August, 2025

It’s hard to believe that an easily guessable password and not having MFA enabled for one account could sink a 158-year-old business. That’s exactly what recently happened to a British transport company called KNP. The BBC is reporting that a gang of cyber attackers gained access to KNPs systems by simply guessing an employee’s password. With no MFA or other security policies enabled, the hackers easily encrypted the company’s data and locked its internal systems.

February, 2025

Starting a small business is scary. Statistics show that most fail within only a few years. Somehow my boss, Ron Braatz, President of LiftOff, has defied the odds. This month, Ron’s Microsoft cloud technology group is celebrating its 15^th birthday. Woo hoo!

January, 2025

Greetings and Happy 2025! We hope your New Year’s celebrations were joyous!

To kick off the new year, we want to take you back to 1985. That was the year Back to the Future arrived in movie theaters, the Live Aid concert raised over $100 million for famine relief in Africa, and, infamously, the year Coca-Cola changed their recipe, introducing "New Coke." 

December, 2024

Are you an IT admin that’s been reading about the GCC High and wondering about your organization’s compliance obligations? Perhaps you’re a local government concerned with CJIS? Maybe you’re a government contractor managing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and need to be complying with federal benchmarks like CMMC, DFARS and ITAR.