You may have heard that Clutch Solutions has membership in TribalNet, a professional organization dedicated to “bringing tribes, tribal employees and resources together.” But what is TribalNet exactly, and what does that mean for you? What Is TribalNet? More than two decades old, TribalNet is the premier IT clearinghouse connecting Native American nations or tribes, their employees and their resources. Whether members are looking for professional development, business connections or advice about solutions and best practices, TribalNet is the place to learn more. Read on →

You may have heard about “zero trust” security policies. What are they exactly? When are they important? And how can you implement zero trust without making access to essential programs and functions overly cumbersome to your team members? Let’s talk through this important concept and distill it into useable information. What Is Zero Trust? It’s not a new concept—in fact, “zero trust” has been gaining traction for some years now. Read on →

In the second half of November, Cisco announced a Webex fix to keep hackers out of meetings, Ars Technica reports. The Webex vulnerabilities allowed people to silently join meetings with just about full guest capabilities (listening, watching, recording, chatting, sharing screens), keep listening to the meetings after being discovered and ejected by the moderator, and obtain the names, email address and IP addresses of other meeting participants. That’s scary. Armed with that information, a miscreant could spoof email and IP addresses and wreak havoc in a work setting, especially when trying to perform exploits against work-from-home staff. Read on →

You probably throw the word “team” around a lot when you’re talking about your colleagues and employees. So do we. But for Clutch Solutions, “team” has an extra nuance. When you work with a really powerful VAR, you don’t just get a bunch of hardware—you get new team members to give you a deeper bench and a more powerful set of skills. That’s all without having to hire additional IT staff. Read on →

…technically speaking, that is. We know everyone needs a good alarm clock, a fuzzy blanket and an ever-full coffee pot. But this blog focuses on the technical requirements that can make work-from-home either fabulous or a great big flop. First, let’s talk about your strategic approach. We now know pandemics can happen at any time—and can be majorly disruptive. Forward-thinking companies need to be ready to move to a distributed work environment and stay in a remote posture for long periods of time. Read on →

Maybe you’re starting a regional logistics company. Or perhaps you’re expanding your medical practice to include new offices and partners. You know you don’t just want to order a bunch of computers from Amazon and try to set them up yourself. Nor do you want to invest in a large IT shop, if information technology isn’t one of your company’s core competencies. No matter whether your business involves healthcare informatics or customer outreach and retention, if you rely on robust, secure, well-integrated IT systems, you need expert partnership as you build, maintain and secure your platforms. Read on →

It may have only been a 5-year-old-sized headache when Zoom went down for a couple of hours in late August, bringing home-based learning to a halt. But multiply each student Zooming from home by a parent or two. Throw in all the teachers and school administrators getting worried emails and phone calls from those parents. The individual inconvenience may have been small, but the cumulative time sink easily numbered into the tens of millions of hours. Read on →

What’s keeping CTOs up in 2020? There’s a long list, but among the main issues keeping many CTOs from resting easy on their pillows is cloud security. It’s not hard to see why. According to Fugue’s “State of Cloud Security” survey, most cloud engineering teams are now working from home, and of those, 84% are worried about how the swift transition to distributed work might lend itself to security vulnerabilities. Read on →