As COVID-19 (Coronavirus) continues to disrupt and create uncertainty in our daily lives and business, Alvaka Networks wants to focus on helping companies keep their employees, community, and businesses safe by educating and assisting in remote work strategies. Alvaka continually aims to provide organizations with the knowledge and direction you need to ensure your IT investments are valuably aligned with your business objectives, thus supporting a culture of innovation and success.
Since COVID-19 has officially been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, organizations must now implement some type of response plan, which will likely involve a remote work element. However, with remote working comes increased cybersecurity challenges and risks that need to be addressed at all organizational levels. Already, cyber crime is seeing an increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic and experts predict it may heighten ransomware attacks and disrupt response efforts across industries. See article, “Ransomware attacks poised to disrupt coronavirus response efforts.”
As a way to kick start your planning efforts, we have launched a Remote Work Readiness Self-Assessment to assist you in measuring, monitoring and managing your plan. The results from this assessment will guide you in developing your plan for remote worker access by outlining where to focus your efforts. The assessment takes less than five minutes to complete and will generate a personalized report that will be emailed to you. The report will provide necessary background information and highlight some specific issues that can be quickly fixed for more immediate improvements. The report will be separated into five different sections relating to your remote worker readiness.
If you have questions or need guidance after you reviewing your report, an Alvaka Networks team member will be available to assist you. You can reach us at (949) 428-5000 or at sales@alvaka.net.
We hope that you and your loved ones are safe and are taking precautions to protect your health. Our hearts go out to all affected individuals and families around the world.
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Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.