
It’s on you!
I’m often contacted by CEOs or managers after a business experiences a cyber incident that results in real damages. After describing the event, they often ask if they should fire an employee who fell victim to a social engineering attack…

I hate being right, really!
I really hate hearing from customers and prospective customers that we were right and that they wish they had taken our advice to harden their systems and implement tighter security controls before their breach. Feedback from customers…

Please Implement Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365, Please!
Your credentials can be phished, period. If you think you're above being phished, you're wrong. We all have weak moments and the criminals are really good at praying on our whims and emotions. Trust me, you can be phished. …

SOC Audits Drive Improvement
Go West IT just completed our second annual SOC 2, Type 2 audit. This is an expensive and time consuming process and it absolutely makes us better every single year.
SOC stands for Service Organization Controls and a Type 2 audit…

Mitigating Cyber Risk – Top Ten Tasks
Your business is vulnerable to cybercriminals, period. So, workforce security should be top of mind for you and your business.
Workforce security matters
The truth is that no business is fully “secure”. Rather, businesses assume various…

Consumer Grade Router Malware
Go West is providing this security alert as a cautionary measure for users with a consumer grade router or network attached storage device at their home or small business. Due to a recent malware attack known as VPNFilter, the FBI and…

Happy Birthday Go West!
Go West IT is celebrating eight years in business this week. We started with five employees and a handful of great customers. Eight years later our team has grown to 27 team members and we are searching for the 28th. Our customer…

Aggressive Patching is the New Normal
I recall a time when IT professionals adopted the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” approach to patching. To be sure, there was a time when patching firmware and software might have introduced more problems. That time is long gone.…