The Closed Beta Project

This episode was recorded at Smith & Howard CPA  We are joined by Martha Raber, enterprise risk services manager at Smith & Howard, Jeff Brown, senior business advisor at Smith & Howard, Jonathan Kyle, security practice manager at Lockstep Technology Group

Martha, Jeff and Jonathan cover all things compliance and the responsibilities businesses have towards their customer and employee security.

To learn more about cybersecurity and managed solutions visit us at lockstepgroup.com
To learn more about Smith & Howard CPA, visit their website at https://www.smith-howard.com/

We are joined by Wes Knight who is the CISO at Georgia Department of Revenue and James Brown, our cybersecurity account executive, about how to build relationships, how the department of revenue plans for the future standards and compliances and the challenges CISO's in SLED face and how those challenges are different from the private sector. 

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In this bonus episode, we talk to Jonathan Kyle, our security practice manager, about email security and steps to take to keep your information secured during the holiday season.

We also talk about ransomware and Disney plus's accounts getting compromised. 

If you're a marketer and curious about creating campaigns that ensure the privacy of your customers, you'd want to tune in. 

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We sat down with our security team, Jonathan Kyle and Eric Shoemaker, to talk about our recent research finding in Kasey's Access Directory weakness.

To learn more about our finding visit our site: https://lockstepgroup.com/blog/abusing-the-kaseya-lan-cache-fsadmin/


* Note: This episode was recorded on October 17th, 2019. Eric Shoemaker has moved on from Lockstep Technology Group and we wish him the best of luck and success in his future role. For questions about our study please email us at [email protected]

This week we are at Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, a prestigious law firm here at Atlanta. 

We sat down with their director of IT, Jason Landers, to talk about technology in the legal field, the role of Director of IT, compliance requirements and how cybersecurity is not just an IT issue. 

This week's guest is Ken Dreon. Ken is one of our founders and a managing partner at Lockstep Technology Group.

Ken talks about Lockstep Technology Group's why, automation and the pace of technology. 

This week, we have a returning guest. Jonathan Kyle, our senior security architect. He joined us at GAMEIS to talk about cybersecurity for schools and protecting sensitive data. 

 Thank you for listening! 



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This episode was recorded live at GAMEIS. GAMEIS is The Georgia Association of Managers of Educational Information Systems.



We sat down with Kim Friends, the VP of E-Rate compliance at CSM Consulting, to talk about the current state of E-Rate and the challenges schools and libraries are facing when applying for E-rate.


You can contact Kim Friends, Vice-President, E-Rate Compliance at [email protected]

E-Rate program is a vital source of support for connectivity to—and within—schools and libraries. In particular, the E-Rate program provides funding for internal connections, which are primarily used for Wi-Fi, a technology that has enabled schools and libraries to transition from computer labs to one-to-one digital learning.


FCC is currently seeking comments in regards to the new proposed rules.
Here is the link to access it online from the Electronic Comments Filing System:
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/070950045522/FCC-19-58A1.pdf


If you have any questions or comments, you can reach us at https://lockstepgroup.com/ 

This week, Lockstep Technology Group is at GAMEIS (The Georgia Association of Managers of Educational Information Systems) and we are recording live from our booth. 

In this episode, we talk to Curt Godwin, network operations coordinator at Forsyth County Schools, about the importance of technology in our classrooms and cybersecurity in schools. 

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Thank you for listening! 

In today's episode, I talk to James Harden who is managing partner at Lockstep Technology Group about his new analytics and optimization tool that is helping various industries, including schools, manage and visuals their data sets. 

"It is essential for IT to provide exceptional service because that's really what our job is. We are customer service. We are providing information to be at the fingertips of the business user so they can grow." - James Harden