Carnwennan has been awarded IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle.  This opens opportunities for Carnwennan to be competitively available to bid or partner after contracts on the GSA vehicle.   Carnwennan is excited to be able to provide Federal customers Cloud and Cyber ser...

Carnwennan has made several publications related to Antiviruses that the digital community can rely on.  We have always stated the importance of antivirus loaded on your system.  This year AV Comparatives Org conducted their annual 2019 Antivirus bake off.    Top antiv...

There is an ongoing theme every time news breaks of another hacking, breach, or attack. Despite the impact en masse and momentary panic, the conventional response (if one is to respond at all) is generally to change a password and carry on. Recent Facebook-centric news...

Describes the basics needed to understand how to trade Cryptocurrencies

Wikipedia defines Blockchain as "a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography", but what does this really mean to you and me?  Several friends have asked me over and over about blockchain and what it does and ho...

"The keys to the kingdom," a common phrase in the IT industry.  More commonly referred to as superuser rights, but for each and every one us it means access to our most personal and protected secrets.  For businesses, it's the ability to exploit assets and information....

Key Reinstallation Attack (KRACK) is a WiFi hack that was discovered when testing the Android operating system by Mathy Vanhoef.  Many IT forensics experts are warning the public that this exploit impacts other operating systems (OS) including Windows, iOS, Ubuntu, and...

Get your checklist ready, send out communications, make sure we have a call tree ready and make sure we have application teams on standby to verify their systems.  This sound familiar to anyone out there?  It is the makings of a monthly patch cycle that most of us are...

As a continuation of my previous publication “Cloud Data Centers are for you.” I wanted to take a moment to outline what I believe the the cloud road map holds for the future of IT.  Many of my colleagues reference the “Cloud Bubble” as an era that is coming to end and...

I was having a discussion with a few colleagues about control in the cloud versus on premise data centers.  In that conversation I realized that the IT community has very little understanding of cloud security versus OnPrem security.  In talking to my colleagues and cu...