What a DEAL! If the deal looks too good to be true then it’s not a good deal. You will see many good deals on Cyber Monday BUT which one’s are the good deals and which one’s are the hackers deals. The holiday season continues to start earlier and earlier each year. This is true…
DetailsCIT Presents at Backstop Solutions User Conference The concepts of risk, information management, cybersecurity, 3rd party due diligence, and vendor management are nothing new for the Alternative Investment industry. One of the investment industry’s leading software technology companies, Backstop Solutions, brought these topics center stage during their user conference in Chicago, IL. Backstop is the…
DetailsCIT sent one of it’s employees to a conference that allowed them to act in matter many people “legally” don’t get to experience. The conference was held behind closed doors and no one in the room was allowed to identify themselves . . . attendees included FBI, C-Level, Engineers, Students, Police Force and more. OSINT:…
DetailsTaking a deeper look at the KRACK Wireless Vulnerability Background In May of 2017, security researcher Mathy Vanhoef published a technical paper outlining a potentially catastrophic vulnerability within an encryption protocol used within Wireless Computer Networks. This vulnerability has taken the “protected” out of Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) Wireless Networks. Those networks, both corporate…
DetailsHow the Development of the Atomic Bomb relates to Cybersecurity First, I should point out that this blog isn’t trying to make some analogous connection between the dangers, power, or destructive forces involved with nuclear weapons and cybersecurity. (Although the parallels are there… but we’ll just put that aside for the moment.) What I hope…
DetailsCIT’s IT Services Can Be your Answer to No Downtime Many SMB owners think IT downtime only costs them a few productive hours, but there’s a lot more at stake when your systems go down. Customer satisfaction and loss of brand integrity are just two of the key losses apart from the more evident costs such…
DetailsManaged Service Provider Can Save Time and Money Almost by definition, small business owners and entrepreneurs cringe at the concept of outsourcing. Those who start their own companies like the control and autonomy it provides them. Unfortunately, that preference for control and autonomy may have some bad side-effects when it comes to IT. Small business don’t…
DetailsCIT Plans for Everything with our Managed IT Services Managed Service Providers – or MSPs – are often recommended as a cost effective IT solution for small businesses. For a minimal monthly fee, MSPs provide a reasonably priced solution to the complex technology pains of small businesses. Here’s a look at the various benefits…
DetailsA Business Continuity/Disaster Plan is a Safeguard for your Business During a Disruptive Event The foundation of any successful business continuity/disaster solution is the ability to retrieve data from any point in time from anywhere. When the topic of data recovery and business continuity comes up, you get the feeling that many decision makers…
DetailsLessons Learned from WannaCry / WannaCrypt0r A brief history… CIT has intentionally remained silent on the events of 12 May as we felt there was already enough media hype surrounding the WannaCry attack. This blog is not intended to add to that noise. Rather, its intention is to provide useful lessons learned from…
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