Category: Tech Insight

Tech Time Warp: A seriously cautionary tale of spear phishing

Tech Time Warp: A seriously cautionary tale of spear phishing

One of the major messages of the #SecureOurWorld Cybersecurity Awareness Month is for computer users to educate themselves on how to recognize and reporting phishing schemes. One of the most insidious forms is spear phishing, which uses social engineering to...

/ October 18, 2024
The era of LLMs, transformers, and FLMs in AI

The era of LLMs, transformers, and FLMs in AI

“Hello, how are you today?” A simple enough statement, often used to start a conversation. A generative AI (GenAI) interaction will result in a simple human response, such as “I’m fine, thanks.” The GenAI engine can then move on to...

/ October 16, 2024
Survey reveals cloud trends opening opportunities for MSPs

Survey reveals cloud trends opening opportunities for MSPs

A survey of 962 IT decision makers conducted by CDW suggests organizations rely on a mix of internal and external expertise to manage cloud services. 88 percent said they can effectively manage their cloud environments, with 50 percent noting they...

/ October 15, 2024
Tech Time Warp: Cybersecurity’s evolving role in homeland security

Tech Time Warp: Cybersecurity’s evolving role in homeland security

Although Cybersecurity Awareness Month has been observed in some fashion for more than 20 years, the federal agency leading the effort to #SecureOurWorld has only existed since late 2018. Let’s dive into this week’s Tech Time Warp. The origin story...

/ October 11, 2024
cloud services
Unlock new opportunities: How cloud services can fuel MSP growth

Unlock new opportunities: How cloud services can fuel MSP growth

A report from Synergy Research Group finds total global spending on cloud services and infrastructure reached $427 billion in the first half of 2024, a 23 percent year-over-year increase. During this time, consumption of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service...

/ October 7, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Time for pumpkins, ghosts, and cybersecurity awareness

Tech Time Warp: Time for pumpkins, ghosts, and cybersecurity awareness

If you’re reading this, you know it’s important to be cyber-aware 365 days a year, but for more than 20 years, October has been as synonymous in the tech world with cybersecurity as it is with pumpkins and ghosts. In...

/ October 4, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: The logic bomb that launched an industry

Tech Time Warp: The logic bomb that launched an industry

Whether you called it Jerusalem, Friday the 13th, Datacrime, or the Columbus Day virus, the malware was first uncovered in October 1987 and the variants it inspired are remembered nearly 50 years later for the good they did. No—really, you...

/ September 27, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: The impetus for U.S. national security policy was… a teen movie?

Tech Time Warp: The impetus for U.S. national security policy was… a teen movie?

“Is this a game, or is it real?” Eighties movie buffs will recognize this famous line from 1983’s WarGames, where Matthew Broderick plays a teenager who hacks into a defense department computer system. After Broderick’s character guesses an insecure password...

/ September 20, 2024
pioneers in tech
Pioneers in Tech: Dorothy Vaughn, one of the women of Apollo

Pioneers in Tech: Dorothy Vaughn, one of the women of Apollo

The woman who became NASA’s first Black manager was honored in July with the renaming of a central building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Learn all about her trailblazing career in this edition of Pioneers in Tech! On...

/ September 13, 2024
generative AI
Generative AI inference engines create MSP opportunities

Generative AI inference engines create MSP opportunities

More organizations are beginning to operationalize generative artificial intelligence (AI). Along with this, many of them will be looking to managed service providers (MSPs) to help them optimally deploy the inference engines that are needed to analyze data in production...

/ September 9, 2024