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Aaron Sipes joined Innovative as a full-time systems technician in January 2018 after a successful internship with the team in the Spring of 2017. Aaron earned his associate’s degree in Cybersecurity from Hagerstown Community College in December of 2017. He also holds a Certificate in Advanced Network Security from Hagerstown Community College. He is a Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT), and holds CompTIA Cloud+, and Cisco On-Premise Networking & Cloud Solutions certifications.
By:
Aaron Sipes
February 26th, 2020
You've just finished a long report in Word or a presentation that needs to be put together by tomorrow in PowerPoint, hit save, and… your computer freezes on you. Unsure as to why you restart your computer only to see nothing happen. No logon screen, no report, no presentation, nothing. Whether it be due to the operating system or faulty hardware, you're without a computer. What do you do?
Cybersecurity | Threat Prevention
By:
Aaron Sipes
February 27th, 2019
It happens quite often – someone points out to you that they’ve received a strange email from this person or that person, or maybe even you. Of course, you don’t remember sending that email and why would you include the need to pay an invoice in it for a co-worker? Spam and spoofed emails are a common way hackers and malicious programs penetrate business networks, and are nearly impossible to prevent on a global basis for a given network. However, there are precautions that significantly decrease the volume of malicious emails and educate users on how to handle those that make their way into their inboxes.