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Apply Apple’s brilliance to your business…

October 1, 2019
Posted by Thomas
By every measure, Apple’s App Store is a huge success. Apple maintains complete control over the App Store, everything from the applications available to billing and delivery through its
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Flexera

You’ve just been hit with a vendor audit – now what?

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
If you don’t have your (bleep) together, a vendor license audit is painful. IT audits cause disruption to operations, are often complex and pose the risk of significant unplanned and unbudgeted
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Flexera

Solving this Rubik’s cube is worth millions.

August 18, 2019
Posted by Thomas
Full disclosure, I never enjoyed trying to solve a Rubik’s cube, and to me, it always seemed like a ridiculous waste of time. Although, if someone told me that solving the puzzle would net me
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Big Data

What can you do to maximize the data exhaust your enterprise gives off every day?

April 1, 2019
Posted by Thomas
The machinery of a business is much like the physical machinery of an automobile.  In an automobile, a physical engine powers the automobile whereas the metaphorical equivalent within
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Security, SSH

What you don’t know about SSH can hurt you.

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
SSH is a powerful access protocol that was developed some 20 years ago by Tatu Ylonen of Finland.  The protocol’s primary function is to provide trusted access and encrypt communication in
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SSH

Who should be responsible for SSH?

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
In my job at SSH, I meet with IT executives in many large businesses and government agencies.  Aside from their initial surprise that there is an actual company behind SSH, there is one question
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Security, SSH

Beware the Invisible Man Using SSH

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
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Security, SSH

A theory on the 1 billion account hack – and what you should do to avoid being Yahoo’d

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
Yahoo has been making a lot of news lately and not for good reason. Marisa Myers failed attempt to turn the company around which resulted in the sale of the company to Verizon for 4.8 Billion has
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Security, SSH

May the Brute Force NOT Be With You

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
I recently met with a customer that is using username and password instead of keys to control SSH access.  For the past several months I’ve been so engrossed with solving SSH key management issues
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Security

This could be heaven, or this could be hell.

June 13, 2020
Posted by Thomas
  In late February, California’s attorney general Kamala Harris released a breach report that you can find here.  The report requires companies conducting business in the state of
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