Blog / Time to start planning to upgrade to Windows 11 Windows 11 logo on a computer and cell phone screen Windows 10 end of life is approaching. Software may not be able to literally die, but software end-0f-life is a real thing.  That means the organization that originally created it will no longer be improving or patching it. No more updates, no more support, nothing. This applies to operating systems as well most other software […] May 02, 2023
Blog / How many email addresses should you have? email addresses Let’s talk about your personal security behavior for a minute. Most of my newsletters are aimed at organizations in some capacity. Many of them involve creating official policies or procedures to ensure that employees have a solid set of rules to follow. This time I wanted to talk about personal habits surrounding email and security. […] April 25, 2023
Blog / Email: Inhouse or Cloud Based? Email server Inhouse and Cloud email can’t both be right, right? Cloud services have long been touted as the future of computing. You don’t need to spend money on hardware, which is nice, but you do need to pay a monthly subscription. One of the other claims is that the security is improved. This can be true, […] April 18, 2023
Blog / What is Shadow IT? Silhouette of computer representing Shadow IT Despite the dangerous sounding name, Shadow IT isn’t all bad. It may sound like you have a hacker lurking the darkest corners of your network using illicit hardware for some nefarious but nebulous purpose, and you’d be justified in thinking that that’s what shadow IT is. Fortunately, the truth is far less dangerous, albeit not […] April 13, 2023
Blog / Device Drivers A video card as an example of device drivers What are device drivers and why are they important? We’ve all been there at some point; we go to perform some task on our computer, either exotic or mundane, and it fails. Then up pops one of those inscrutable error codes that look like English but read like Latin. The technobabble makes mention of something […] April 06, 2023
Blog / Time to Catch Up on Exchange Patches Microsoft Exchange Patches for Servers Microsoft has announced they’re going to start enforcing policies about Exchange patches. It seems like Microsoft Exchange has been the focus of hacker attackers for a long time now, though considering how common it is and that focusing on common software maximizes hackers’ potential for “positive” results, it’s not exactly surprising. It’s the same reason […] April 04, 2023
Blog / The Nitty Gritty of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) SLAs conceptualized as a blue button on a keyboard We take a peek at some of the lesser known details of SLAs. Service level agreements (also known as SLAs) aren’t a particularly new concept, though in case you’re unaware, they layout the services, costs, and time frames for rectifying problems, among other things. They’re used to help ensure both sides understand exactly what to […] March 23, 2023
Blog / The Importance Of Your Ransomware Response ransomware response Getting it wrong could mean costly penalties. Ransomware is a topic that I’ve covered in the recent past, so much so that you’ve read or at least seen a few of them like this one, or this one, or maybe even this one (just to point out a few). It comes up so often it […] March 21, 2023
Blog / Three Ways Technology is Empowering Municipal Government high tech municipal government How technology can benefit your municipal government. Governments, be they local, provincial or federal–are meant to offer much needed services for the community but often struggle to do so efficiently and economically. There’s a variety of reasons for this, and we’re not a politics blog so we’re not going to get into the details of […] March 16, 2023
Blog / AI and ChatGPT are Amazing. ChatGPT on a computer screen But are they a security risk? A long time ago, before the before times,  I earned my degree in computer programming with a major in Artificial Intelligence. AI is has been a topic of previous TRINUS newsletters and the current technology buzzword these days, specifically ChatGPT, which uses an AI-modeled text system to interface with […] March 14, 2023

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