Resources

We have been discussing a whole lot of security issues over this past year.  Many of you are already moving forward to address many of our recommendations.   However, some of you are paralyzed in figuring out how to absorb some of the new costs for the new security technologies that your district now absolutely requires […]

While we can never say, all is well in the world of network security, this week I feel I can write to you about something other than a US-CERT alert. This week’s topic – an interesting Cisco Talos blog post on the top 5 recommendations the Cisco Incident Response Team, looking back over the past […]

As I write this, Netflix is bringing back a new version of “Lost in Space”.  Hopefully, it is better than the movie and truer to the original series.  Bob has been on a roll with US-Cert announcements (danger, danger Will Robinson) about threats the last few weeks.

Well, it’s time for another Tech Tidbit from me and right on cue another alert from the National Cyber Awareness system run by the good people at the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has come in that I felt really needed to be highlighted for all of you.

The other day I was sitting in one of our Tech Talk presentations and Bob discussed the importance of Internet of Things (IoT) security.  That made me think of the very real incident that happened in 2017 where a University’s soda machines, light bulbs, and other IoT devices created a denial of service (DoS) attack […]

Many of you may be on the US-Cert alert e-mail list, but I suspect many of you are not.   Since most all of you have Internet-facing devices, or even more likely cloud-based applications (Office 365 / Google Apps, at least), I wanted to make certain that all of our clients “heard” the message contained in […]

We spend huge amounts of time thinking about server and workstation patches, firewall and switch patches and software patches, but when was the last time you thought about the security of your printers? More and more schools are moving away from small classroom printers and towards more sophisticated, multi-function, copier, scanner, printers.

 One of the most confusing things we all encounter is Microsoft software licensing.   You hear one explanation and then another.  We are left mystified – hoping that we did it right and the school district is legal. On Wednesday, April 25th at 10:00 am Microsoft will be providing a Microsoft Licensing specialist in a webinar […]

CSI is excited to announce our third hands-on learning event entitled “Introducing Microsoft Teams for Next Generation Classroom Teaching and Learning” in our classroom in partnership with Microsoft on Tuesday, April 17th from 9 am until 1 pm. Microsoft Teams is the digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place.

CSI is pleased to announce that on Thursday, May 3rd from 8:30-4pm we will be hosting HPE Nimble in an all-day event.  In the morning Nimble will overview their advanced storage solutions: