by Joshua Jones | Dec 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Breaking the News Security alert! LastPass, a popular password manager favored by many users, recently experienced an unsettling breach. Read notice from LastPass. What are the implications and what do people really need to know? LastPass is one of the largest...
by Joshua Jones | Feb 5, 2022 | Cyber Security, Dual Factor Authentication, Multi Factor Authentication, vCIO, vCISO
World News reveals a lot Especially when dealing in security. When countries fight, bad actors will show up and this shouldn’t surprise anyone. In the past month, the statement has proven itself true with the sheer increase of alerts about cyber attacks coming out of...
by Aaron Smith | Dec 20, 2021 | Cyber Security, Dual Factor Authentication, Multi Factor Authentication, vCISO
There are always 0 days. There are some though, where the tendency is to eat your life and take over the news cycle. All of them are important and some (due to a combination of media, reach, and impact criticality) are significantly urgent. When the news of Log4J...
by Aaron Smith | Nov 5, 2021 | Compliance, Digital Transformation, Governance
October 20, 2021 — Unicom Technologies has been providing IT compliance and risk management for banks, credit union and financial instituitions since 1988. Today we’re excited to celebrate our designation as a top-rated, vetted IT security and compliance provider in ...
by Aaron Smith | Oct 15, 2021 | Compliance, Cyber Security, Dark Web Monitoring, Digital Transformation, Multi Factor Authentication, On Premise Software, Password Policies, SAAS, vCIO, vCISO, vCTO
Would you like to know the simplest and most effective ways to get hacked? OK – this post is obviously sarcasm (please don’t take this advice!). However, sometimes a little humor helps the issue really sink in. So in that spirit, here are the best ways our...
by Aaron Smith | Aug 13, 2021 | Compliance, Cyber Security, Governance, Password Policies, vCIO, vCISO, vCTO
We’ll be straight with you. It’s not hard to find a dozen other IT companies aka Managed Service Providers (MSP) that will manage your hardware, network and email. That’s the core of what a MSP will do for a client. What makes Unicom unique is our...
by Aaron Smith | Jul 22, 2021 | Cloud Software, Cloud Transformation, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Microsoft 365, On Premise Software, SAAS
One of the best things an organization can do to streamline and simplify their business systems is to ditch their on premise Exchange server and migrate to Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). This frees the organization from having to manage the Exchange environment...
by Aaron Smith | Mar 30, 2021 | Cloud Software, Cloud Transformation, Digital Transformation, On Premise Software, SAAS
As the greatest digital transformation in world history is upon us, many companies in business for 10+ years are faced with moving their data and systems from on-premise to the cloud. Beyond just putting an on-premise server on Azure or AWS, it is helpful to know...
by Aaron Smith | Mar 22, 2021 | vCIO
As a business grows, it faces increasing risks due to regulations and exposure to cyber threats. A bank faces different regulations (and regulators) when they have $500 million in assets under management vs $100 million. A business large enough to become a government...
by Aaron Smith | Jan 21, 2021 | Cloud Software, Cloud Transformation, SAAS
The past decade has seen the world steadily embrace cloud applications. With the onset of Covid in 2020, digital transformation efforts that were on the roadmap for the next decade have been pushed into the next 6-12 months. Covid has forced organizations to the cloud...
