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Security Response & Recommendations – CISA “Shields Up” Advisory
As a result of international tensions that have arisen surrounding the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the...
FCC Order 19-72A1 to Replace Copper Telephone Lines
Do you still have copper-based telecommunication services? Most organizations don’t know if they do or don't, so why does it matter? On August 2, 2019, the FCC officially...
E911 FCC Compliance Requirements
In August 2019, the FCC adopted rules implementing two federal laws that strengthen emergency calling: Kari’s Law and Section 506 of RAY BAUM’S Act. Compliance dates for these...
The Most Common Single Point of Failure in a Data Center
After over twenty years of working with customers in their data centers, I’ve seen virtually every piece of critical hardware be configured in some sort of redundant fashion to...
Components of a Valuable IT Workshop
Facilitated workshops are typically a powerful approach to solving problems, but not necessarily the end-all solution itself which can be broad and complex. Getting everyone in...
The Downside to Reliability
So many things in our life are reliable, that it can be very easy to take their presence and continued service for granted. I was starkly reminded of this a few weeks ago when,...
FedRAMP Container Security
On March 16, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) released supplemental requirements for vulnerability scanning of containers. FedRAMP provides a...
Understanding Kubernetes Architecture
In my previous blog posts, I've been talking about containers themselves quite a bit and touched on orchestration (how containers are managed). Let’s now dive a bit into...
Comparing VMs and Containers
In my last post, we described Virtual Machines (VM’s) and containers using real-world analogies of houses and apartments. In this post, we’ll continue to reference those...
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