Often we all don’t get true clarity on the importance of certain issues until you are living them.  That is why for instance Dutchess County BOCES attempts to do a yearly, live, full DR test.  It is amazing what you find out when you actually force yourself to go production on plan B.  Documentation is […]

Keeping up with my theme on DNS related posts, this week I will again reprise a post from over a year ago on the importance of implementing proper control of DNS as part of your malware protection program.   It remains as valuable part of your overall all network and security management policies.

In the February Tech Talk Webinar entitled,  “SCCM Troubleshooting Part II” Scott introduced the new  Support Center for client troubleshooting which became available in 1810.  It provides real-time log viewing, or capturing the state of a Configuration Manager client computer for later analysis.

The US-CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) recently gave a presentation on what China has been doing to hack anything they can hack with the goal of stealing intellectual property, money and personally identifiable information. While most public sector schools and government agencies are generally not vast repositories of intellectual property, they do manage and transfer […]

We constantly harp on all of you segregating third-party vendor equipment on to vendor VLANs.   The purpose of that is to keep third-party vendor equipment completely away from your internal network.  Ideally, we don’t want these vendors to see, touch, or ask your internal network anything.

Last month on January 22nd the US Dept of Homeland Security took the unusual step of issuing Emergency Directive 19-01 to all Federal Agencies.   The directive issued steps that had to be taken by those agencies to mitigate potential DNS infrastructure tampering.

We continue our discussion of your closets and dumb stuff that can really hurt you.  In part III we look at “plan b” and “plan c” for what to do if the power goes out for both the physical and virtual servers as well as your MDFs. If you put a physical server in any […]

Right about now most of us are getting fairly comfortable with our current 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless deployments.   But as we all know technology, and particularly wireless technology, never stands still.   So, Wi-Fi as we know it is about to get another major update.

The February Tech Talk Webinar is SCCM Troubleshooting Part II.  Scott will introduce the new  Support Center for client troubleshooting which became available in 1810.  It provides real-time log viewing, or capturing the state of a Configuration Manager client computer for later analysis.

In part I we were talking about UPSes.  In part II we are going to continue our MDF/IDF UPS theme. I want you to physically audit the power situation in your MDF and IDF closets.   Specifically, I want you to look for the following: UPS load.