This month, we are spotlighting Kari Horst, a Support Specialist and Premium+ technician at Kiosk Information Systems. She has been with PRN for a little over one year and loves working onsite as she gets to develop relationships with the users and learn their specific needs. Kari has worked in IT for 21 years, but […]
The human factor is absolutely critical in cyberdefense. Some of the most popular attack trajectories use employees as entry points to gain access to the network, and once that happens you are putting out fires. No one wants that. Awareness training educates the workforce so that it will be less vulnerable to “social” attacks. But […]
Next up is our hard working Kelsey Kingsbury who is in charge of procurement and vendor management here at Platte River Networks. Kelsey has been with us for just over 10 years. She works closely with the PRN team alongside the clients as well to ensure reasonably priced hardware and software. Throughout Kelsey’s time here […]
Why are there 3x the number of “Critical” security updates since 2016? Data from Microsoft Security Guide visualized using PyGal Copyright Platte River Networks. All rights reserved. In recent years we’ve noticed a significant rise not only of updates but of those specific type labeled “critical.” So we looked into the matter and found that […]
This month for our employee spotlight, we get to know Alexi Odom, a Premium Plus Technician for PRN. Prior to joining PRN, Alexi was enlisted in the Army as an Air Defense Crewmember and then started to gain a love for IT work at a technical school called LeaderQuest. He started at PRN in May […]
This month, we get to know Greg Weiland, a Premium Plus Technician here at Platte River Networks. Greg has been with us for 10 months and supports the Horizons North Credit Union onsite with anything IT. The thing he loves most about his current position is the people he works with and their ability to […]
Microsoft is discontinuing service for a wide variety of products starting in January 2020. If you use Microsoft applications purchased in 2015 or earlier, read this article for the quick version of the Microsoft Lifecycle policy. If you haven’t read Microsoft’s Lifecycle Policies, then rest assured you have saved some very important minutes of your […]
This month, we get to know Ryan Curtis, a managed service engineer at Platte River. Ryan worked at Allen Technology Advising before coming to Platte River so all in all, he has been with the company for 9.5 years. Ryan is the escalation resource for any member of the Help Desk team when they encounter […]
A newly acknowledged vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows 2003 means that some utilities, healthcare providers, and other 24-7 networks will be caught “out in the open” by exploits soon to come. Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) published an update on May 14: “Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708).” In case you […]
