After a detailed initial assessment to understand Fair Harbor’s needs, goals, and budget, Macktez recommended a curated set of subscriptions to help manage various aspects of operations.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
Drawing from Ida Benedetto’s extensive use and thoughtful examination of AI, this conversation with Noah Landow aims to shift perspectives from skepticism and fear to informed engagement and practical application. Ida’s approach—rooted in firsthand experience—encourages a more nuanced understanding of what AI can and cannot do.
Sonic Union: Collaborative IT
As a trusted partner to a technically sophisticated company, Macktez has helped to expand Sonic Union’s network capacity, upgrade its server infrastructure, virtualize essential applications, design the network for a new studio, and, crucially, develop and implement data redundancy and internet failover for a shift in storage practices.
Embracing complexity: Lessons from the Victorians
Diane Josefowicz and Noah Landow discuss what the Victorians can teach us through their visions of an electromagnetic microworld, their charmingly complex language of flowers, loquacious letter writing, love of densely textured architecture, and joyously decorated aesthetics.
CrowdStrike outage takeaways for Macktez clients
Macktez does not use or deploy CrowdStrike software, so none of our clients directly suffered from the incident. But could a similar event hit our clients’ systems?
NIST updates its Cybersecurity Framework
Originally released in 2014 and intended primarily for critical infrastructure facilities, the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) has recently been updated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to be more generally applicable to organizations of all sizes and functions.
The surprisingly fascinating story of the American chestnut tree
Join Anna Sproul-Latimer, Founding Partner and President of Neon Literary and member of The American Chestnut Foundation’s Board of Directors, and Noah Landow, Founder and CEO at Macktez, for an informal conversation between a leading technology solutions firm and an expert in another kind of restoration: the startlingly interesting rise, fall, and coming renaissance of the American chestnut tree, a once-ubiquitous species on the East Coast.
Reminder: Public WiFi is not secure
You already know not to trust public WiFi network, right? A vulnerability recently reported affecting VPNs again highlights the uncertainty of working on a network you don’t control.