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Protecting against ransomware requires up-to-date operating systems

The WannaCry malware attack last month has woken up business leaders to the importance of keeping computer operating systems up to date. Companies across industries were affected by the ransomware attack, in which users’ data was held hostage. The business disruptions were severe in some cases, but the greater lesson from this episode is how much worse it could have been if a “kill switch” hadn’t been discovered relatively soon after the attack. 

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Concurrency Named to CRN’s 2017 Solution Provider 500 List (CRN SP500)

Concurrency, Inc., a Microsoft Partner of the Year-winning professional services firm, has been named to CRN’s 2017 Solution Provider 500 List. CRN is a brand of The Channel Company. The annual CRN SP500 List has served as the industry’s standard for recognition of the most successful technology integrators, solution providers and IT consultants in North America by revenue.

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Fool me once-shame on the hacker. Fool me twice-shame on me!

In May, at least 200,000 organizations in 150 countries including hospitals, transformation systems and factories were infected with “WanaCrypt0r” ransomware-malware, a self-spreading virus which took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft server and desktop operating systems. 

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Concurrency speakers dominate Midwest Management Summit 2017

Concurrency will send a group of speakers to this year’s annual Midwest Management Summit in Minneapolis. The Summit is a 4-day conference purposely sized to just 750 to ensure maximum experience for attendees.

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