April 11, 2024
When Is Employee Retention A Resiliency Issue?
A couple of decades ago, back when I was working as a System Administrator, I had a contracting gig working for a utility company. As utilities go they were fairly small, but they were still a large company with a few thousand employees. There were probably a half-dozen of us there working as System Administrators, maintaining […]
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April 04, 2024
Business Email Compromise: Protection Against The $50 Billion Scam
The rise of business email compromise (BEC) has led the FBI to refer to those online crimes as the $50 billion scam. That’s the amount of financial damages reported during a nine-year period by organizations and individuals who fell victim to such attacks. In a BEC scam, victims receive an email message that appears to come […]
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March 27, 2024
Demystifying Full Stack Observability For Better Performance & Reliability
More than a year ago, Sayers posed the question: Is a full-stack observability solution in your future? Since then, observability has become a hot topic everywhere from team conference rooms to industry summits. Observability platforms can consolidate monitoring tools, proactively identify issues in your environment, improve uptime, lower the total cost of ownership, and increase visibility […]
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March 21, 2024
From AI To Ransomware: Trends Shaping Cybersecurity
Staying on top of cybersecurity trends once was the job of IT and security teams. Now cybersecurity has captured everyone’s attention up to the executive boardroom. Board members want to know: According to the 2024 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey: 80% of survey respondents say they will increase their investment in cybersecurity, making cybersecurity the […]
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March 14, 2024
Can You Plan For “The Big Cell Network Outage”?
AT&T’s cellular network experienced a widespread outage on February 22nd, 2024. AT&T reported that this outage was caused by problems related to a software update, and the outage itself lasted several hours. Not only was AT&T’s network impacted, several other carriers that use AT&T’s network also experienced downtime. I wrote about this at some length a couple of […]
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March 05, 2024
Emerging Trends in Infrastructure & Operations for Healthcare
Healthcare has traditionally been an industry that has taken a conservative approach to adopting new technologies and platforms (i.e. public cloud) due to the unique nature of having to deal with patient care and the security and privacy concerns around handling and storing patient data. In the past decade, healthcare companies have had to “take off […]
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