by Lyell Marks | Sep 29, 2022
Join Western Integrated Systems at the 2022 Municipal Information Systems Association Conference (MISAC) in beautiful Monterey, where we will be exhibiting alongside some of our premiere partners. This marks the 20th anniversary for MISAC, which started back in 2002....
by Lyell Marks | Sep 19, 2022
If one thing is becoming clear with the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks, it’s that the perpetrators like to strike when a victim is at their most vulnerable point. The latest victim, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), fits the bill for an emerging...
by Lyell Marks | Mar 4, 2022
What is Microfilm: Remember taking the black and white negatives from your 35mm camera to the local store to be developed? Microfilm goes through a similar process, but in the reverse order—rather than developing film into large images or pictures, documents and...
by Lyell Marks | Dec 22, 2021
Achilles Heel – A Lesson in Cybersecurity In Greek mythology, Achilles’ mother was told her son would die young. As any good mother would do, she sought out a solution to protect him from this fate and dipped his body in the Styx River, which would make him impervious...
by Lyell Marks | Dec 17, 2021
Ransomware doesn’t discriminate when it comes to its victims–nor do the perpetrators care whether the damage will affect the livelihood of the everyday employees. The latest example was an orchestrated attack that targeted the workforce management company...
by Lyell Marks | Aug 3, 2021
The Problem With seven million files of regulatory compliance data residing on their Enterprise Content Management System (ECM), this Southern California Municipality was running out of primary storage and had no viable cloud backup. Considering this particular...