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Winslow Technology Group Announces Sponsorship with Professional Golfer Stephen Stallings Jr.

WALTHAM, Mass., March 01, 2022 — Winslow Technology Group, an IT solutions and services provider, today announced a sponsorship agreement with Stephen Stallings Jr., a 27-year-old professional golfer from the University of Kentucky. Stephen currently has full-time membership on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica. He has played in eight PGA Tour events, making the cut in […]

Russian Cyberattacks – Prepare for Increased Defense

Our thoughts are with all those impacted by the Russia-Ukraine crisis. We hope for a swift and peaceful resolution to this conflict. As we see increased tension, we are encouraging customers to take stock of their current posture and prepare for increased defense posture. As we saw with malware such as notpeya, an attack on […]

Critical Remote Code Vulnerability with Apache Log4j

As many of you may be aware by this point, a critical remote code vulnerability was published concerning the Apache Log4j library on December 10, 2021. This vulnerability is being tracked by NIST here in CVE-2021-44228. MANY of the products we offer are vulnerable to this security vulnerability. Here are some resources that should be […]

Dell SC (Compellent) Formally Announce End of Life

05 October 2021
by: Rick Gouin
in: Dell Technologies,Midrange Storage
Tags: Compellent, Dell, Storage
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Dell SC, perhaps better known as Compellent, has finally had its end of life formally announced. I feel like many people have been watching for this since the acquisition of EMC was announced in 2015. At that time, Dell suddenly found itself with numerous overlapping storage platforms and product teams. Jeff Clarke, COO at Dell, […]

Defense in Depth

30 September 2021
by: Matthew Kozloski
in: Cybersecurity,Security
Tags: cyberattacks, cybersecurity, ransomware, security
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Defense-in-Depth. It’s time to revisit an old but tried and true model. Here at WTG we’ve been spending a fair amount of time investigating the landscape that is cyber liability insurance, cyber litigation, breach, and loss. In looking at that landscape, we’ve been reminded of why our NIST CSF / Defense-in-Depth based approach to helping […]

vSphere 7.0 U1/U2 Important Upgrade Notice

** August 2021 Update ** First, the fine print: This is suggestive content to be used at your discretion. Products, processes, and procedures below are not sanctioned, supported, warrantied, or otherwise recommended by WTG, Dell, or other OEMs. We’ve researched this and are making the following suggestion. For modern Dell servers, for example, you will [...]Read More »

How to Move an Existing VM into AWS EC2

03 August 2021
by: Rick Gouin
in: AWS
Tags: AWS, EC2, VM
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You want to move a VM into AWS EC2 with as little knowledge as possible, right? You don’t care to become an expert in AWS, you just want enough to get the job done. Here is what you have to do, how to do it, and how long it will take. Time it: For a 15GB [...]Read More »

The Top 12 Healthcare Industry Cyberattacks

27 July 2021
by: Winslow Technology Group
in: Cybersecurity,Security
Tags: Arctic Wolf, cyberattacks, healthcare
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Healthcare providers don’t have the resources for cutting-edge defenses—and threat actors know this, so health records are a hot and valuable commodity on the dark web. In fact, cyberattacks on healthcare providers have resulted in 3,705 data breaches and 267 million compromised medical records since 2009, HIPAA Journal reports. In 2020, healthcare was the top industry in […]

The Top Cyberattacks of June 2021

May 2021 raised the bar for high-profile cyberattacks, and July seems poised to set the bar even higher. In that context, June’s slate of data breaches and security lapses isn’t quite so dramatic. For a month that saw hacks of healthcare providers, entertainment giants, and even the Olympics organization, that’s a sobering idea in and [...]Read More »

Arctic Wolf’s Response to Kaseya Supply Chain Attack and Takeaways from Matt Kozloski

Response to Kaseya Supply Chain Attack Arctic Wolf is aware of the Kaseya supply chain attack, reportedly affecting between 800 and 1,500 businesses around the world. The Kaseya VSA supply chain ransomware campaign is a sophisticated and intentional attack, the scope of which will not be fully understood for many weeks or possibly months. Any [...]Read More »