Earlier this year, I arrived at the office on a Monday morning to a ringing telephone. One of my longtime customers was on the line, frantic about a security issue. When he arrived at work that morning, he discovered that the Microsoft Exchange server at his midsized company was offline and infected with ransomware. Further…

In my many years of working with monitoring systems, I have had the opportunity to complete a deep dive into Prognosis from Integrated Research (IR). As many people know, selecting a monitoring solution and strategy for your collaboration environment is a challenge, especially if you are tasked with fitting into a framework that monitors your…

I heard a question the other day that caught me off guard. “Why do you guys even sell IPS (Intrusion Prevention Systems), is there even value in that anymore? Shouldn’t you just recommend patching vulnerable systems?”