Sometimes it is exciting to read about your company in news headlines….sometimes it isn’t. It is not exciting to have your company in the news because something bad has happened and it definitely doesn't sit well when your company becomes part of an public, online list because of that something bad.

As you move towards creating a more secure environment at your organization, it’s important to have policies in place that protect your assets from unauthorized access and changes. You should consider implementing something such as a lockout policy that will dim your screen after 10 minutes of inactivity and will require a logon password after 15 minutes.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Now in its 15th year, this annual initiative has been focused on creating a “collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online, while increasing the resiliency of the Nation during cyber-threats”..

FREEPORT, Pa., Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Business today announced that Involta, a hybrid IT, cloud computing and data center services company, is using Comcast Ethernet to facilitate network services for several firms in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Involta's customers leverage Comcast Business high-performance Ethernet services to support their business operations.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Involta, LLC, an industry-leading managed IT, cloud computing and data center services company, was recently named a 2018 Triple Crown Award winner. CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized 46 solution providers in North America this year. These outstanding providers reached the qualifying revenue, growth and technical expertise to be named to three of CRN’s prestigious solution provider lists, earning them the Triple Crown Award.    

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Now in its 15th year, this annual initiative has been focused on creating a “collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online, while increasing the resiliency of the Nation during cyber-threats”..

The connected medical device market is booming, driven by the need to increase efficiency and accountability, lower treatment costs, and improve patient care. There are currently 3.7 million connected medical devices in use today and the number of remotely monitored medical patients will reach 50.2 million over the next four years. Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) based medical devices patients can get out of the hospital more quickly and in some cases even skipping a stay altogether saving organizations money.

How much is your social security number worth to you? On the dark web, it’s being sold for just $1. It only costs a hacker $7/hr to DDoS someone, $150 to buy your healthcare data and $150 to buy mobile malware and push it to your phone. Hacking is cheap and easy, protecting yourself and your business from getting hacked takes some work and cleaning up after you’ve been breached can be so expensive your business may never recover. Companies have spent $121 billion so far in 2018 on cleaning up breaches.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Involta announced today the acquisition of Iowa-based BluPrairie, LLC. This is Involta’s second public cloud business acquisition in less than a year and is part of the company’s focus on driving transformation through innovative planning, execution and management of hybrid IT strategies and services.

By now you should know that you need some sort of disaster recovery plan. If not, read this… and this.  (links back to previous two blogs) But what exactly does “having a disaster recovery plan” mean and what options are available for your business? Thanks to ever-improving technology, cloud computing has created an opportunity for a new kind of DR: Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). DRaaS is the flexible, scalable, affordable kind of DR businesses have been waiting for.