Features February 2021

The call came while Aaron Leiberman was attending an industry conference in Las Vegas for partners and customers. A ConRes client had been hit with a ransomware attack, and he and his team of solution architects and engineers were urgently needed on-site to guide incident response and recovery efforts. Leaving the conference immediately, Leiberman, the […]

So was that person on TV living inside the box? How could they fit into a space like that? To answer that pressing question, young Abel Bautista took apart the family television. Though he found no one amid the tubes and wiring, he did find he could take things apart and put them back together […]

It’s not far off the mark to say Chris Myers endured everything but a swarm of locusts in 2020. A pandemic, tornado and multiple cyberthreats top the list of calamities the chief technology officer at Doylestown Hospital confronted, and just for good measure, the pandemic surged twice and remained very much a public health threat […]

Digging at construction sites can be a case of “one strike and you’re out”—out of power, off the internet or even out of your home or office because of a gas leak. Especially in urban environments, there’s likely a crisscrossing underground network of steel water pipes, gas lines, PVC conduits and phone, cable and electrical […]

When Frank Quintana took his infotech background to the city of Miami Beach in the summer of 2014, it marked his first foray into the public sector. “My biggest professional challenge,” he told Toggle this past January. “I was comfortable with the tech, but it was a challenge to manage an extremely experienced team all […]

Chief information security officer of Ecuador’s biggest bank since July 2019, Juan Carlos Beltran thinks that to be successful, HR is critical. Every year, he meets with the human resources department to identify training and certification needed for security staff. Also, as is his standard practice, when incorporating new components to security architecture, he ensures […]

Walk into any Best Buy and what do you see? Computers, big-screen TVs, appliances big and small. Cellular phones. Home stereo speakers sometimes taller than the person charged with selling them. What you also see are dollar signs because technology is expensive—especially new technology. When Kevin Baldus was hired as the CIO at Brown Smith […]

He anticipates a trend, the outsourcing of data protection that his employer is well-positioned to assume on behalf of corporate clientele. For many companies, it’s a question of when, not if, they’ll be hacked, Matthew Ireland warns, and they may not even know about it for three to six months while the consequences accrue. “We’re […]

There are lots of things that can be borrowed from the LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library System in Florida—but 80 laptops at once? It happened in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says Leon County CIO Michelle Taylor. In truth, the Dell laptops the library ordered to replace desktops were redirected because they had not […]

He knows of client companies whose data has been breached, rendering them liable for delays, damages and fines that add up to billions of dollars. There’s a common denominator in construction industry hackings, explains Randy Muyargas. Too often, he tells Toggle this past December, the industry has been behind the infotech times, relying on outdated […]