Banking on the Quarantine

Posted by Todd in April 2nd 2020

Here are a few tech companies doing very well during quarantine because of their services to support remote workers: 1. Citrix Systems, owners of join.me, GoToMeeting, XenApp and other application services supporting remote workers and collaboration. Almost all hospitals publish medical applications via Citrix XenApp as well.2. Microsoft. Thanks to Sharepoint, Office 365 (now “Microsoft […]

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COVID-19 Panic Check

Posted by Todd in March 24th 2020

Time for another panic check. The media is producing comparison charts to make COVID-19 look worse than other historic outbreaks. They NEVER include N1H1 which started right here in the USA. “The CDC estimated that from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, there were 60.8 million H1N1 cases, with 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths […]

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Checkpoint SmartConsole just Sucks. 80.10 80.20

Posted by Todd in February 12th 2020

I’ve been deploying and managing corporate firewalls for over 27 years. Over the past two years this included an assortment of Cisco ASA (Firepower), Sophos and Checkpoint appliances. I can say without hesitation that Checkpoint SmartConsole is the absolute worst firewall management interface I’ve ever experienced. And Checkpoint wants a ransom to expand the number […]

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