Why Infrastructure Monitoring is Critical to Your Business
What is Infrastructure Monitoring? Infrastructure monitoring refers to the collection and review of information on infrastructure components to measure performance and efficiency. It gauges how healthy a system is by collecting the performance information and data from servers, databases, [...]
Emergency Help for Fortinet Ransomware & Cyber Breach Recovery
FortiOS Ransomware and Cyber Breach Vulnerabilities are Back! Fortinet is again the target of hackers, ransomware hackers specifically. Fortinet’s big problem is a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS. We have seen that it is already leading to breached [...]
Alvaka is Named a 2022 Top Workplace for 2nd Year in a Row
Orange County Register Names Alvaka a Winner of the Orange County Top Workplaces 2022 Award Irvine, California December 09, 2022 - For the second consecutive year, Alvaka is named a 2022 Top Workplace, an honor awarded by The Orange [...]
ALVAKA – Celebrating 40 Years!
After 40 years in business, Alvaka Networks is now simply Alvaka! As a recognized market leader and pioneering IT managed services provider, our success has centered on our ability to innovate new ideas and continue our investment in the [...]
Why Ransomware Targets Education and Healthcare Sectors
Nowadays, tech and ransomware go hand in hand. Hackers look for two characteristics when they scope out their next target: first, an organization or individual with valuable information and assets; and second, someone who is fairly easy to attack. [...]
U.S. Department of State’s $10M Bounty on Conti Ransomware
The U.S. Department of State announced last week that it is offering a $10,000,000 bounty for information on the identification or location of five highly ranked members of Wizard Spider, the Conti ransomware syndicate. Since the emergence of Conti in [...]
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.
