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Continuation vs. Adaptation: A New Approach to Achieve your Purpose

Most businesses have a business continuity plan (BCP). These plans range from well documented and routinely tested, to rough ideas about how a business will cope with unforeseen circumstances. Every single business in America has now grappled…

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Go West IT’s 10 Year Anniversary

Go West IT 10 year anniversary

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Remote Workforce Security – Practical Guidance for Rapid Change

Businesses are rapidly shifting to work from home strategies in response to the current COVID-19 situation. Many are already adept at working from home and have strategies in place to protect networks, endpoints, and systems. They have proven…

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VPN Service ≠ Invisibility Cloak

Third party VPN services do not secure your data. They may provide an additional brick in your security bunker but they are not the invisibility cloak they claim to be and in some cases they may actually do more harm than good. For starters,…

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Follow FBI Guidance re: Business Cybersecurity

Today the FBI issued a renewed Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning to businesses regarding cyber crime, and more specifically ransomware risk. If you are not taking action, you are going backward. All businesses should be regularly…

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Microsoft is actively fighting cybercrime for the greater good.

My tour of the @Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC) this week was the highlight of my visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. I was one of approximately 150 Microsoft partners invited to attend a small & medium sized…

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Time’s Almost Up for Windows 7 & Server 2008!

Do you remember when Windows XP reached the end of its support lifecycle? We sure do, and it’s about to happen again with Windows 7 and Server 2008. Microsoft supports their operating systems for a minimum of 10 years following public release,…

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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…

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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…

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Continuation vs. Adaptation: A New Approach to Achieve your Purpose

Go West IT’s 10 Year Anniversary

Remote Workforce Security – Practical Guidance for Rapid Change

VPN Service ≠ Invisibility Cloak

Follow FBI Guidance re: Business Cybersecurity

Microsoft is actively fighting cybercrime for the greater good.

Time’s Almost Up for Windows 7 & Server 2008!

It’s on you!

I hate being right, really!

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