Some of the security concerns we’ve been warning clients about recently have turned out to be true. Read on to hear about recent incidents, what we’ve already done, and are planning to do to further shore things up. Each Managed...
Apr 1, 2020 Portland, OR. - for immediate release In response to an uptick in demand for customers to work from home, SpireTech has developed some new technology to rapidly move legacy servers to the...
We remain very concerned about recent security issues related to work from home, including: Proper anti-virus and anti-malware software installed on home systems Patch management and updates of home systems VPN’s allowing additional paths for...
IT workers around the world have been busy the last couple of weeks. At SpireTech, the service desk has been slammed with issues relating to everybody getting setup to work from home (WFH) and we apologize for any...
Starting this month, SpireTech VIPsupport Managed Services clients will be receiving improved reports. These reports will go to the main contact(s) in your organization charged with overseeing your SpireTech relationship. The reports are interactive with...
With recent headlines, has your company considered what might happen if your employees needed to work from home suddenly? Does your company have policies and procedures in place for working remotely? SpireTech can help you get ready. Things to consider...
We’ve been recommending for quite a while that our clients implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) on their email and Office365 accounts – really, anything that can have MFA enabled should. You may have heard of two-factor authentication (2FA) before,...
2019 was a year of continued growth at SpireTech. We’d like to thank all our clients for your continued support and your referrals – we don’t advertise much, so we appreciate every referral! Review of 2019 Business Activity We spent a lot of the year focused...
We are starting to hear from clients interested in IT capital expenditures or projects they want to accomplish before the end of the calendar year for both operational and tax deduction purposes – in many instances equipment purchases and IT projects can be...
Update: Microsoft has stopped deploying build 1809 due to reports of lost data. At this time there is not a new release window. More information can be found at this link. Microsoft Windows runs 87% of the world's computers. Windows 10 is the latest version and keeps...