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How to Encrypt Passwords in PowerShell

February 15, 2018 by Luke Orellana
 
This post is part of a series on PowerShell for MSPs. Using SFTP Working with REST APIs HTML Tables for Reporting As a MSP, managing passwords in PowerShell scripts can be a dicey task. There is always risk that someone may find the password by simply taking a peak at...
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Meltdown/Spectre: What Every MSP Needs to Know

January 11, 2018 by Luke Orellana
 
What’s all the Fuss About? Meltdown and Spectre have been the internet buzz words recently. These are huge exploits that have been around forever and are just now being discussed in the public media. Many sites explain how these two exploits work, however, the...
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Top 3 Proven Patch Deployment Methods for MSPs

December 21, 2017 by Brian Goda
 
To patch or not to patch, that is the question. No question about it, patch. And patch often. But wait, my application will not work with that new .net update! So, the struggle between security and operations continues… Many engineers would say that if it’s not...