May 15, 2019 – Symposit LLC announced today that it has become a partner with a leading IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud services provider, DigitalOcean. With the vision of consistently integrating the best cloud and IT services and solutions to its clients, Symposit LLC continuously innovates to keep up with the latest trends in IT; to provide
Certbot – Upgrading outdated version and renewing Let’s Encrypt certificates
We recently ran into an issue where certbot was outdated and needed to upgraded to a newer version. In this process, we issued new Let’s Encrypt certificates, however it was only doing this for the www version of the site, rather than the non-www version of the site. This was a problem since all requests
Rackspace – Resetting the root user password from rescue mode
I was searching for these instructions the other day as I’ve almost never had success resetting the root password from Rackspace’s GUI. Since Rackspace suddenly decided not to host a community forum anymore (whhyyyy?!) we’re posting these original instructions here for those that need the reference: Resetting the root user password from rescue mode Thank
Website Security Trends: November 2018
This month we are seeing something a little unusual in terms of malicious traffic- most of the time we see attacks originated in China or Russia however the activity we are seeing is originating primarily from the Philippines and some attacks from France. As a reminder, you should always use a very strong password (preferably
Symposit modernizes DC consulting firm’s network using Ubiquiti SDN
Challenge: The client requested that Symposit assess the internal network and to modernize it in order to make it more secure, manageable, and of course faster. Since there was no one to properly manage the network, there was no visibility and hence no security within the network. Additionally, the aging network stack was implemented over
US Govt Tracking Sheet for Foreign Tech Companies
We have created the Google sheet for tracking purposes as it relates to the recent slew of foreign technology companies that have been barred or are considered being barred from use by the US Government, either by one or multiple agencies. Commercial and private sector organizations may want to consider this guidance as well when
Transitioning from a file-server to the cloud
Symposit was recently tasked by a client to develop a strategy to migrate away from a legacy file server that the company used internally to collaborate, share large files, and store sensitive corporate data. We knew that the server was aging and the goal was to get rid of having a server altogether. Thus, we
Symposit Founder, Bobby Bermudez, to serve on Board of Directors for Byte Back
WASHINGTON D.C. 5/3/2018 – Symposit LLC President and Founder, Bobby Bermudez, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for Byte Back, a D.C. based non-profit with a mission to improve economic opportunity by providing computer training and career preparation to under-served Washington, DC metro area residents. By serving on the Board, Bobby will actively
Defend against Hackers with Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM)
Even as businesses continue to invest in improving their technology infrastructure, they face the ever-present threat of IT failure known as downtime, any time that vital systems become unresponsive. Collectively, these periods of network inactivity cost businesses an estimated 127 million person-hours every year in lost productivity. NetworkWorld cites research firm Gartner placing the value of just one hour of
Control your privacy by managing advertising choices.
One of the best ways to manage your privacy is to manage and opt-out of advertising personalization settings for the browser that you most frequently use. This is especially helpful on mobile devices where targeted ads will annoy you and potentially expose your personal habits to marketers and ad agencies. Today we will share some