Latest Publications

My latest published work:

  • We’ve seen the news reports of people asking ChatGPT all sorts of questions and receiving responses eliciting reactions that vary from awestruck at the intelligence of the software to incredulous laughter at its mistakes and, sometimes, outright…
  • If you read our last blog post, you know what a SIEM is and why it’s significant. (A SIEM cross-correlates all security notifications across all resources to filter out the false positives.) But how? E-R-I-N Events First, we collect millions of raw…
  • With increasing pressure from today’s competitors and customers, businesses can’t afford to maintain an outdated communications system. Keeping an aging, on-premises PBX on “life-support” can bite deep into an already stretched IT budget. In the…
  • Are you considering upgrading your current communications solution? Join Innovative Computing Systems and oue partners, 8×8, on February 22, 2023, at 11:00 am PST to hear the benefits of moving to a cloud-based communications solution from…
  • Leading organizations are constantly looking for ways to improve productivity and customer service—all while keeping costs down. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provides a foundation for organizational improvement, giving businesses new…
  • The end of 2022 closes out two years of high uncertainty—a pandemic, supply-chain delays, a war, market downturns and crypto implosions, among other complications—leaving many law firms wondering how and where to align their technology budgets for…
  • Microsoft has reported two new vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-41040 & CVE-2022-41082) affecting on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. Microsoft has observed limited, targeted attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities to compromise…
  • Litera recently created a video we believe you will find informative and helpful in planning for the many upcoming end-of-life dates for iManage and related solutions (e.g., cleanDocs, compareDocs, MS Server 2012R2, MS Basic Authentication). The…
  • Litera recently created a video we believe you will find informative and helpful in planning for the many upcoming end-of-life dates for iManage and related solutions (e.g., cleanDocs, compareDocs, MS Server 2012R2, MS Basic Authentication). The…
  • Confidentiality is expected by legal services clients. Despite shortcomings in many laypersons’ understanding of the workings of the legal profession, privacy and information security are widely recognized as core responsibilities of legal…

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