TRUMBULL SCHOOLS UPGRADE SECURITY WITH PALO ALTO NETWORKS
Trumbull Public Schools is a highly rated, public school district located in southwestern Connecticut. Trumbull has 6,600 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1. Educational technology and the infrastructure to support and protect 10,000 wired and wireless end user devices is challenging for any organization or CIO. Trumbull Public […]
Seymour Blocks Russian Hackers
Law enforcement statistics tell us that professional burglars case an area or neighborhood prior to selecting high value targets with low risk. Digital burglars from Russia and elsewhere also prefer anonymity, concealment and time to test the target defenses and case networks for high value personal data like social security numbers, driver licenses, birth dates, […]
Who Owns the Problem?
When infrequent power outages occur, the usual response is to check the street lights, contact your neighbor, or make a visual inspection of the power line on the street. Unless the outage originates inside your home or office, the next call is to the electric utility that owns the problem. Ownership of network or internet […]
Is Your Network Secure?
Are You Sure? A recent survey of 400 business organizations concluded that 71% of respondents reported at least one cyber breach in the past year (2017). Seventy-seven percent (77%) of respondents reported tangible loss (monetary, legal action, loss of customer) from a security incident. Assess your organization’s cybersecurity risk with a free Security Lifecycle Review […]
Transforming Public Infrastructure? The Private Sector Can Help
A deluge of web based consumer applications like Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Amazon and other industry disrupting technologies raise the question, how and when will technology transform our public institutions? Connecticut schools, town halls, public libraries, public higher education institutions and civic organizations have used computers and electronic databases for years but institutional transformation has lagged […]
DBO Turns Up Internet Access Service for Norwalk Police Department
The Norwalk Police Department has upgraded Internet Access (IA) using Digital BackOffice managed Internet Gateway services (DBO Internet Gateway). Norwalk Police Department Deputy Chief Ashley Gonzalez, spearheaded efforts to improve internet access for the police department after numerous reports of unreliable and slow internet service. “After replacing the previous cable internet service with DBO, the response time to […]
NORWALK AWARDS TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONTRACT
May 27, 2016 Mayor Harry Rilling announced today that the City of Norwalk has again awarded Advanced Corporate Networking, dba, Digital BackOffice, the contract to manage the City’s Metropolitan Area Network (MAN.) Mayor Rilling explained, “Digital Back office will continue to work with our Information Technology Department, managing the City’s 24-7-365 telecommunications network. This network […]
Branford Public Schools Upgrade WAN to 10 Gigabits
April 21, 2016 – Branford Public Schools has increased internet bandwidth between buildings to 10 Gigabits per second after renewing a contract with Digital BackOffice. “The primary intent of upgrading the school district WAN is to facilitate the full integration of technology into the learning process, as well as to support on-line testing and the […]
New Haven Public Libraries Have a New Gig (abit) Network
April 11, 2016 New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp and New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) Director Martha Brogan announced today – to coincide with the start of National Library Week – that high-speed broadband internet access and improved Wi-Fi service is now available at the Ives Main Library and at all four of […]
DBO Upgrades Stamford Public School WAN to 10 Gig
November 1, 2014 Digital BackOffice announced today that the Stamford Public Schools fiber wide area network has been upgraded to 10 Gigabit Ethernet speed between buildings. “The primary intent of upgrading the school district WAN to a 10 Gigabit backbone is to provide a significant increase in bandwidth to facilitate the distribution of online educational content and […]
