Running a small business in Houston means juggling multiple responsibilities every day. Cybersecurity often falls to the bottom of your to-do list—not because you don’t care, but because it feels overwhelming. At NetTrench, we understand that IT shouldn’t add stress; it should ease it. Here are five simple, effective cybersecurity tips designed specifically for small …
When was the last time dealing with IT issues felt refreshing? For most small business owners, especially here in Houston, that question might prompt laughter. Technology is supposed to make life easier—but too often, it becomes yet another stressor in a seemingly endless to-do list. At Netrench, we believe IT support shouldn’t be draining. In …
So you think that there has been a cyber attack that took place in your network. How do you find out? Where do you start looking? The fact of the matter is that there is so much information to go through that it is easy to miss indicators of compromise or in other words, signs …
Before we start spending tons of cash to increase internet bandwidth and upgrading network equipment such as servers, switches and access points to resolve network slowness issues, we need to further investigate our network via packet sniffer tools such as WireShark or TCPDump. Packet Loss In one of our previous posts, we pointed out the …
In a nutshell, endpoints are hosts such as laptops, desktops, servers and IP phones and not to mention employee owned devices which generally are referred to as bring your own devices (BYODs). It has almost become a daily occurrence in the news nowadays regarding cyber-attacks on various types of networks especially enterprise networks. If we …
The role of a network security professional today has become more challenging than ever. Apart from their routine responsibilities to secure the network environments, they are leveraged to support general IT requirements to assist all the folks that are now working from home. In most of the network implementations, security solutions are configured to protect …
One of the most critical components of cyber security is threat intelligence. If we look at the big picture, threat intelligence analysis provides us crucial and aggregated information. This allows for proactive instead of reactive decision making along the way. Let’s briefly look into how we can use threat intelligence to our advantage. Breaking Down …
As we all know, the world of cybersecurity is an ever-evolving, fast-growing industry that can be tough to follow at times. For example, we have seen a rapid upsurge in the use of smart devices and with that, an increased risk of cyberattacks. This has not been limited to private households either. Rather, the logistics …
Cybersecurity professionals are always interested in understanding how evolving events shape the threat landscape. Events such as WannaCry and NotPetya may have temporarily crippled technology environments that were running with third-rate security*, but the repercussions from the coronavirus will hit every organization, no matter how resilient they thought they were. No single event to date …
Let’s face it, we’ve all at some point or another have faced slowness with our office networks. We have tried several methods to “resolve” the slowness including rebooting the devices such as ISP routers, firewalls, switches and servers. We have also tried other methods like replacing the hardware such as servers and switches in hopes …
