Impact of Cyber Attacks on Water Infrastructure

We hear a lot about critical infrastructure and how important it is to secure it. But few categories of infrastructure are more critical to human existence than water and wastewater processing and transport systems. Next to the air we [...]

2023-01-31T15:06:09-08:00January 12th, 2023|

Why Healthcare Entities Should Invest in Robust Cybersecurity

Healthcare organizations are under attack from all sides of their businesses. We are seeing a major increase in directed ransomware and other cyber-attacks on a variety of healthcare organizations and their partners. These attacks are crippling operations, while also [...]

2023-01-12T20:03:08-08:00January 10th, 2023|

Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions: Tool vs Service

The backend system of every organization is complex and unique, so it can be challenging to find the right IT infrastructure monitoring solution that works with one’s network and systems. There are two main ways to implement infrastructure monitoring: [...]

2022-12-30T13:46:04-08:00December 30th, 2022|

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, [...]

2023-01-17T11:17:50-08:00December 29th, 2022|

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 [...]

2023-02-20T20:58:50-08:00December 15th, 2022|

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 [...]

2023-02-20T21:55:16-08:00December 9th, 2022|

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 [...]

2022-12-09T14:52:05-08:00December 1st, 2022|

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. [...]

2022-12-16T17:41:34-08:00November 21st, 2022|

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 [...]

2022-12-15T00:57:47-08:00August 24th, 2022|

OFAC Sanctions Cryptocurrency Mixer Tornado Cash

What is Tornado Cash? A virtual cryptocurrency mixer on the Ethereum blockchain, Tornado Cash was officially sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on August 8th, 2022. The platform works to facilitate [...]

2022-09-09T18:43:16-07:00August 19th, 2022|