Major Cloud Providers – Monthly Outage Recap February
MS Azure 2/27/19 USGov Virginia - Service Availability Between 07:38 and 09:50 EST on 27 Feb 2019, a subset of customers may have experienced degraded performance or timeouts while accessing Azure resources. 2/22/19 Virtual Machines (Classic)Between 04:40 UTC and 10:50 UTC on 22 Feb 2019 a subset of customers using Virtual Machines ...
In 2019, Cryptomining Just Might Have an Even Better Year
Feb 28, 2019 by Alex Artamonov | Dark Reading The practice today is so pervasive that cryptojacking scripts are said to be running on an estimated 3% of all sites that users visit. In 2018, bad actors — that is, those perpetrating cyberattacks on businesses and organizations — upped their game across a range of fronts, devising ne...
15 Cloud-Based Services Your Tech Department Should Consider Using
Expert Panel, Forbes Technology Council | Forbes Successful CIOs, CTOs & executives from Forbes Technology Council offer firsthand insights on tech & business. These days, with so many apps and services available for each and every tech device, it may seem like our digital worlds are becoming more and more crowded. An excel...
How To Ensure Managed Service Providers Have Your Back
Adam Stern Forbes Councils Member | Forbes It’s positively Dickensian. For small and midsize businesses aiming to get their bearings within the managed service provider landscape, the past year was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And it remains the most vexing of times, with something venerable — the MSP — now see...
10 Smart Ways To Secure Your Smart Devices Against Hacks
Expert Panel, Forbes technology Council | Forbes Successful CIOs, CTOs & executives from Forbes Technology Council offer firsthand insights on tech & business. “Smart” devices are beginning to dominate the market due to their ease of use, intuitive designs and scale of application. Many homes today are filled with inter...
67 Business Owners Share the Advice They’d Give to Their Younger Selves
.techDomains by Eshan Pancholi Every entrepreneur, newbie or serial, can use valuable entrepreneurial advice when it comes to running their business or learning from other’s mistakes. Towards this, we spoke with 67 business owners, professionals, and entrepreneurs and requested them to share one key piece of entrepreneurial advice to thei...
Zero Trust and Least Privilege: What a Cybersecurity Mindset Looks Like
Adam Stern | CPA Practice Advisor Amid all the current talk of walls, let’s spare a thought for firewalls. In the IT realm, firewalls have been pretty remarkable things – protecting accounting firms and their data through all manner of tech wizardry, as cyberthreats morph and malign actors proliferate. Still, as recent history demonstra...
Major Cloud Providers – Monthly Outage Recap January
MS Azure 1/30/19 Intermittent Network Related Timeouts - West US Between 00:45 and 03:30 UTC on 30 Jan 2019, a subset of customers using multiple Azure Services in West US may have experienced intermittent network related timeouts or high latency. 1/29/19 Network Infrastructure Event Between 21:00 UTC on 29 Jan 2019 and 00:10 UTC on 30 Ja...
12 Bad Tech-Related Habits In The Workplace (And Why They Matter)
Expert Panel, Forbes Technology Council | Forbes Successful CIOs, CTOs & executives from Forbes Technology Council offer firsthand insights on tech & business. Technology plays such a large role in business operations that most employees work with it in some form on a daily basis. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for empl...
Attention, Big Box Shoppers: Your IT Gear May be Trouble
Adam Stern | Small Business Today Magazine Here’s the word from the FBI: hundreds of thousands of firewalls are porous enough to drive a small business into the ground. Sadly, that’s not hype – if anything, it may be an understatement. You know the brands: Linksys, MikroTik, NetGear, TP-Link, QNAP, ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, ZT...
