How Can Executives Manage Cyber Threats by Building a Culture of Cyber Readiness

How Can Executives Manage Cyber Threats? Build a Culture of Cyber Readiness

Reducing your organization's risk from cyber threats requires a holistic approach. Cybersecurity should be integrated across all divisions and at all levels. Cybercriminals do not recognize your internal organization or ...
SEC Targets Financial Firms for Security Compliance Failures. Could You Be Next?

SEC Targets Financial Firms for Security Compliance Failures. Could You Be Next?

In late August of 2021, the SEC sanctioned eight financial services firms in three separate actions for security compliance failures. The SEC contends that the firms failed to establish and ...
Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Data Governance Program?

Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Data Governance Program?   

Last month we shared the first in our series about the importance of having a data governance program. With this post, we go more in-depth about why data governance is ...
Expanded Managed IT Services in Miami and West Palm Beach

Expanded Managed IT Services in Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida

As a leading IT service provider for the financial services and life sciences industry, Coretelligent is pleased to announce the expansion of our field offices in South Florida. With this ...
Client Portal

CoreIQ Portal: New Feature Announcement

At Coretelligent, our CoreIQ Client Portal is an essential component of our service delivery. The CoreIQ Client Portal is a unified gateway that allows our clients to review their accounts, ...
Semiconductor Shortage

What You Need to Know About the Semiconductor Shortage

As you may or may not have heard in the news, there is currently a worldwide shortage of semiconductor chips bringing with it a wide range of challenges. Semiconductor chips ...
Dallas Managed IT Services

Coretelligent Reinforces Commitment to Support with Expansion of Dallas, Texas Managed IT Services

Coretelligent, a leading IT services provider for the financial industry, announces the expansion of our field offices to provide Dallas Managed IT Services. This extension allows Coretelligent to accommodate the ...
Kaseya Ransomware Attack

Anatomy of the Kaseya Ransomware Attack and How to Avoid the Headlines

A breakdown of the Kaseya ransomware attack and how Coretelligent successfully evaded any impacts. The July 4th weekend Kaseya ransomware attack should be a warning to all organizations from small- and ...
Akamai: Edge DNS Service Incident Updates

Akamai: Edge DNS Service Incident Updates

****Afternoon Update (7/22/21)**** At approximately 11:27AM EST Coretelligent was made aware of a spike in outage reports across a variety of online services and websites. Based on reports, the source ...
5 Reasons Your Business Needs Outsourced IT to Evolve

5 Proven Reasons Your Business Needs Outsourced IT to Evolve

Technology is changing at an unprecedented rate, and your IT infrastructure needs to keep up. Outsourced IT services provide a valuable support system for companies that need 24x7x365 access to ...
7 IT Terms You Should Know Before Evaluating IT Solutions

7 IT Terms You Should Know Before Evaluating IT Solutions

Acronyms are a part of many industries—like in the military, healthcare, and real estate, among many others—and information technology is not to be left out. But the use of acronyms ...
Virtual CIO and Strategic Planning

How Can a Virtual CIO Improve Your IT Strategy?

Virtual CIO (vCIO) sessions can help your company by providing the IT leadership and guidance needed to make critical IT decisions. Discussions around IT strategy should include an assessment of ...

Coretelligent Kaseya RMM – Proactive Security Hardening Updates

****Final Update 7/19/2021**** Coretelligent has re-enabled all external customer admin access this morning. Our engineering team is pleased to report that we are now 100% recovered and no further actions ...
Hybrid Workplace

How is the New Normal of the Hybrid Workplace a Cybersecurity Challenge?

Similarly to 2020, when many businesses shifted to remote work in response to COVID-19, the hybrid workplace has emerged as the new normal for 2021 as U.S. companies respond to ...
5 Cybersecurity Terms You Have Come Across But Might Not Know

5 Cybersecurity Terms You Have Come Across But Might Not Know

As you read or listen to the news about the increase in cybercrime—or as you evaluate your organization's cybersecurity posture--you may come across some unfamiliar terminology. While you do not ...
Boost Your Enterprise Capacity with a Better Understanding of Cloud Computing Environments

Boost Your Enterprise Capacity with a Better Understanding of Cloud Computing Environments

We have all heard the phrase “it’s in the cloud.” And you might be wondering where is the cloud, but the more appropriate question is how does the cloud work ...
Phishing Alert

Phishing Scam Targets Brokerages with Fake FINRA Credentials

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently notified members of a phishing operation in which fake emails are sent to FINRA member firms that appear to be legitimate emails from ...
Double Encryption Ransomware

How is Double Encryption Ransomware Making Double the Trouble for Businesses?

In 2020 ransomware victims paid over $350 million in ransom to cybercriminals—a 311% increase over the prior year—according to a 2021 report from the Ransomware Task Force. And the tactics ...
First Ransomware

Fast Fact Friday: First Ransomware Attack

The History of Ransomware Did you know that the first known ransomware attack took place over 30 years ago, in 1989? A Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist named Joseph Popp, widely recognized ...
Cybersecurity and Ransomware

Think About IT: The Ransomware Problem

The Ransomware Problem The recent headlines around the Colonial Gas Pipeline ransomware attack are yet another canary in the coalmine broadcasting the importance of routinely assessing your organization's security readiness ...