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We also found out that we want to manage “all our infrastructure” (whether owned or rented), “all our data,” and “all our applications” the same way. Right now, the answer is “not well at present,” but our industry is moving in the right direction to simplified infrastructure, simplified inventory, simplified management and create universal policies. We want to be able to “right size” performance and capacity to fit the differing needs of data and apps, manage by policy, and adjust to fit current needs. Different companies are trying different methods of developing a simplified way of managing all a company’s IT infrastructure the same way.

You wouldn’t put 50k miles without changing the oil in your car’s engine, so why would you wait to patch production systems in your datacenter? This investment in time to keep systems at current supported versions will reduce the amount of time troubleshooting problems within the environment. When a problem does arise, the vendor can get to work looking at the issue, instead of pouring through logs and discovering that a driver or software is not at supported level. We can provide the necessary services to do a gap analysis of your environment and provide a blueprint statement of work to get your systems to current maintenance versions.

On your Exchange Server: Strange directories in “C:\windows\temp”, containing reports, and Exchange specific data files Run the MSERT Vulnerability Checker which can detect malicious web shells The following link will provide you with a feed from Microsoft of malware hashes and known malicious file paths observed in related attacks in both JSON and CSV formats. If you are not in a position to take advantage of the tools required to monitor for this type of activity, consider migrating to Office365 which is generally less susceptible to these type of attacks. If you are unsure if you have been affected, need assistance updating you current environment, or would like to have a discussion about migrating to Office365, please contact CPP and we will be happy to discuss next steps with you.

That being said, if my life could be equated to that of a tree I would think if you did a carbon ring test on me, you would definitely notice a difference between all the rings prior and the most recent one that was formed. My hope is that as the flowers start to bloom and leaves fill our trees, we can start to move back to a sense of normalcy: a new season of hope. Let’s hope that the remedies for society’s health take hold but also that we start thinking about remedies to heal the soul of our society. Use them to better understand your neighbor, family member, customer, challenger, foe, etc.