 1709, was ready for enterprise deployment. Since then, we’ve seen the early January patch yanked because it tanked AMD machines. Then, after the first patch was reinstated, we got two more cumulative updates. In the past three weeks.

I guess that’s what Microsoft now means by “Current Branch for Business” and/or “Semi-Annual Channel.”

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January 30, 2018 admin

Tech Talk: The beginning of the end of the password in 2018

Hackers can crack them, and users are careless with them. Passwords have long been problematic, but they are getting renewed attention after a series of major breaches. Our panelists look at the coming technology to help with password security.