HTS Blog

Village of Countryside – Life in the Fast Lane – May 2015

May 15th, 2015

The Village of Countryside in preparing their network infrastructure for technology upgrades made the first step by replacing their structured wiring to accommodate the higher data rates of future appliances.

The Village Hall and Police station data wire was all older Cat 5E. The decision was made to rewire the buildings with Cat 6. Cat 6 provides a higher signal-to-noise ratio, allowing higher reliability for current applications and higher data rates for future applications.

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March 10th, 2015

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Please join me in congratulating Cassandra on her significant milestone achievement

March 9th, 2015

It will be 15 years tomorrow since the very YOUNG Miss Niebauer walked through our doors and changed our world forever

Cassie as our Operations Manager is our HTS HUB, center gear – that everything flows around and through

Every sale, contract, customer, employee, bill, PO and even car repair comes across her desk and through her hands

WE love you Cas – Happy Anniversary!

Thanks for every little thing you do here for all of us

Lead the path to IT innovation today Windows Server 2003 support is ending July 14, 2015

March 3rd, 2015

1. Discover

Determine which applications and workloads are running on Windows Server 2003 today.

2. Assess

Categorize applications and workloads by type, importance, and degree of complexity.

Are you in PCI compliance with the new policies for 2015?

March 2nd, 2015

New requirements in PCI DSS 3.0 include:

Methodology-based penetration testing to verify that the methods used to segment the merchant cardholder data environment (CDE) from other IT infrastructure
Inventory of all hardware and software components within the cardholder data environment
Documentation detailing which requirements are managed by third-party vendors vs.

SEEING SEWAGE IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT

January 9th, 2015

Lockport IL -The City of Lockport sewage treatment plant needed a way to monitor the entrances to the plant both on site and remotely.  One of the challenges was the extreme distance from the main building to the back entrance.  The current camera system was pointed in the general direction of the rear entrance but could not produce any useable images of those entering and leaving the plant, causing a security risk.