If you run a business—or manage IT for one—you are undoubtedly familiar with the ever-lengthening lead times for critical networking equipment like firewalls, routers, switches, and Wireless Access Points. And yes, you want to know when the shortage will end.
As the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to spread, the German government’s cyber authority, BSI, has issued a warning to citizens and governments, advising them to stop using antivirus products produced by Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company owned by Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian national. Separately, here in the US, the FCC took the significant step of declaring Kaspersky a national security threat. Kaspersky is the first cybersecurity firm to be labeled as such.
Web Developers are so used to it that don’t even think about it anymore: Testing a web site before launching it to the public requires “tricking” your browser into retrieving a page from a staging or development server instead of your live web server.
Why You Need Cyber Liability Insurance
What is cyber liability insurance? We’re glad you asked! Admittedly not the most entertaining of topics, cyber liability insurance is very, very important to your business.
PHP5 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS LAMP Stack
Ubuntu Linux 20.04 comes with PHP 7.4. Some web site code written in the PHP 5 (or earlier) era is not compatible with that version of the hypertext preprocessor and will break under a new OS build with all up-to-date binaries.
ATTENTION START-UPS: DO YOU NEED HIPSTER REPLACEMENT SURGERY?
If your business’ digital infrastructure is run by “a guy you know,” you might be in trouble. Even if that guy is your best friend from kindergarten, a genius in his own right, and doesn’t even wear a fedora or ride a skateboard to the office.
“Statistics allow you to do exactly the wrong thing, but with 99 percent confidence.” Not sure if that’s how the saying goes, but perhaps it should.
OpenVPN has changed the game for secure access to corporate networks. It doesn’t suffer from the many performance, security, and networking drawbacks of Layer Two Tunneling and older Point To Point Tunneling protocols.
The push-pull dynamic between strong data security procedures and the poor souls known as end-users (and we’re all end-users, even IT service companies), has tended to result in the end-user bearing the brunt of it.
The heart of any computer is its central processing unit (CPU). There’s a fair amount of mystery surrounding this part which does its work hidden away from our eyes.