Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving businesses in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Lynnwood and Snohomish County, founded in 2005, and one measure of how it approaches security tooling is which vendors keep earning a place in the stack. A press citation, and a takeaway worth keeping Techopedia ran a feature on […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005. This is when to pay for the extended warranty on business equipment and when to decline it. The counterintuitive part: warranties got cheaper as hardware got better It sounds backwards, but as hardware reliability has improved, warranty pricing has generally gotten […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005. This is about completing an insurer’s control questionnaire truthfully when you are not certain of the answers. Most cyber insurance applications come with a multi-page questionnaire asking detailed questions about controls a business may not fully understand, let alone […]
Techopedia asked whether security teams should replace managed detection and response with AI. Michael Hasse of Itwerx was one of the consultants they put the question to. It is not a new idea The first point made to Techopedia was that swapping MDR for AI is not a novel proposal, and that the framing of […]
Itwerx is a managed IT provider serving businesses in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett and Lynnwood, and office moves have been part of the work since 2005. This is what to test in a new space before you commit to it. A continuity test is not enough Moving into a space with existing network cabling means inheriting […]
Ever think about buying a business? Ever wonder what is hidden behind the scenes, waiting to bite you down the road? We review M&A deals occasionally. A recent small one was the worst we had seen in a while, and it makes a good example of a bad deal that looks like a good one […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving businesses in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Lynnwood and Snohomish County, founded in 2005, and works with clients who run development teams as well as individual developers who need the same discipline applied to their own accounts. The real number No published report supports the two-thirds […]
Itwerx is a managed IT provider working with businesses in Seattle, Everett and Lynnwood, and specifying servers has been part of the job since 2005. This is a buyer’s guide to the choices that matter and the ones that do not. Skip SOHO – it is not really a server Server manufacturers – Dell Technologies, […]
AI hallucinations are great. No, really. They are the mechanism that lets these systems do anything useful at all. In a real sense, everything that comes out of a language model is a hallucination. The only question worth asking is whether it is a good one. Good ones and bad ones Good hallucinations include new […]
PYMNTS asked what AI would actually change about using a smartphone. Michael Hasse of Itwerx gave them the practical version rather than the visionary one. The near-term, unglamorous wins “Better speech recognition for assistants like Siri, higher quality translation services, and improved environmental awareness for automation, such as adjusting ring volume based on background noise […]