In this interview on Chicago’s #1 news radio station, Chi Networks CEO Sanjiv Bawa states that cyber security today requires proper IT system design plus the constant monitoring of automated tools by technicians who really understand how hackers work.
There are only so many ways human beings can be careless, rushed or foolish on the Internet. Ransomware exploits them all and occasionally discovers new ones as well. But the finite number of human weaknesses is key to the best defenses against the most widespread form of cybercrime: education and good old common sense.
Motivating Security-Resistant Employees to Protect Office Data IT professionals lose sleep over security-resistant colleagues who just don’t get it when it comes to protecting office data. We’ve found that these employees are likely to be just as baffled about protecting their personal data. When this happens, office data protection (like charity itself) may begin at […]
Who was behind the August, 2016 Democratic National Committee hack? And who was behind recent hacks of Colin Powell’s emails and the health records of Russian Olympic athletes? On September 15, 2016, Chi Networks CEO Sanjiv Bawa was interviewed on these government-related cybersecurity topics by WTTW’s Eddie Arruza on Chicago Public TV’s Chicago Tonight program. […]
It’s well known that passwords are being stolen and sold by the tens and even hundreds of millions on the dark web. It’s also well known that the carelessness of device users is responsible for most of these crimes. Here we discuss two mindsets – resistant and adaptive – towards the secure and (fairly) user-friendly […]
Big data will “transform every single job in the world” says Forbes magazine big data columnist Bernard Marr. And we agree. Yet not every single employer out there is aware of this coming transformation. To narrow the awareness gap a bit, here are five stunning examples of data visualization’s amazing power to display statistical information […]
Chi Networks Successfully Completes Fifth Successive SSAE-16 Type II Audit Today Chi Networks CEO Sanjiv Bawa announced that his company has been awarded SSAE-16 Type II Compliance for the year 2016. This attestation resulted from a comprehensive audit of the company’s financial systems and control and business practices conducted according to rigorous standards for service […]
Credit card transactions. Tax returns. Employment records. Patient health records. Every day, there’s a new scam to steal your personal information from companies that you trust as a customer or employee. Here, Chi Networks founder and CEO Sanjiv Bawa explains why it’s important to build security into data networks early on and why you should […]
Looking for a free Nagios 4 package download? You just found it. At Chi Networks we are heavy users of Nagios packages, which we offer both prebuilt and custom-configured, as our Customers require. This enables us to meet a demand for prebuilt Nagios packages that has existed since 2013, when Nagios stopped releasing its prebuilt […]
On Feb 17 Chi Networks CEO Sanjiv Bawa was interviewed about the then-breaking FBI/Apple iPhone encryption controversy by Chicago radio legend Steve Dahl on WLS 890. To hear the full interview, click on the start arrow of the above audio link. The 9-minute discussion focused on implications for cell phone users and on Mr. Bawa’s […]
Chi Networks CEO Sanjiv Bawa Interviewed on WBBM Noon Business Hour Feb 17 On Feb 17 Chi Networks founder and CEO Sanjiv Bawa was interviewed about the then-breaking FBI/Apple iPhone encryption controversy on WBBM NewsRadio 780’s Noon Business Hour. To hear the full interview, click on the start arrow of the above audio link. This […]
Patch management has evolved from utter obscurity to critical problem in the span of a few years, with a plethora of automated patch management tools now on the market to handle the threat. That’s good news, for these tools have become indispensable to effective patch management. That said, automation will never replace the human factor […]
What happened when Chi Networks got CAD running securely (and affordably) in the cloud for 1st Peak Manufacturing, a supplier of custom-designed parts for defense and other high-security industries? Productivity zoomed. Because designers for 1st Peak and its clients were now working securely and in real time from all locations.
