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Microsoft and VMware Partner Up as Microsoft Virtualization Changes Direction

Microsoft and VMware Partner Up as Microsoft Virtualization Changes Direction

Microsoft Hyper-V is going away and is not included in Windows Server 2022.  You’re probably thinking that it wasn’t that long ago that it felt like Microsoft and VMware were the arch-est of archenemies.  Hyper-V and ESX were leapfrogging each other in capabilities and both developed a following.  VMware made a solid foray into public […]

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Dell SC (Compellent) Formally Announce End of Life

Dell SC (Compellent) Formally Announce End of Life

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, […]

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Defense in Depth

Defense in Depth

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 […]

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vSphere 7.0 U1/U2 Important Upgrade Notice

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 »
The Top 12 Healthcare Industry Cyberattacks

The Top 12 Healthcare Industry Cyberattacks

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 […]

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The Top Cyberattacks of June 2021

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 »
Hardening Your Dell Storage Center (SC) – Compellent

Hardening Your Dell Storage Center (SC) – Compellent

Over the last year or so, I’ve helped multiple companies recover from ransomware events utilizing snapshots on their storage arrays.  In several of these instances, the customer’s backups were compromised along with their production environment.  A storage array can be a nice part of a recovery strategy, as they seem to be targeted less frequently [...]Read More »