Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and offers AI integration as one of its services, including deploying AI without client data leaving the building. The story everyone told, and the one that mattered In 2024, a widely used workplace messaging platform drew criticism over how its AI […]
With all the talk of general AI taking over the world, a short rant. Language models will never become smart. In the same way that the book you read most recently will never itself become smart. They are a very good way to deal with large amounts of data and synthesise an output from it. […]
Here is a one-year look-back on the ever-changing cyber-security landscape broken out by type of attack and industry. The solid yellow bars are industries which are consistently under heavy attack year over year. The yellow totals are “new” industries, (i.e. whose score has risen to 3 or above in the last year). Please note […]
We’ve all heard the stories about cyber criminals dumping thumb drives loaded with malicious code in employee parking lots waiting for one to be picked up and plugged into a work computer – it’s gotten to the point where it’s a TV show trope! And yes, of course, one certainly hopes your staff would be […]
Why Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Is Just the Beginning It is true that implementing MFA in any form is much better than not having it, just like having better locks at your place of business, but there is a widely-touted statistic that is extremely mis-leading. A few years ago Microsoft released a paper indicating that 99% […]
US News asked how to stop home security cameras being hacked. Michael Hasse of Itwerx gave them an answer short on reassurance. “Unless you pay a reputable security company … there are no easy or inexpensive solutions.” He also warned against cameras running foreign software, which are most likely “insecure by design”. The most effective […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and the question of who should actually own security responsibility inside a growing company comes up in almost every engagement past a certain size. The job description for a good CISO is often, unofficially, a blend of two very […]
Techopedia asked whether SIEM platforms – often sold as the Swiss army knife of security – actually do the job. Michael Hasse of Itwerx spoke to them about what these systems really cost to run. The cost is time and attention, not just licensing The point put to Techopedia was about the resources an organisation […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and one of the more sensitive situations we get called in for is helping a client safely remove someone who holds privileged access and might not take the news well. If you are the CEO, this could be a CIO or […]
CSO Online asked practitioners what hiring executives should actually look for in a security leader. Michael Hasse of Itwerx was one of them, on a problem he describes as close to unsolvable. The over-reliance on certificates The pattern is companies leaning on certifications at the cost of deep field experience. “This leads to cybersecurity ‘experts’ […]