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It doesn’t get any better than this on a Saturday night for the students working in the University of Oklahoma’s Security Operations Center in Norman: a bag of Doritos, a can of Red Bull and hours spent monitoring for computer alerts—the first step in stopping the bad guys. Three students are working as Tier 1’s […]

While attending high school in his native Louisiana, Aaron Keating helped a handful of area companies build their e-commerce platforms. He enjoyed every aspect of the process, from designing and creating the websites to solving big-picture business problems. He was also ingrained with a passion for football—particularly by his late father, who would take his […]

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 […]

Albert Stadler remembers the day in 2019 when he got a phone call from nearby Crowder College. It had been hit by a crippling ransomware attack. In no time, Stadler, then the CIO at Missouri Southern State University, was on his way to help assess the damage. Stadler’s reputation as the “go-to guy” in the […]

“Without continual growth and progress, words such as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.” This internal motto, says Alex Prohorov, never leaves his mind at work, and that may be a good thing given what’s been a fast-paced role at TRAC Intermodal. As the CIO at the New Jersey-based chassis-leasing company, he says he’s […]

It’s said that everything is bigger in Texas, and not simply because its 268,500 square miles make it the largest state in the continental U.S. There are big hats, big trucks, big plates of barbecue and big high school football stadiums where almost 20,000 fans can cheer their team on. And there’s a big fiber […]

It’s getting back to the previous normal for the information technology department at Shared Medical Services Inc. in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin. As more COVID-19 mandates are updated or lifted, IT Director Allen Damrow can continue paused projects, such as replacing infrastructure. Last year’s migration of the company’s accounting software into the NetSuite cloud has proven […]

By most accounts, Andrew Linn loved his job providing cybersecurity for a large multinational bank in New York City. Among his many duties, he made sure every single tap—to access a bank account on a mobile app or pay for a new purchase—was protected from hackers and phishers. Yet, while the bank’s clients were comfortably, […]

Each day she walks through the searing sun and dusty brush on a dirt track, then waits in line for tap water to carry back home to her family. Then one day, the spigot goes dry and it’s not just a wasted walk, it’s her family’s water supply in jeopardy. Communal water points serve about […]