Stormwind Studios uses proprietary technologies to provide live, interactive IT training courses online in technologies such as Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, CompTIA, ITIL, AWS, cybersecurity, project management, and more. Our blog aims to share the goings-on at StormWind Studios, as well as industry news, blog posts, and some fun stuff, too.
Dan Young
We’re excited to have all of our Admins and Managers participating in today’s Challenge! Today’s task involves thinking and performing reconnaissance like a hacker. For current participants in the challenge, what did you think of the first task? Was this something you’d thought of before? Missed you this time? We’d love to have you participate […] Read More
Dan Goodman
While most people have heard of the Equifax breach, most people out of the IT community don’t realize it was due to an unsecured open-sourced system. While 99% of cybersecurity hacks occur on Windows operating system, that doesn’t stop hackers from taking any opportunity to break into a system. How does cybersecurity work with an […] Read More
Dan Young
By reading this blog post, you’ve been invited to StormWind Studio’s upcoming QuickCast: 30-minutes to a Less Vulnerable Network with Mike Vasquez. This QuickCast is exclusive to IT professionals.Vulnerability management is an essential element of creating a secure networking environment. Join Mike Vasquez, Senior Technical Instructor at StormWind Studios, as we discuss vulnerability management and […] Read More
George Chanturidze
Network security password guidelines IT professionals have relied on for years are just plain wrong. You heard us: WRONG! Creating strong, complicated passwords and changing them frequently doesn’t protect organizations against cybersecurity breaches. This practice makes it easier for computers to hack and harder for humans to remember. If your users use irregular capitalization, special […] Read More
Raymond Lacoste
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s largest, most robust cloud computing platform with over 70 offerings, a million of customers, $10 billion in annual revenue, and 40% of the cloud computing market share. AWS operates in 44 availability zones, 16 geographic regions, and serves customers like Reddit and Dropbox. While all the tech stats […] Read More
Vince Rightley
VMworld 2017 was a few weeks ago, but we got the opportunity to catch up with Vince Rightley, Senior Certified VMware instructor, about his experience at the event. A little background on Vince. He has over 30 years of experience in IT and almost 10 years experience as a Certified VMware Instructor. To say he’s […] Read More
Ralph Smith
Did you know Americans hold about 11 million meetings per day and of those, 85% of all meetings require remote attendees to join digitally? This is one of the reasons why it’s so important for admins to understand the ins and outs of the Cisco Unified Communications Manager, also known as CUCM or Call Manager. […] Read More
George Chanturidze
Being in IT can be terrifying. From security issues to demanding users, it’s all in a day’s work for admins. Now, what do you do when you have a company of monsters? Literally, live in the sewer monsters. The Late Late Show with James Corden shows what happens when a user mistakenly calls IT instead of I.T. […] Read More
Ashley Hunt
Ashley Hunt, Senior StormWind Studios PMP© instructor, received her shiny, new PMBOK© 6th Edition and Agile Practice Guide in the mail and she’s got A LOT to tell our fans. As we’ve been announcing this is the first change in the PMBOK© since 2012, and will affect PMP© earners from here-on-out! The new edition was released […] Read More
Doug Bassett
“This [cours is going to harden our system, because one of the big problems that we run into, is any time that we’re looking at threats, we forget the number one threat to our company, which is internal employees.” With the average cost of a data breach in 2016 was $3.62 million according to an […] Read More