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HP – Hewlett Packard Partner

April 13, 2012

HP / Hewlett-Packard, a renown manufacturer of computers, servers, switches, printers and more. By partnering with HP, we are able to provide the highest level of support possible to our clients as well as providing sales of HP products at reasonable prices.

HP offers a large assortment of IT components and services, which we are able to provide at reasonable rates.

A few offerings:

Computer – Notebook, laptop, mini netbook, ultra portable, desktop, all-in-one, graphic workstation, tablet, mobile

Server – File server, blade server, micro server

Network – Switch, router, storage, backup

Other – Printer, all-in-one, monitor

Whatever your need for business or even small home office, HP probably has the product.

We are happy to offer sales, support, service & repair of HP products and services in Greenville / Upstate SC. Please call 864.990.4748 or use our handy CONTACT form for more information!

AVTECH Server Room Monitoring Partner

April 12, 2012

We are your Greenville / Upstate AVTECH partner offering consultation, sales and support of server room temperature, humidity, intrusion detection monitoring systems.

Environment Monitoring in computer rooms, data centers and other facilities has become a critical part of ‘Disaster Prevention’ for professional managers everywhere. The reason is that a typical IT infrastructure supports the entire organization. Without continued operation of IT resources, an organization may have no access to information, databases, email or the internet. Even worse, an organization may appear ‘out of business’, ‘unstable’ or simply ‘irrelevant’.

The most common environment problems encountered in today’s IT facilities are air conditioning and power failure. Air conditioning failure can lead to high temperatures, high or low humidity, water flooding and more. Power failure can lead to costly network, server, and website downtime – nevermind the cost to replace or fix expensive systems. Extreme temperature changes due to heating or cooling equipment failure and even seasonal changes can damage hardware, threaten uptime, block network access and destroy data. During downtime, ongoing costs continue to accrue while more and more profits are lost. Thankfully, there are easy, inexpensive and proven solutions available from AVTECH to prevent environment caused disasters.

Consider The Facts:

Failure of a primary or backup air conditioner is a major threat in any data center. It is the #1 cause of overheating and environment related downtime.

The power consumption used by the typical data center rose 39% over the last 5 years.

Given the average power consumption in a data center today, if cooling is lost, temperatures will rise from 68° F to over 85° F in approximately 8.6 minutes.

For every 18 degree rise in temperature above 68° F, servers lose approximately 50% of their reliability.

61% of data centers say downtime was due to environmental issues 1X in the past 12 months and 23% say that it caused downtime 5X in the past 12 months all lasting anywhere between 1/2 and 3 days.

On average, 45% of downtime incidents will cost $10,000 or more.

AVTECH offers Room Alert and TemPageR solutions for IT & facilities temperature and environment monitoring. These solutions save billions of dollars each year for organizations worldwide by allowing them to monitor temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke, room entry, air flow and more in their computer rooms, data centers and/or other facilities where expensive equipment is housed. Users can log and graph data, send alerts when conditions change, take automatic action to shutdown servers or start back up systems when issues occur; all managed through a web interface via a single IP address. All monitors include a FREE license for AVTECH’s powerful Device ManageR software for advanced discovery, management, monitoring, logging, alerting, automatic corrective and more.
Protect Your IT Facility… Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late!

Call us at 864.990.4748 or use our handy CONTACT form to get more information!

Symantec Registered Partner

April 11, 2012

Symantec is the leading provider of business backup & archival software such as Backup Exec, Endpoint Protection like Norton, and messaging security (Brightmail).

As a partner, we can offer your business these products and the continued support and licensing your company needs.

Whether your company requires one seat or ten thousand seats, we can provide for your license needs. Contact us today at 864.990.4748 or use our CONTACT form or visit our Symantec Showcase for highlights of products.

SECURE IT ALERT: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-101A covers MS patches

April 10, 2012

Homeland Secure IT Alert

Homeland Secure IT Alert for Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

This is from the US-CERT team, reposted as received. If you require assistance with these Microsoft security updates, or any others, please call upon us at 864.990.4748 or use our handy CONTACT form.

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National Cyber Awareness System

Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-101A

Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities

Original release date: April 10, 2012

Last revised: —

Source: US-CERT

Systems Affected

* Microsoft Windows

* Microsoft Internet Explorer

* Microsoft .NET Framework

* Microsoft Office

* Microsoft Server Software

* Microsoft SQL Server

* Microsoft Developer Tools

* Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway

Overview

There are multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet

Explorer, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Office, Microsoft

Server Software, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Developer Tools,

and Microsoft Forefront United Access Gateway. Microsoft has

released updates to address these vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2012 describes

multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Microsoft has

released updates to address the vulnerabilities.

Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code,

cause a denial of service, or gain unauthorized access to your

files or system.

Solution

Apply updates

Microsoft has provided updates for these vulnerabilities in the

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2012, which describes

any known issues related to the updates. Administrators are

encouraged to note these issues and test for any potentially

adverse effects. In addition, administrators should consider using

an automated update distribution system such as Windows Server

Update Services (WSUS). Home users are encouraged to enable

automatic updates.

References

* Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2012 –

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-apr>

* Microsoft Windows Server Update Services –

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx>

* Microsoft Update – <https://www.update.microsoft.com/>

* Microsoft Update Overview –

<http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/mu.aspx>

* Turn Automatic Updating On or Off –

<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Turn-automatic-updating-on-or-off>

Revision History

April 10, 2012: Initial release

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Feedback can be directed to US-CERT Technical Staff. Please send

email to <cert@cert.org> with “TA12-101A Feedback VU#507275” in

the subject.

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Produced by US-CERT, a government organization.

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This product is provided subject to the Notification as indicated here:

http://www.us-cert.gov/legal.html#notify

This document can also be found at

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-101A.html

For instructions on subscribing to or unsubscribing from this mailing list, visit http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html

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WatchGuard Technologies Registered Partner

April 10, 2012

We’re a WatchGuard Technologies Registered Partner offering sales, installation and support of all WatchGuard security products and services including firewall, email and web security, data loss prevention and UTM and various other small business security solutions.

For more information, please call 864.990.4748 or use our CONTACT form.

SNOM Registered VAR

April 10, 2012

snom – SIP based IP phone sales, service, support and consultation in Greenville / Upstate, SC

Homeland Secure IT is a registered Value Added Reseller of snom products, providing state of the art VoIP handsets for use with a variety of Voice over IP solutions.

If you would like more information about snom phones and devices, please call us at 864.990.4748 or contact us via the CONTACT form.

Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner

April 9, 2012

Microsoft Registered Partners are closely aligned with Microsoft to stay current with the latest Microsoft technology and serve customers more effectively. Microsoft Registered Partners encompass a broad range of expertise and vendor affiliations and their real world perspective can help you prioritize and effectively deliver your technology solutions.

As a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, we are specially positioned to help Small and Medium sized businesses with their Microsoft needs, whether it is a server, workstation, mobile device, or cloud based solution such as MS Office Live 365.

A few current technologies:

Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft Office for Mac
Microsoft Server 2008 / R2
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft Small Business Server 2011
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Lync
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Microsoft Hypervisor

If you need to purchase one seat or one thousand seats through Microsoft licensing, we can help with that.

We are your Greenville / Upstate SC Microsoft sales, support and consultation solution provider!

Call us at 864.990.4748 or email us via the CONTACT form.

Happy Easter from all of us at Homeland Secure IT

April 8, 2012

Happy Easter from Homeland Secure IT & The Hoyts

For those of you reading our blog in email, you are receiving this a day late and a dollar short, but the sentiment is the same.

The staff at Homeland Secure IT want to wish you a very happy Easter. We hope you were able to spend time with your family, and that you know that the real meaning behind Easter has nothing to do with bunnies, eggs, or candy.

Have a great week, for He has risen!

(The graphic is something we did a few years ago with real chocolate bunnies. They were good if I remember correctly)

SECURE IT ALERT: Microsoft to unleash updates for April that address 4 critical vulnerabilities

April 5, 2012

Secure IT Alert for Thrusday, April 05, 2012

Coming your way right after Easter – Security updates from Microsoft!

This information is from the Microsoft Security Advance Notification for April 2012:

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2012

Issued: April 5, 2012

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This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on April 10, 2012.

The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2012 can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms12-apr.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the April bulletin summary on April 10, 2012. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/advance.

To receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft Security Bulletins are issued, subscribe to Microsoft Technical Security Notifications on http://technet.microsoft.com/security/dd252948.aspx.

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins on April 11, 2012, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register for the Security Bulletin Webcast at http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin.

Microsoft also provides information to help customers prioritize monthly security updates with any non-security, high-priority updates that are being released on the same day as the monthly security updates. Please see the section, Other Information.

This advance notification provides a number as the bulletin identifier, because the official Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers are not issued until release. The bulletin summary that replaces this advance notification will have the proper Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers (in the MSyy-xxx format) as the bulletin identifier. The security bulletins for this month are as follows, in order of severity:

Critical Security Bulletins

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Bulletin 1

– Affected Software:

– Windows XP Service Pack 3:

– Internet Explorer 6

– Internet Explorer 7

– Internet Explorer 8

– Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2:

– Internet Explorer 6

– Internet Explorer 7

– Internet Explorer 8

– Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2:

– Internet Explorer 6

– Internet Explorer 7

– Internet Explorer 8

– Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2:

– Internet Explorer 6

– Internet Explorer 7

– Internet Explorer 8

– Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems:

– Internet Explorer 6

– Internet Explorer 7

– Windows Vista Service Pack 2:

– Internet Explorer 7

– Internet Explorer 8

– Internet Explorer 9

– Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2:

– Internet Explorer 7

– Internet Explorer 8

– Internet Explorer 9

– Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2:

– Internet Explorer 7