Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005. This is a buyer’s guide for company laptops and desktops, written for whoever has to sign off on the purchase. Three tiers, and one of them is a trap Most manufacturers – Dell, HP and Lenovo among them – sell PCs […]
Big prime-time sporting events are also prime time for breaches. Here is the mechanism. People want to watch live and do not want to pay for a livestream. Unsavoury types take advantage of that by offering trojan-horse “viewers” – so while the event streams and the user is thoroughly distracted, the computer is quietly being […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving businesses in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Lynnwood and Snohomish County, founded in 2005, offering both fully outsourced managed IT and co-managed support that works alongside an existing internal team. Does a business with internal IT staff still need a third party involved? Sometimes. MSPs generally do one […]
PYMNTS asked a range of people what Google’s AI search results would do to the web. Michael Hasse of Itwerx was one of them, and took a less gloomy line than most. What traditional search actually optimises for “With traditional search functionality, the first few pages of results will be dominated by companies that have […]
CIO.com asked what to expect from US–China AI talks. Michael Hasse of Itwerx – whose clients trade with China – was quoted at length on the part that actually reaches a business. The mutual threat that keeps things stable Part of why cooperation is possible at all is an implicit, mutual cyberattack threat: “All of […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider working with Seattle-area businesses since 2005. This one is written for the chief executive rather than for the IT team. A breach is a public relations and financial event, squarely in a CEO’s wheelhouse, and the CEO is ultimately responsible for the decisions that led […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and one of the most persistent pieces of outdated advice we still hear from new clients is that passwords need to be changed on a fixed schedule regardless of whether anything is wrong. If you have a good password […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and one of the most common gaps we see in a new client relationship is that the business owner has no reliable way to judge whether their existing IT is actually working, short of waiting for something to break. How do […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and one pattern that comes up repeatedly in incident work is how predictably the timing of an attack is chosen. Friday night is party night, for ransomware, at your business. Many breaches are not sudden events. The initial access […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and a question that comes up constantly with growing clients is when it actually makes sense to hire a CTO, a CIO, or a CISO, rather than continuing to rely on outside IT. CTO and CIO are strategic leadership positions, not […]