I’m looking to run a little Virus Fight Club, but I want to expand the test set and use exclusively UTM firewalls for my test. I’m looking for two things, people that can provide malware samples and people that can run tests on various firewalls for me.
Currently I have the following UTMs covered:
Astaro
Calyptix
Endian
Fortigate
Sonicwall
Untangle (Open Source)
I [...]
I’m currently in the early stages of talks with another company about some cross collaboration and it just so happens that we are both users of the PSA from Autotask. I’m curious if there is anyone out there that has used Autotask between two companies to pass ticket assignments back and forth and to use [...]
Author’s Note: I am currently a MSP Partner with Calyptix Security, and have been selling their product for about a year now. I am exceedingly happy with my decision to work with Calyptix, and for the sake of transparency thought I should make this point clear to readers that are new to my blog, so [...]
My long trusty Dell Dimension 9100 started overheating last week due to a power supply fan failure. This machine has been extremely faithful to me and for being a first generation dual core system, I can’t complain about my experiences with the box at all. I ordered a PC Power and Cooling unit to replace [...]
I’m currently working on some very unscientific tests of various UTM Firewall features, and came across an interesting observation regarding SonicWALL’s Gateway Anti-virus feature. It is very dependent on having the box for “Restrict Transfer of packed executable files” being checked to be effective. In my testing the effectiveness of the SonicWALL dropped 12% with [...]
I work hard. I work a lot. Typically when I have some down time I don’t spend much time, if any, working on my own personal life, and trimming fat or streamlining my processes at home. I do enough of that on a daily basis with my business that I typically spend a lot of [...]
I have long been a proponent of removing tape as a primary backup medium, with the exception of long term offsite archival storage, and this week has clearly reminded me why I no longer recommend tape backups for my clients.
The scenario that has reminded me why is as follows:
13 DLT-IV tapes that are an archive [...]
When the very near term inclusion of an outsourced company assisting with our onsite services to our clients became a reality, I very seriously began to look at various collaboration resources. I did not travel the popular Basecamp route here; instead I’m using a product called Central Desktop. Central Desktop very easily edges out the [...]
Something I’ve come to grips with recently is that my quoting process for clients is horrible. I know my products, I know what I deliver, but the process is painful and tedious. Currently I’m using a combination of PDFs, Word Documents and Excel Sheets to create a cohesive quote for services to our clients. Frankly, [...]
There should be a provision in every Managed Service Providers contract with their clients to perform an authorized scan and probe of their client’s networks at least once a quarter. Granted, as a highly professional and efficient MSP, there should never be any holes to exploit, but it is always nice to show your client [...]