The best trick I have ever learned is to Be Your Own Hype-Person.

This revolves around having positive self-talk and finding the strengths in the way you deliver. It seems simple, but when fear comes our way, we begin to protect ourselves and find any negative out there. Positive self-talk allows you to be assertive with the person who needs it the most in those tough situations: You.

In April 2020, VMware announced the general availability of VMware vSphere 7, the latest version of their flagship virtualization product.  VMware customers had been anxiously awaiting the release of vSphere 7, the subsequent rollout and adoption by the customer has certainly been fantastic.

Here is one example on how you can create a Custom Content Type in a SharePoint site, that provides more document template options for the site user when they need to create a new document in a library; when they use the New Document drop-down menu command on the file ribbon. Anything that we can do as Site Owners to improve productivity and efficiency of team members working in the Document Library, so everyone can work smarter and not harder! Teamwork makes the dream work!

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), by Microsoft, is a FREE small lightweight code editor that can be installed on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.  VS Code is not an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like Visual Studio but it has many IDE-like features.

A recent IT spending survey conducted by Goldman Sachs showed that, while Amazon is still the largest of the cloud service providers, Microsoft Azure is the most popular provider and is quickly gaining market share. Organizations prefer Azure because of its flexibility, security features, and ability to scale, and employers across the country are currently looking for skilled Azure workers to help build out their online operations.

How to use Purpose, Audience and Tone in your Business Communications

With anything related to IT someone needs to understand numbering systems and converting from one numbering system to another as a basic skill to other skills. This piece is related to that requirement which is a basic skill in the following CompTIA courses: A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, CASP, Cloud+, and CySA+ as well as Cisco and Microsoft certifications.

Anyone with questions is invited to communicate with me at drussell@nhnashville.com and I will be glad to communicate with them. 

Let’s look at it from the cybercriminals point of view;  you can either attempt to write the most awesome, complex, greatest password-cracker program in the history of password-cracker programs, or you could develop a confidence game directed at an employee who might be having a bad day, or at a group of employees who have not had proper cyber-security awareness training in order to steal credentials. 

Penetration testing, ethical hacking, or pen-testing as it is often called, is a much more active approach to identifying and even attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in a particular system, while a Vulnerability Assessment is an exercise in checking the security state of a system at a particular point in time or under a specific configuration.