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Your Secret Guide to Staying Ahead of the Storm

So we’ve actually been through some pretty bad hurricanes in South Florida, and at one time I did nothing but the banking industry and when that hurricane blew through. We had banks with no power, no internet, nothing. But the problem being is if you’re in a financial institution, you’re part of the core infrastructure. Read More

Spider Networks: Making IT Easy for Your Business

So generally when a company hires us, we’re the first call for any problem, even if it’s, for example, Clio or if it’s a credit union or a bank where none of their data is stored locally and is managed by somebody else. Because they’re the client and they don’t really have the technical skills, Read More

Don’t Click That Link!

Here’s something I tell all of my clients as a security professional. Watch out for emails that look like they’re from legitimate vendors like Netflix or Bank. They’ll ask you to log in and provide information and even provide you a link. Don’t click on it. They just wanna steal your banking information or credentials. Read More

Using Wire Transfers? Slow Down!

There is an email that goes around that may appear as if it’s from a client or something, and they have a closing coming and they’re asking for the money to be transferred using a wire transfer. They actually came, our client came very close to actually transferring that money before having a conversation with Read More

The Nigerian Prince Strikes Again!

And it’s hard to believe that even today that that silly Nigerian prince letter is still going around, right? So it came around in an email, a highly intelligent person, very wealthy, got that letter. They got a check from the Nigerian prince, went to the financial institution and cashed that check, and we’re not Read More

Spider Networks; Making IT Easy

When you call us, whoever answers the phone, even if it’s not an IT issue or anything, we’ll do everything we can to help. You know, even, even if it’s like an Oracle issue or, or something that has nothing to do with the local issue, and, and if our first person who’s there can’t Read More

Your Local Hero; Spider Networks

So Spider Networks is a South Florida company that has all of our people working out of South Florida, and we do not outsource any of our service outside the country. The people that work here are highly experienced from college educated, all system engineers with decades of experience serving the South Florida area. We Read More

Your NIST Roadmap

So when we’re approached by a business that need to meet those NIST requirements, we create a small roadmap and piecemeal everything together with small little projects to eventually get them to their end game so that they become compliant with the nist. We first start by understanding what that business specific requirements are in Read More

How to Build a Business Continuity Community

One of the things we experienced in Wilma was, you know, it was pretty devastating to the area, so a lot of businesses were down, but a few miles down, those businesses were operating and it was a pleasure to work with businesses that actually worked together. So the businesses that lost their building or Read More

STOP! The Dangers of Forwarding Emails

What happened to one of our clients, which happened to be a financial institution, is they got a malware in or, or a virus, and what ended up happening in this one instant. They were unsure of the email that came in. So rather than them just deleting it, ignoring it, they ended up forwarding Read More