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01 Oct

Windows 10: Nothing Like a Last-Minute Upgrade

Get the hardware needed to upgrade to Windows 10 before it’s too late.

The retirement of Windows 7 is going full bore this January 2020. Microsoft has advised multiple times to upgrade to Windows 10. Here at Triton, we have advised clients multiple times to go to Windows 10 as well, and some of you have taken us up and have begun the migration process, and we applaud you for that.

23 Sep

Stop Using Internet Explorer Immediately

by Trave Harmon

in Data Security, Managed IT

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The Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2019-1367) is a critical zero-day bug.

I mean now, right now, uninstall it – every version of Internet Explorer needs to be removed. On Monday, September 23, Microsoft made an announcement and immediately deployed out-of-band updates for Internet Explorer. This update prevents a script from executing without any interaction by the user. A simple visit to a website can compromise your computer.

28 Jun

It’s War: How MSPs are Being Targeted

by Trave Harmon

in Data Security, Managed IT

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It’s been some time since I made a post, but it needs to be made.

There is a war going on. Let me backtrack a bit. At Triton Technologies, we are the gatekeepers, the guardians at the gate, the Heimdall to the kingdoms of our clients. We control all the keys, passwords, access, controls, etc. We are entrusted to protect and defend our client’s networks as their managed service provider (MSP) under contract. Someone has taken notice.

12 Oct

Network Firewall Security: Stop Port Forwarding

by Trave Harmon

in Managed IT

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The Critical Risks of Port Forwarding in Network Security As a leader in managed IT solutions, Triton Technologies emphasizes the grave dangers of port forwarding within network security frameworks. Our mission is to ensure the utmost protection of our clients’ networks, but the security risks associated with port forwarding present significant challenges to maintaining this safety.

01 Jun

6 Ways to Keep Your Business Online in Hurricane Season 2018

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Security

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Welcome to hurricane season 2018! As many of you are aware, hurricane season for 2018 begins June 1 and ends November 30. What does this mean for businesses? Outages, Internet interruptions, server, network, and computer downtime, all of which can translate into a loss of profits. But there are ways to mitigate and or to avoid these kinds of situations: this...

25 May

Read-Only Fridays: Avoiding Weekend Infrastructure Issues

by Trave Harmon

in IT Support, Managed IT

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As we go into the weekend, we would like to introduce you to something in the IT world known as Read-Only Fridays.Read-only Fridays is a term that the IT industry uses for no major changes to any infrastructure when approaching the weekend. The reason why a simple: support hours from the vast majority of manufacturers are usually Monday through Friday...

18 May

How We Deal with Corporate Espionage and Data Breaches

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Privacy, Data Security

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What better way to beat your competition than to know what they are working on and then steal it? What am I talking about? Corporate espionage. Corporate Espionage and Data Breaches Corporate espionage takes many forms, but what we are seeing recently is a tremendous amount of businesses sending in – for lack of better words – spies to their competition and...

18 Jan

Home Computers Versus Business Computers

by Trave Harmon

in Managed IT

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From time to time, we get clients who wish to purchase their own hardware but have us implement the solution. Most of the time we have no issue with this, but when we encounter a computer that was specifically purchased to save money, knowing that it will alienate the client with their lack of performance, we must advise them that...

04 Jan

Bomb Cyclone 2018: Cloud Services and Mother Nature

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Security

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I am literally writing this blog on January 4, 2018, during what is known as the bomb cyclone. My offices have no power, no Internet; backup batteries have been expended; cellular towers are down. So why am I talking about this on a business blog? Keeping Your Servers Up When the Power and Internet is Down Quite simply is a lesson in environmental...

08 Dec

Recommendation: SSD Drives for Commercial Computers

by Trave Harmon

in Managed IT

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Traditionally for many decades computers utilized hard drives that physically moved. Round platters would store our information and read heads would move back and forth to access that information. When it came out, it was revolutionary. But like all good things, time moves on. In the last decade, we have been moving to a technology that does not physically move...