The program to translate names into numbers and vice versa is called, “DNS,” or Domain Name System, and computers that run DNS are called, “DNS servers.” Without DNS, we’d have to remember the IP address of any server we wanted to connect to – no fun. DNS is such an integral part of the internet […]

B lockchain, the underlying technology that powers bitcoin, is one of the buzzwords of the past year. Practically everyone is talking about blockchain, and for good reason. Distributed ledgers, the term of art for blockchain’s underlying technology, offer an exciting new way to transact business without a central authority. Here’s a nontechnical, simplified description of […]

In general, the cybersecurity market is in a positive place. With the federally-formed National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) of 2017, we’re seeing widespread efforts to improve awareness and security capabilities across all organizations. Investments in technology grew, and we saw an improvement in behavior-based threat analytics, which is an effort to mitigate some of […]