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Delta Airlines Believes their Epic Technology Failure is like Painting a Bridge

by Mike Foster | Aug 18, 2016 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity, Data Loss Prevention, Disaster Recovery, IT Best Practices, Preventative IT Mainenance

On August 8, Delta had to cancel 2,000 flights due to a major technology malfunction. It could have been prevented. Delta reports that the glitch was triggered by a 22 year old power control system device that failed in their datacenter. Back in June, Delta’s CIO...

Ransomware Statistics and Expect Hacking on the News

by Mike Foster | Aug 5, 2016 | Alerts, Application Whitelisting, Best Practices, DEF CON, Ransomware

In 2015 alone, companies had to pay 325 Million in ransom to recover their data. There were 407,000 attempted ransomware attacks. These statistics confirm how organizations just don’t understand what to do to protect their company. Please spread the word… The most...

Pain Free or Free Pain?

by Mike Foster | Jul 25, 2016 | Best Practices, Cyber Security, IT Best Practices, Upgrade, Windows 10

On July 29, Microsoft’s Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends. Many people are asking: Should you upgrade? If you plan to upgrade existing computers to Windows 10 anyway, and have tested it in your network, this may be the right time. Otherwise, you may join other...

Help Your Young Ones Learn to Program

by Mike Foster | Jul 6, 2016 | Children, Cybersecurity, Learn to Program, Scratch

Mitch Resnick made a TED Talk entitled “Let’s teach kids to code.” He says that knowing how to code is an essential part of literacy. MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, created a programming language for kids called Scratch. I swore I would keep my kids...
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