Itwerx is a managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving businesses across Seattle, Bellevue and Snohomish County, founded in 2005. This is a worked security budget with real line items rather than a range, and the prices in it are left at what they were when it was assembled. This budget was first put together as […]
Written on March 9, 2022, in the second and third weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as a surge of hacktivist and nation-state cyber activity broke out on both sides. That specific event is long past. The point below, about how and why breach volume spikes the way it did that month, is not tied […]
Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT and cybersecurity provider serving Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Lynnwood and Snohomish County businesses, founded in 2005, and multi-factor authentication is one of the most commonly recommended and most unevenly implemented controls in that work. Multi-factor authentication is close to a necessity in any current cybersecurity plan, but not all […]
Itwerx has run IT and cybersecurity for Seattle-area businesses since 2005. This is about the gap between holding a cyber policy and being able to get back to work, and why the second does not follow from the first. The comparison that does not hold A major cyber security event, a data loss or a […]
Written in late September and early October 2021, in the two weeks after Microsoft disclosed the Autodiscover vulnerability. The vulnerability itself was patched long ago and is not a current threat. What follows is kept for the lesson at the end, which is not about Autodiscover at all. Itwerx is a service-disabled veteran-owned managed IT […]