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Building a Solid Security Foundation to Support the NIST Framework

02/07/18 Henceforth, the agencies are expected to follow a five-step process: Identify Protect Detect Respond Recover This creates near-term challenges with potentially long-term b…

Windows Workstation Logs – Increasing Visibility

02/07/18 Anyone who has looked at the number of event IDs assigned to Windows events has probably felt overwhelmed. In the last blog, we looked at some best practices events that a…

Network Audits: What You Need to Know

02/07/18 If you work in an organization that is publicly traded, or you are subject to other government regulations, you will be required to perform a periodic network audit. Even …

Path Monitoring In A World Of Overlays

02/07/18 I remember the simpler days. Back when our infrastructure all lived in one place, usually just in one room, and path monitoring could be as simple as walking in to see if …

Putting on your X-Ray Goggles to Visualize the Business Services Spectrum

02/07/18 I love watching those modern movies where IT works magically. In these movies, any average Joe with access to a computer or terminal can instantly access anything with sea…

Before Choosing a Technical Disaster Recovery Solution

02/07/18 Getting right into the technical nitty-gritty of the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan is probably my favorite part of the whole process. I mean, as an IT professional this is o…

Self-Service Portal: Three Ways to Increase Employee Adoption

02/06/18 The key to portal adoption is two-fold. First, employees need to understand the benefits to them. It shouldn’t be any sort of inconvenience. They surely don’t want to add …

Everyone Should Get Behind Modernizing Federal IT Networks

02/06/18 Modernizing legacy systems is back on the front burner. Here’s an interesting article from my colleague, Joe Kim, in which he reminds us not to forget about the network. T…

Modern ITSM Practices: The Customizable Service Catalog

02/01/18 Simply put, the service catalog is like a restaurant menu for requesters. The process of submitting a service request should be easy for users, just like customers at a re…

Extending IT Experience

01/31/18 Working in IT? Feeling lost given everything that’s going on in the industry? Are you confused about what to focus on and how to best apply your knowledge? If you can rela…

Out Of Office: Setting Expectations for Office 365

01/31/18 For a lot of organizations, moving to Office 365 might be one of the first, or possibly biggest, migrations to a public cloud. There can be a lot of stress and work that g…

An A-B-C Approach to Improving Security Compliance

01/30/18 Security is always an important topic with our government customers. Here’s an applicable article from my colleague, Joe Kim, in which he offers some tips on compliance. E…