Itwerx has looked after server rooms for businesses across Seattle, Bellevue and Snohomish County since 2005. This is about getting one through a hot spell intact without a datacenter budget behind it. Why one AC unit is not enough Summer is the highest-risk season for HVAC failure, and most small and mid-sized businesses do not […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT provider serving businesses across Seattle, Bellevue and Snohomish County. Since 2005 clients have asked us when equipment genuinely needs replacing, and this is the case for holding on to it longer. The standard schedule was built for hardware that wore out The usual industry guideline calls for replacing […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005. This is about attacks aimed at the tools a business trusts to run on their own. Malware has always chased the value, not the target Malware’s history is a series of moves toward wherever the value actually sits. It […]
Itwerx is a managed IT and cybersecurity provider working with businesses in Seattle, Bellevue and Snohomish County since 2005. This traces how methods once reserved for state-level attackers reached ordinary criminals, and what that means for a smaller company. From eleven years to about an hour The first email worm was the Morris worm, in […]
If your data is sensitive, the advice is to host the model internally rather than send it to a public service. Reasonable enough. But what does that actually entail, and how big is too big? First, what the thing actually is The simplest analogy for a large language model is a sieve. A better one […]
There are already proof-of-concept email worms that leverage AI email assistants. That is not the tip of the iceberg. That is a small penguin perched on top of it. Why this is different from previous security problems Large language models combine all of the security weaknesses of computers with all of the security weaknesses of […]
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 part of that work is helping clients evaluate AI tools before sensitive data goes anywhere near them. The limitation is not a bug. It is the design. Ask why AI vendors […]
Written in February 2024, reporting on hands-on testing of AI tools available that month. This is not a claim about today’s tools, which are a different generation of products with different mitigations. Treat the finding below as a snapshot of that testing, not a standing verdict on the category. Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005. This looks at what is getting through the door, rather than at the strain names in the headlines. Ransomware attacks against well-known targets are in the news often enough that awareness of the risk is effectively universal, and yet […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle-area businesses, founded in 2005, and phishing training is one of the most commonly purchased, and most commonly misapplied, security controls its clients ask about. A great deal of the time and money spent on phishing training is wasted effort, and it often creates […]