This month on our employee spotlight, we had the chance to learn a little bit about Samantha Johnson, a client resource coordinator here at Platte River Networks. Samantha has been at PRN for five months and enjoys helping people resolve their technical issues and relieve their stress. Her greatest joy is when she is able to help someone […]
Financial services experienced the highest volume of security incidents in both 2017 and 2018, according to the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Attacks are expected to increase for smaller franchised retailers, along with those businesses with distributed infrastructure. Credit unions, on average, spent $362,000 to address these merchant data breaches; this figure does not take […]
In 2016, Manufacturing became one of the most frequent targets of cybercrime, according to a special report by IBM. Since then, we have watched as businesses large and small have fallen victim to worms, viruses, malware, and ransomware targeting Industrial Control Systems (ICS). In fact, the frequency of these attacks grew in the first half […]
Since the US Patent and Trademark Office began their own remote work initiative back in the 90s, businesses of all sizes, from enterprise to solopreneurs have found incredible value in the ability to hire and manage workers from afar — whether this means work-from-home Thursdays or offshoring. But you are not likely to hear the […]
In 2017, a deadly piece of ransomware called NotPetya infected Maersk, quickly spreading through its entire network, almost destroying all digital assets. How was Maersk’s endpoint security breached? Malicious hackers uploaded NotPetya to an accounting software used by the logistics company. The next time the accounting software updated, NotPetya was offloaded into Maersk headquarters — […]
What do consumers want? Quality, convenience, price, and variety – nothing has changed. And at the heart is customer service. The way service is delivered, however, has drastically evolved in recent years. We’ve grown accustomed to talking to machines – whether we realize it or not. Advances in language processing, voice recognition, computer vision, and […]
Most pundits project the cloud computing market to expand by 20% in the next year. Causing this expansion are, in part, emerging technologies that are trending among the IT crowd now, but which are translating to real value delivered to businesses across the globe. Pundits believe these will become common tools for business applications within […]
Cloud computing has come of age, breaking through its “self-centered teenage years” and becoming a “must-have technology for every enterprise.” (Forrester, Predictions 2019: Cloud Computing). While cloud leaders, such as Alibaba, Amazon Web Services and Google are predicted to grow even more in 2019, the global cloud computing market will follow suit, expanding by more […]
AJ Erskin is an Onsite Systems Technician for Platte River Networks. He primarily supports the law offices of WSMT with day to day computer issues and IT woes. From Microsoft office issues up to server and network troubleshooting, AJ runs the full gamut at WSMT. AJ received his Associate’s degree from Ivy Tech Community College […]
