Meriplex

At 6:40 on a Friday morning, the desk phones at city hall give you a dial tone and nothing else. Outlook won’t open, and the utility payment portal shows an error page residents are already screenshotting for Facebook. Your IT team, all three of you, knows what to do with the servers. The harder question is who can authorize shutting down the entire n...

Ask three security vendors to explain MDR vs EDR and you’ll get three answers, each ending with their own product. That isn’t a conspiracy. It’s marketing, and it leaves IT directors sorting out acronyms that sound interchangeable and aren’t. 

MDR vs EDR is a choice between a service and a tool. EDR (endpoint detection and response) is software ...

A retailer with 40 stores gets one PCI DSS assessment and 40 chances to fail it. Each store is a place where a requirement can quietly stop being true: a terminal nobody inspected, a vendor login nobody turned off, a back-office access point nobody knew existed.

PCI DSS 4.0 for retailers means meeting every requirement of the current sta...

In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline shut down the line that carries roughly 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel, and investigators found no sign the ransomware behind it ever reached the systems that run the pipeline. DarkSide hit the business network. Colonial stopped the flow anyway because nobody could prove where the damage ended, and fuel shortages sp...

Switching healthcare IT providers means moving your managed IT, security, and HIPAA business associate obligations from one MSP to another without losing clinical uptime, control of PHI, or compliance evidence. It makes sense when your MSP keeps missing clinical-down SLAs or c...