Shandam Consulting
“One thing I specifically like about Shandam is they’re vendor and product agnostic. When discussing firewalls, they’ll say “you need a firewall that does XYZ, or meets requirement ABC”, not…
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“Working with Shandam was a pleasure. Their technical design expertise was phenomenal. And they were also very good at dealing with the people and the politics of the situation. I…
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We’re in the midst of rapidly scaling our business. We’ve been in business for 32 years but have doubled in size in the last 18 months. Not surprisingly, our IT…
read moreIT Risk #7: Untested Backup Power Supplies (UPS) When winter rolls around, we here at Shandam know we can expect: Gifts of unwanted fruitcake An ugly, homemade sweater from a…
read moreIT Risk #6: Unrestricted Employee Internet Usage Guardrails Stop signs Traffic signals Speed bumps Question: What do all these things have in common? Answer: They are designed to protect us…
read moreIf you were born in the 1940’s, you could expect a TV to last 10 or more years. If you were born in this century, a 5-year-old TV is positively…
read moreSoftware vendors often discover issues with their software may affects its performance, stability, security or functionality after it has been released that. To address these problems, they release software updates…
read moreIf you have kids, their school probably has some sort of web portal that lets you track their educational progress: current grades, homework status, attendance, etc. Every parent learns that…
read moreIf your organization is a utility, it almost certainly has a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to manage and automate industrial processes. For years SCADA systems were proprietary…
read moreIT Risk #2 – Untested antivirus software. Jim: “This crocodile repellant works great! Bob: “How can you be sure?” Jim: “Well, you don’t see any crocodiles around here, do…
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