Wednesday, June 1, 2011
At Citrix Synergy 2011 in San Francisco, RKON Practice Director Cameron Christo presented with Citrix Netscaler Senior Product Manager Marissa Schmidt about What’s new in NetScaler MPX and VPX. Click here to see the presentation.
Overview
The industry-standard solution for providing load-balancing functionality has become the application delivery controller, or ADC. Besides load balancing, ADCs provide increased application availability, security, performance and visibility. Citrix NetScaler has led the industry with breakthrough performance, integrated security and more recently virtual appliance options. Come find out the latest advancements in ADCs and what NetScaler application delivery networking can do for your application, desktop and server infrastructure. Learn more about RKON’s Citrix practice.
RKON presents with Citrix at Synergy 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
With RKON VCSO, you can experience our full range of security services for a flat, monthly fee. RKON’s VCSO solution encompasses most RKON security services, including the following:
- Security Strategy and Roadmap Development
- Policy, Standards, and Guideline Creation
- Risk Assessment Methodologies
- Security Posture Reviews
- Remediation Progress Reviews
- Hot Topic Gap Analysis
- Penetration Testing
- Participation in Compliance Activities
Monday, April 25, 2011
Register today for RKON Experience at House of Blues with a live performance by MINIKISS. Enjoy a fun night with technology presentations, networking reception, soul food, and drinks, and live music at House of Blues on Monday, May 23. Win retro sunglasses, KISS merchandise, and other fabulous prizes just by walking in the door!
Monday, May 23, 2011
7:00 – 11:00 pm
Venue
House of Blues Chicago, Back Porch Restaurant
329 N Dearborn St, | Chicago, IL 60654 | 312.923.2000 | Get Directions
Agenda
7:00 – 8:00 pm — Networking Reception, Partner tables, Product Demos.
8:00 – 9:00 pm — Security Technology Presentations
9:00 – 11:00 pm — Live performance by the band MINIKISS
MINIKISS
You will hear KISS and Rock music from the 80s. The band will be around after the show to meet and greet and have photos taken. Get a taste for the show by checking out their videos.
Fabulous Door Prizes
Retro Sunglasses, Wristbands, Kiss merchandise, and other prizes for the first 100 to arrive.
Transportation
A bus will shuttle from the Palmer House Hilton (where CPX check-in is scheduled from 5-7 pm) to the House of Blues every 15 minutes starting at 6:45 and ending at 11:15.
Parking
Two parking lots are near the venue (300 N State Street and 60 W. Kinzie Street) and Valet parking is available at the House of Blues.
Technology Partners
Check Point
Riverbed
Websense
Tufin
Crossbeam
eIQ
Learn more about RKON Security Solutions.
Contact Information
Lindsay Ambrose
RKON Technologies
312.654.0300 office | 708.285.4458 mobile
lambrose@rkon.com
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Sign Up for an exclusive VDI Workshop for healthcare IT professionals.
Healthcare challenges such as delivering EMR, compliance, and managing the proliferation of mobile devices have sparked a great deal of interest in VDI. RKON is hosting a one-day event to share common healthcare experiences as well as our own best practices from VDI integrations with a group of healthcare-only IT professionals. The day will begin with whiteboard design session targeted at Architects, and end with a hands-on lab targeted for administrators.
Schedule
Thursday, May 19—Sign Up
Thursday, June 16—Sign Up
Sessions
Session 1: VDI in Healthcare: Whiteboard Design Workshop
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Breakfast included
Target: Architect-level, Strategic design professionals
Topic: Implementation and design experts will build VDI architectures and share best practices for server, storage, network, integration, remote access, and security. We will cover clinician workflows that integrate tap-n-go solutions, smartcards, kiosk stations, and location/context awareness.
Limit to 12 attendees, healthcare only. Facilitated by RKON Lead Architects.
Session 2: VDI in Healthcare: Technical, Hands-on Demo
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch included
Target: Technical-level, Healthcare IT professionals
Topic: See how desktops and applications can be delivered as a service to any healthcare user, on any device. Preview features of Citrix XenDesktop 5 and the new concurrent licensing model. We will demo clinician workflows and other common use cases in healthcare.
Limit to 12 attendees, healthcare only. Facilitated by RKON Lead Architects.
Lab Location
RKON Lab
820 W. Jackson, Ste. 550
Chicago, IL 60607
312.654.0300
solutions@rkon.com
Learn more about RKON Virtual Desktop Solutions.
Monday, April 4, 2011
The world’s biggest Email Service Provider, Epsilon, has suffered a serious security breach, compromising the customer lists and email addresses of some high-profile companies. They send 40 billion email messages a year on behalf of customers like Kroger, TiVo, US Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, Citi, and others. SecurityWeek is maintaining a list of affected companies on their website.
What does this mean?
There will be more spam to the compromised addresses. We can also expect a significant uptick in targeted phishing attacks, especially for the financial service companies’ customers.
Epsilon’s customers, and the financial companies in particular, may be demanding swift action from law enforcement. The end users should assume the cat is out of the bag and react accordingly. According to RKON Network Security Consultant Michael Atkinson, “Any email purporting to come from one of the companies whose customer email addresses were compromised should be viewed with caution, if not outright suspicion. Emphasize to your end users that they should not call any phone numbers, follow any links, or respond to any such email. Instead, they should go directly to the company’s log-on page or call them using the number on the back of your card.”
Contact RKON for further information.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Along with RSA being targeted in a Cyber Attack, PHP.net, Comodo, MySQL.com, and Sun.com have all been compromised in the last two weeks. MySQL.com was compromised by a blind SQL injection. To learn more, read these articles at MySQL.com or InfoWorld.com.
According to RKON Senior Security Architect Chris Serafin, “these attacks against high-profile targets are indicative of how the threat environment continues to change and evolve.” Contact RKON today to learn how our security services and vulnerability testing can help protect your organization from these threats.
Friday, March 18, 2011
RSA reported that their security systems identified an extremely sophisticated cyber attack being mounted against them. They are taking a variety of aggressive measures against the threat to protect their business and their customers. At this time, they have no evidence showing that customer security related to RSA products has been impacted.
According to RKON Network Security Consultant Michael Atkinson, “In order to successfully defeat SecurID without physical possession of a token, an attacker would need to have RSA’s algorithm, the random “seed” used by a specific token, the username associated with that token, the user’s PIN, and the correct time. To the best of my knowledge, RSA has not stated what information was compromised, but in the worst case scenario where the attackers had the algorithm and the seeds for each of your tokens, they still would not have the correct username and PIN associated with each token. That information is not in RSA’s possession and could not have been compromised by the reported attack.”
RKON will stay on top of this issue and inform you of any news. For more information visit the RSA website or contact RKON.
Friday, February 18, 2011
In today’s ever changing technology market, the lines are often blurred between actual technology and marketing. In some cases, that line is so blurred that it’s hard to tell what matters and what does not. For example, ICA messaging turns into HDX which sprouts into Nitro, and Mach 3, all the while we are still talking about the ICA protocol.
Similar blurry messaging surrounds Citrix FlexCast. However, the technology behind it, and most importantly the flexibility of that technology, is truly impressive. To be clear, FlexCast is all about desktop virtualization. So, let’s first discuss the meaning around desktop virtualization, then the meaning around Flexcast, and finally uncover why FlexCast matters. Read the Tech Brief.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
RKON Sales Director Jeff Laurinaitis was quoted in a December 20 article in Business Wire. The article shared the results of Sourcefire’s Global Partner Advisory council meeting, which identified next-Generation IPS, Next-Generation Firewall, and Virtualization as customers’ top priorities for 2011 and beyond. To read the entire article, including Jeff’s insight on increased adoption of Virtualization, click here.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Don’t wait until it is too late. RKON is ready to assist you in your upgrade to R75 before R65 Support ends in March 2011. Our upgrade service is designed to provide a simple and complete option for Check Point users to upgrade to the newest release of the Check Point software. All work will be performed by highly experienced and trained Check Point-certified RKON engineers.
RKON R71 Upgrade services include:
- Consultation: Initial consultation with an RKON pre-sales engineer to determine requirements and schedule the work to be performed.
- Upgrade: Upgrade of the covered Check Point device(s) to version R71.
- Verification: Testing and verification of successful upgrade.
- Documentation: RKON Technologies will provide you with documentation of the current configuration and design.
- Training: The RKON Technologies engineer will provide a basic walkthrough orientation of the new software and feature set available with the software version.
- Support: One month of RKON Technologies Check Point software support.
