Recently, I taught my very first hands-on two-day virtual lab. It seemed a natural outgrowth of my speaking at TechMentor and Live360 conferences; the same company sponsored it. The topic was one I knew in some depth, and the pay was good, so why not? The problems started with the timing and how things change…
Category: Ad-hoc and Random
To MSP or not to MSP?
IT departments are once again looking at outsourcing some or all of their work to Managed Service Providers or Managed Security Service Providers. Aside from the obvious concern for the people working in our organizations that this decision would impact, we also have a responsibility to the company to make the best decision. So what…
Coming off of a slump
I’ve had this blog for several years, and it’s no secret that I have been “inconsistent,” to put it gently. At first, it was Imposter Syndrome—no one wanted to hear what I had to say. I got over that as much as most people do. Then, it was a schedule that crammed my weeks so full…
Cybersecurity Executive Briefing – Why Defense in Depth
This started as an email to a few people but as the word count climbed, I started thinking that there may be other SMB IT folks out there trying to explain cybersecurity to Executive teams. I am NOT a security ‘expert’, but I do keep as up to date as possible. I hope this helps….
2018 – Ready, Set, GO!
We all know the usual platitudes around the new year. We’ve heard them, we’ve said them, and it’s the same every year. “New Year, New Me”, “This is my year!” or the ever-increasing spate of diet and fitness articles books and well-meaning resolutions. It’s our traditional or perhaps even natural tendency to look forward optimistically,…
Update Status
Once again life has bitten me in my best intentions. I promised myself and both my readers that this blog was going to be a regular thing, and in the beginning I did OK. Then life happened as usual. Between work projects and an increasing feeling of pressure to finish my MS Certifications, blogging fell…
And now for something completely different………..
So I had the cool project going for the email account scripting and all of that mentioned in the previous post. But then the inevitable happened. Pulled from that project to work on this more important project, pulled from that second project to work on putting out this fire. Blah blah blah the story of…