How Government Institutions Can Manage Cyber Insurance Increases

How Government Institutions Can Manage Cyber Insurance Increases Growing trends and recent news have shocked the cyber insurance system. With cost and coverage changes, government institutions are simply seeking to attain reasonably affordable cyber insurance. This blog summarizes a spirited debate amongst subject matter experts on the topic in January 2023. Contributors include a former .gov […]

Use Classification Rules (Instead of Proxy Sets) on AudioCodes SBCs

Use Classification Rules (Instead of Proxy Sets) on AudioCodes SBCs Introduction Admittedly, this title is misleading, but it did get you to look at this article! This is part of our series on securing AudioCodes SBCs based on eGroup | Enabling Technologies’ security mantra of “Trust No One, Harden Everything” and guidance provided by AudioCodes. […]

Using Regular Expressions to Build a Microsoft Purview Custom Sensitive Information Type

Using Regular Expressions to Build a Microsoft Purview Custom Sensitive Information Type Introduction A colleague of mine needed to create a Microsoft Purview custom Sensitive Information Type (SIT) for a client– The client wanted to use this SIT as part of their implementation of Microsoft Purview. The client needed the SIT to match on occurrences […]

G-Suite Licensing No Longer Free For Students

G-Suite Licensing No Longer Free For Students Google has changed their strategy and is no longer providing Gmail and other apps for “free” to educational institutions. Their services are now moving to a recurring cost plan. In recent months, Google has changed their costing model for G-Suite (rebranded as Google Workspace). This service is no […]

The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent!

The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent! In recent posts, I have written about how the cloud benefitted my former organizations (in general and financially).  The most important asset I had as an IT leader, though, was our people.  Keeping them happy was paramount, and especially so in today’s technology job market.  Here, […]

eGroup + Zerto + Azure = IT Resilience

In last Friday’s post, I discussed the concept that “Things that have never happened before, happen every day” and the need for a posture of resilience to remain operationally ready for anything. Storage industry veteran Paul Zeiter, currently president at Zerto, said recently that “One of the big challenges facing companies today is the need to […]

Get Your Company in Tip-Top Shape with IT Consulting

Get Your Company in Tip-Top Shape with IT Consulting IT consulting is a job sector that is experiencing rapid growth. Business owners everywhere are realizing their growing reliability on IT in running their business efficiently. But what exactly does an IT consultant do? IT consultants focus on giving expert advice and professional recommendations so that […]