Do you know where YOUR credentials are?
It’s midnight. Do you know where your credentials are? The recent Petya malware attacks are a reminder that malware relies on being able to propagate from a single point of infection across entire...
View ArticleTachyon: The graphic novel chapter 2
Last week in chapter one of our graphic novel, we saw Sumir struggle with his ideas—he was fighting an internal battle that caused an intense change that produced a paradigm-shifting idea. Sumir was...
View ArticleFast tracking Windows 10 deployments Q/A
The 1E webinars aren’t like other company’s webinars. What sets us apart is not only our expertise but our ability to take high-level concepts and share them with the community. In our latest, members...
View ArticleTachyon: Silver Bullet
I’ve been working in various areas of IT for over 20 years. Inventory, Security, SAM… in each field I’ve always said that there’s no “silver bullet” – there’s no one tool that can do everything. That’s...
View ArticleAnything you can do, I can do better
We can do that already. No. No, you can’t. A famous aphorism states that “There’s nothing new under the sun” – with the rate of change in today’s technology environment, I think we have to reassess the...
View ArticleTachyon: The graphic novel chapter 1
Today marks a special occasion. Today we announce Tachyon: The Graphic Novel. Part science fiction, part real life, the Tachyon Graphic Novel takes you through a space odyssey adventure like one you’ve...
View ArticleThe magic of Tachyon
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” In the 1960s, Abraham Maslow, a psychologist, wrote of the perils of reductionism; the...
View ArticleHow to write a good Product Pack
There’s more to writing a good Product Pack for Tachyon than having a great idea and being able to implement it technically. Here’s the TLDR version: Tip #1: Use Tachyon SCALE language methods...
View ArticleHow 1E and Tableau spun up a 5000-machine company in one week
You may recall that last year 1E attended Tableau’s customer conference in Austin, Texas. We were there primarily to see how Tableau was using our Configuration Manager solution Nomad. 5,000 computers...
View ArticleA real IT team’s response to malware
When it became apparent that rapidly spreading malware was in the wild, the first question 1E’s Internal IT Team needed answering was, “Are we vulnerable?” Details of the attack vector were very...
View ArticleThe best of MMSMOA
When you’re in an MVP’s shoes, you accumulate a large number of conference experiences. This year, at MMS, 1E MVP Ron Crumbaker was reminded of one of the best he’s ever attended, The Microsoft...
View ArticleWhat is bimodal IT?
What remains after you are current? Experts are agreed; patching your software and keeping it up-to-date is the single most important thing that every single organization must do if they want to have a...
View ArticleBattling WannaCry the smart way- Product Pack
Last Friday the Wanna Cry 2.0 ransomware attack made headlines worldwide. As I covered in my previous blog, Tachyon customers were able to immediately identify if they had been infected or not, using...
View ArticleKeylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver
A couple of days ago it was announced that certain HP audio drivers contain a keylogger. No one knows how or why. Then on Friday last week, I had a technical meeting with a new 1E customer and I...
View ArticleWannaCry 2 is bringing tears across the globe
I’d guess that the individuals behind cyber crimes often think of their actions as being a “victim-less” crime. “It’s only money”, they think, as they are targeting large organizations with deep...
View ArticleAre the wheels coming off at Tanium?
There are times when nothing seems to go right for a company. Cybersecurity vendor Tanium – at least in terms of their public image – appear to be going through one of those periods. Some of the bad...
View ArticleRegister now for MMS!
Imagine beautiful Minnesota in May and four full days of a high-level conference where you can network, learn, and share your passion for the IT community. That’s what you get at The Midwest Management...
View ArticleHow a Senior Forrester analyst views the IT industry
When our CEO and Senior Forrester analyst Chris Sherman got together for a webinar last month to discuss the launch of our latest product Tachyon, both Chris and Sumir spoke about the benefits of this...
View ArticleFear change? (Tachyon is here)
So, let’s face it: every business goes through change. They need to evolve to generate new opportunities and react to new threats, and as part of that process, in a general sense, information...
View ArticleNew 1E report reveals US software waste at $28 billion
Global enterprise software waste today stands at 38%, totaling $28 billion of waste in the US alone, or $247 per user, according to a free, new downloadable study published today by 1E. Drawing on...
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