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The SISFI Network’s local Abuse and Bullying Support Groups. Coming to your communities.

Brett A. Scudder — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:33:07 +0000

Good day to you,

There is nothing like having local people in our communities that shares a common issue or goal and can work towards addressing the societal issues and their impacts on us a people together. The SISFI Network’s work has become a very respected and sought after resource that is spawning local abuse and bullying groups in many communities. We are very happy to see people coming forward in opening up to us and sharing their stories. This level of trust shows us that there is a dire need for what is being offered and how people are willing to open up to the pain, hurt and distress faced or being faced by the issues. This allows us to get a better view of how deeply entrenched these issues are in our society, and even more importantly is the need for local support groups to help both the abused and abuser, bully and bullied to seek comfort, an open channel of effective communications and resources to help them get over and past these issues.

There is no denying the existence of these issues of abuse and bullying and as bad as things are today with cases local and over the media, people are still denying them simply because they have not been directly affected by the issues and so they cannot relate to those who have and are going through them. That hurts me so badly because if we take a close look at the mass killings in schools and workplaces we will see that these issues are very much real and have multiple impacts and effects not only on the victims but also family and friends.

The number of people coming forward and opening up to us for help, guidance and support resources is increasing drastically every week as the word is out, the network is in effect and people just need closure, healing and help for themselves, family members or children in moving forward. Some people do not have any local expertise to assist in their cases and so they search through online forums, blogs and social media to connect with people and work on their issues. While this is one way of going about it, I believe the physical interaction between people who share similar issues and can relate to them is immeasurable and very well needed in these types of issues.

Therefore, we are always looking for people who are willing to be a support arm of the network as a local support group leader in their communities. Please feel free to pass this request and need on to anyone that can be a resource in is interested in being a local liaison and leadership channel.

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your patronage and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/Chairman – SISFI – The Scudder’s InfoTech SecuriCity Foundation http://sisfi.org
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect – ~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~ http://titssn.net
TITSSN’s Technology / IT Security Social Network http://titssn.org | The IT Security Attaché http://theitsecurityattache.com

SISFI/TITSSN’s Community Security Network Operations Center “CSNOC”

Brett A. Scudder — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:39:45 +0000

Good day to you,

As a Technology and IT Security professional services organization that has been an advocate for the enhancement of Technology and IT Security education, training, awareness and development for our people, we have taken the next step in creating a Community Security Network Operations Center “CSNOC” to further enhance this goal. Our CSNOC will help to provide more safety and security through technological advancement resources to secure the systems in our communities through a managed service infrastructure. This will allow the effective configuration, value and use of today’s latest and greatest technologies for the residents, consumer and business users. Leveraging the cloud technologies of today’s leading providers, we have been testing and building test pilots across our communities with great successes and are now ready for full deployment.

Our CSNOC will provide 24hrs technical support for all members systems which covers laptops, workstations, servers, tablets, mobile devices and other networked technologies with on and offline viral, malicious, intrusion detection and prevention and web content security. Our coverage of these technologies and solutions will remove the managing of yearly renewal submissions, product updates, learning, configuration and deployment from the users as our secure relations teams are always monitoring and working with our security development partners to ensure that we are staying on top of the latest updates, optimizations, configurations and settings so that we are always standing by our promise of creating a utopia of computer security for all no matter where you are using them.

We are very excited about this new service model offering as it speaks to our constant vigilance in creating a bigger, better and more converged security model for communities. Now our communities can be more securely connected and safe with the watchful eyes of our security experts team at the helm of this new era of technological advancements.

You can follow our CSNOC’s updates and development on Twitter here http://twitter.com/SISFIs_CSNOC

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your patronage and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/Chairman ~ SISFI ~ The Scudder’s InfoTech SecuriCity Foundation | http://sisfi.org
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect – ~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~ | http://titssn.net
The IT Security Attaché | http://theitsecurityattache.com
SISFI/TITSSN’s Technology / IT Security Social Network | http://titssn.org

SISFI/TITSSN’s “Youths: The impacts of community/school in our lives” Talent/Essay Competition coming in September

Brett A. Scudder — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:41:05 +0000

Good day to you,

Over the past few weeks I have been working on this idea and I have now come up with a framework of which we will put into effect immediately for this to start in September. Please feel free to share your thoughts on it. I am always open to suggestions and I am willing to try them as long as they can fit into the logistics.

This will be a competition for the best essay or talent performance that depicts the lives of our youths and the ways in which the community and school impacts them. The essay will talk about their experiences, ambitions, goals and challenges in school and how they have overcome them or what suggestions, requests they have to make things better and/or improve them. The essays will be submitted on a special website to allow general viewing and voting of which we will select the top 5 for the winners.

The talent performances will feature a 15 minutes skit of a day in the life of the youths in their school and what message they would like to deliver to the people about it. This skit will require multiple people of which the applicant will choose 2-3 friends to help in delivering the message. This will mean coordinating rehearsals and planning for the performance.

The rules and conditions of the contest will be posted on the website when it opens.

The winners will receive individual prizes as well as their schools.

Here are the winning prizes for the top 5 selections:

- An iPad
- A Netbook
- A Kindle or Nook
- $500 gift certificate from BestBuy
- $200 gift certificate from Staples

Each winner will receive a copy of a book that speaks about teen/youth/community/social development, bullying, online/offline safety/security and leadership values. They will be required to attend our Black Tie Community Youths Awards Dinner Ceremony on Saturday November 13th where they will receive their prizes/awards. They will then move on to hold the title of “Empowered Community/Youth Development Leaders” and join a special team we will continue to work with going forward. Working with these youths will mean being mentors, advisors and support resources for them so they can continue building on their own personal development and be looked up to as leaders and resources in their community and school.

Every participating school will receive gifts such as books and technology products from our partners and sponsors.

Due to the scope of this competition and it being our first attempt at it, we are limiting it to NY and NJ and once we do this first one the next will be national. I want this to be a look at how we can accomplish this and see any challenges before opening it up to the national scene. The lessons learnt will be critical to the national level’s success. We are starting the promotions and have already started pushing out tweets and Facebook updates about it while we work on the logistics. Building up the momentum and anticipation will get the participating youths in motion for it.

The contest will run for the entire month of September and will end on October 1st of which we will start selecting the winners. The winners will be announced on Monday October 11th via the contests website. The notices of winning and invitations to the awards dinner will then be sent to the winners. The contest will then wrap up on November 13th at the awards dinner.

Here is the first tweaser (tweet teaser) we are using for now “SISFI/TITSSN’s “Youths: The impacts of community/school in our lives” Talent/Essay Competition is coming in September. Stay tuned.”

More details to come as we finalize this for kickoff in September. We are very excited about this and we hope to get great support for it. Let’s get it started.

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your patronage and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/Chairman – SISFI – The Scudder’s InfoTech SecuriCity Foundation http://sisfi.org
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect – ~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~ http://titssn.net
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RE: Happy Independence Day from Mr. Howard M. Cohen

Brett A. Scudder — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:42:39 +0000

This was sent to me by a fellow group leader/friend and I felt compelled to share it as his words and message is so powerful. Thank you for sharing this with me sir and approving sharing it with others. I am honored to be a recipient of it.

Subject: Happy Independence Day

With the pace and stress of our lives these days, it’s often very easy for us to forget what we hold to be of value. That’s why, with everyone wishing each other a Happy Fourth of July weekend today, I wanted to take a moment to remember what most precious and valuable gift we’re really celebrating.

Independence.

On Sunday we commemorate the 234^th anniversary of the day the original 13 United States of America declared their independence from England. It’s easy for us to say those words today and almost miss the true meaning, so it’s worthwhile to take a moment to reflect on what the value of independence meant to those original citizens of the United States.

They were declaring independence from fear, from tyranny, from greed, and from repression. They all came here to seek a better life for themselves and their families and, finding no change, fought and died to earn that independence. It was so valuable to them that they were willing to sacrifice their lives to win it.

I look around me today, and it seems like we’ve almost come full circle. We suffer from fear of losing our livelihoods and our homes, from the tyranny of a radical few, from the greed of those who only want to gather unto themselves, and from repression of our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s not as simple as it was in 1776. There are many more enemies to confront today, and some are very, very hard to find.

So I just wanted to write this to my friends to entreat you to join me in commemorating not only this day, but the undying limitless value those first citizens of these United States fought and died to protect. It passes to us now to continue their campaign and confront all of the enemies of our freedom with our best weapons; intelligence, wisdom, grace, and compassion. Our numbers are many, and our cause is just. Let’s all celebrate our independence and renew our resolve to preserve it.

Have a safe, healthy, fun Independence Day weekend!!!

With warmest & heartiest regards,

HMC

Howard M. Cohen

Senior Resultant

HMC Corporate Copywriting & Consulting

Div of Techchannel Partners’ Results Group, Inc.

Corporate & Commercial Copywriting

Web Content – Proposal Development

Business Development and Marketing

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Eastern Region Chair – IAMCP US Board

Communications Chair – IAMCP US Board

SISFI/TITSSN begins convergence for major Cyberbullying offensive education and awareness campaign and needs your help

Brett A. Scudder — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:29:22 +0000

Good day to you,

We are getting ready to launch a major Cyberbullying offensive in May are asking for your support in numbers. We want to have a strong unified voice that will echo far and wide, loud and clear, deep and strong with hearts and hands in unity to every heart and mind. This is a people problem that can only be solved by the people if we unite and face the reality of its dark secrets and inner workings of simplicity. It is so easy to put into effect but yet so hard to get rid of or forget and unless/until we open up the lines of communications and call it what it is, we are in for more serious fatalities.

We are all affected by this threat and the only way we can win against it is to unify in a campaign of higher education, awareness and open discussions about the impacts, effects and solutions for it. Even if you don’t know of or about it, even if you have not been affected by it, even if you’re not privy to its darkness, help to bring them to light so we all can help each other overcome it.

We are aiming for at least 500 fans to kick off this initiative on our Facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Scudders-InfoTech-SecuriCity-Foundation-Inc/106901499345679?ref=mf so let us spread the word, build on the intensity and start motivating towards this blocking and mitigating this silent killer.

Strength in numbers, strength in the vision, strength through unification, strength in hearts, mind, love, care and concern on this converged global network.

Please join the fight towards this goal with us on Facebook.

Will you join us in vanquishing this inhumane evil?

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your support and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~

TITSSN in association with the SQPA (Southern Queens Park Association) invites you to a FREE Technology and IT Security Forum

Brett A. Scudder — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:19:19 +0000

Event Title: TITSSN in association with the SQPA (Southern Queens Park Association) invites you to a FREE Technology and IT Security Forum

Description: An invitation to: Parents, Students, Administrators, Teachers, Business Professionals, Business Owners

You’re invited to an evening of awareness, training, networking and collaboration which will feature a look at some of today’s top technologies and the varied features and functionalities they present. We will focus on educating and making you aware of these technologies and how to use them safely and stay secure. You are at risk and resistance is futile. If there are any particular technology (hardware/software) that you’re interested in learning about, please feel free to ask, we may be able to facilitate getting more information/resources or help on it for you.

Food and refreshments will be provided.

Free 1 year subscription for anti-virus/anti-malware for every attendee

Guest speaker/presenter – Mr. Brett A. Scudder – President/Chairman of SISFI and TITSSN

Featured Topics:

- Understanding the impacts of the internet and technology in the business place and home

- PC/Internet Security guidance and best practices for adults and children

- Identity Theft Prevention and Protection

- Understanding your Privacy and the laws

- Instant Messaging threats and prevention

- Social Networking privacy, safety, security and its impacts and effects

- Why am I at risk in this new era. Can I avoid/resist it?

- How to protect against viruses and malicious codes (Spyware/Malware/Trojans/Worms/Ransomeware)

- Mobile devices (cell phones, PDA’s, iPhones, Smartphones) security/risks and best practices

Please RSVP to Brett.Scudder@titssn.net or (718) 928-9731

We look forward to seeing and having you with us for a great session.

Event Date/Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Host(s): TITSSN, SQPA and SISFI

Location: Roy Wilkins Park, 177-01 Baisley Blvd., Jamaica, NY, 11434

Event Type: Community Empowerment

Location: Queens, NYC, USA

Sponsor(s): The Scudder’s InfoTech SecuriCity Foundation and TITSSN

TITSSN is looking for mobile security vendors to participate in our Mobility/Endpoint Security Summit “MESS” on Tuesday February 16th 2010 at the local Microsoft Briefing Center in New York City.

Brett A. Scudder — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:47:08 +0000

Good day to you,

If you are a security vendor that provides solutions for mobile devices I am interested in talking with you about being a part of our MESS in February. Please feel free to contact me directly for further discussion.

Here is more information about the summit.

The Summit will be focusing on the proliferation of mobile devices (laptops, Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs, UMPCs, Smartphone’s, media players, mass storage devices and add-on cards) and the threats they present to the consumers/businesses and the data that resides on them. We will provide the products and solutions that will allow the management and control over these devices through the endpoints.

Live hands on demos will be available. There will be test/demo systems configured and setup to facilitate the effective use of the information and products being presented and demo’d. There will be mobile devices from the industry vendors such as HTC, Palm, Motorola, Google, Samsung and more.

We are all aware of how these devices can be used to steal data/information off the target system unbeknownst to the user.

The Summit will focus on 3 key areas of mobility and security.

1. The Devices – A look at the mobile devices on the market today.

a. Netbooks, Laptops, Tablet PCs, Mini PCs, UPMCs
b. Smartphone’s/Pocket PCs – HTC’s, Motorola’s, HP Smartphone’s, Samsung, Cell phones
c. Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Nexus One
d. Media Players – iPod’s, MP3 players and more
e. Mass Storage Devices (USB Flash drives, Compact and SD cards, mobile phone memory sticks, and more)
f. Wireless capabilities – Infrared, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMax,
g. The Operating Systems – Windows Mobile, Symbian, Apple, Android

2. The Threats – A look at the threats that affects these devices and how they are targeted and attacked from internal and external sources.

a. Viruses/worms proliferation from devices to network to world.
b. Unauthorized connectivity to and from unscrupulous devices and sources (wired and wireless).
c. The use of these devices for storing critical business data and information.
d. Sharing data and information to and from the device through messaging and wireless connectivity.
e. The availability of over the air messaging and other communications tools and the problems they present.
f. Data loss/Theft of these devices and the business impact it presents.
g. Addressing the myths about over-the-air wiping of the device and why it is not effective today. The device is still a threat if lost.

3. The Protection – How to manage, protect and secure these devices from the threats.

a. How to manage the devices on and off the network.
b. How to protect and secure your endpoints from these unauthorized devices.
c. How to secure the devices against malicious codes (viruses, worms, Trojans, keyloggers, hackers) with viral protection.
d. How to secure the data/information residing on the devices local store and storage cards with data encryption.
e. How to secure the wireless connections of the device.
f. What to do in the event of a device loss or theft – the incident alert/response, damage control and alerting process.
g. How to make the over-the-air wiping feature effective and to mitigate the loss of data if device is lost.

Please feel free to share this request with any vendor that may find it of value.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Happy New Year to you and yours from Brett A. Scudder and TITSSN

Brett A. Scudder — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:29:45 +0000

Good day to you,

As we say goodbye to 2009 and welcome in the start of a new decade, 2010, I would like to wish you all a happy, safe, secure, prosperous and resourceful New Year in 2010 for you and yours. Let us all look ahead at greater things and the betterment of ourselves as a people, not individuals in the coming year.

Let us start the year with an open mind, a serious consciousness on the state of our technology infrastructure, the simplicity of its configuration and use and the complexities that defines its vulnerabilities for all. Let us reflect on the year that has past and learn from it with all the issues and challenges that we faced and use them to move forward with more education, awareness, growth and future development.

Be safe, be secure and get ready for an awesome year in 2010.

We thank you for your patronage and look forward to continually serving you in 2010.

God’s richest blessing and a Happy New Year to you and yours.

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/CEO/Chairman/Security Attaché
~TITSSN~

A Merry Christmas to you from TITSSN with best wishes and many blessings

Brett A. Scudder — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:14:52 +0000

Good day to you,

On behalf of TITSSN, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas filled with love, joy and peace as we make it through the holiday season.

We thank you for your continued patronage and look forward to serving you more in 2010.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/CEO/Chairman

TITSSN’s SecuriHome Initiative launches in January 2010 – free full versions of security solutions to secure and protect your systems

Brett A. Scudder — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:43:56 +0000

Good day to you,

Over the past few months we have been working more closely with our security vendors to align key support for our network members, partners and associates and we are happy to announce that we have completed the negotiations for this new initiative to make it viable, feasible and successful for all.

Starting in January 2010, TITSSN will take full responsibility for providing free or deeply discounted pricing for all vendor member security products within the network for its members. That’s right, you heard it correctly, we’re giving you free full versions of our vendor’s security solutions to secure and protect your systems. Not only are we providing the solutions, we are also providing the documentation for installing, configuring and using them. We know of the challenges being faced with these solutions where system resources are used up thus making the systems appear to be slow and so we’re going to support those issues for you as well. Our goal is to properly secure every members PCs so they can be safer and more secure on and offline no matter where they are.

Forget about license renewals and licensing issues, we will take care of all those for you and leave you to continue enjoying the secure benefits and use of your systems without these minor interruptions. There are certain restrictions to this offer as we are seeing people joining up and not actively participating in the network activities and developments. We will not be simply giving these solutions away to any signed up account, we will review the account and offer the solutions accordingly.

This offer is limited to home users only. We are working on a business version of this initiative that will provide much deeper volume discounts for the business. This is in the works and will be announced soon.

More details to come as we put this into effect and set all the parameters in place.

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your business and support and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
The IT Security Attaché | President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~

TITSSN wishes all our American members a happy, peaceful, safe and secure Thanksgiving holiday season

Brett A. Scudder — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:46:39 +0000

Good day to you,

On behalf of TITSSN I would like to say a warm, heartfelt and thankful Thanksgiving best wishes to all our American members, partners, associates, friends and customers. We hope that you will make the best of the day and be safe, stay secure and always be on alert for physical and/or cyber attacks during this time.

During this holiday season you will see a high increase in online phishing attacks and fake messages purporting to be security solutions. Please be very vigilant in your online shopping and email etiquette as the threats can and will come from known sources which is very much more serious than unknown sources. When visiting websites for shopping or viewing those family pics that “someone” may send you, please be cautious and looks for signs of abnormality.

If you receive a message from someone saying they posted pics of you or a family get together on a site for you to look at, reach out and ask if they did indeed send the message so you can verify that the intent was really from them.

Again, be safe and keep a keen eye out for any signs of suspicious activities when viewing websites.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Special member(s) recognition Thanksgiving giveaway – Windows 7 Ultimate and a Security Suite of your choice

Brett A. Scudder — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:42:26 +0000

Good day to you,

In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday season tomorrow, we will be saying thanks to a few key members of our network with a special giveaway. We have seen and acknowledged their help, support and contributions to our network here and in other places and so this is a small token or our appreciation.

We will be giving them 1 copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and a Security Suite solution package of their choice from one of our vendors. The package can be used o secure up to three PCs.

Sunbelt’s VIPRE® Antivirus + Antispyware
Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2010
Norton Security Suite 2010
PCTools Spyware Doctor 2010

We just want to say many thanks and we hope that they will continue to support the network wherever they are and may be.

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your business and support and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
The IT Security Attaché
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~

TITSSN’s Technology/IT Security Social Network Professional Services and Support Pay-Per-Incident Initiative

Brett A. Scudder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:50:24 +0000

Good day to you,

As a technology/IT Security services provider we are always striving to attain the highest levels of professional services, training, support and value for our members and in doing so, at times add additional incentives to the process(es). Our membership hosts some of the finest service providers in their various areas of business and services, and we are always finding ways of bringing the people who needs the services together with the people who deliver on them.

TITSSN is launching this new initiative to allow approved service providers to handle incident and service requests within the Social Network and be compensated for them. This new model will allow more people coming to our network for help and support to get the quality needed to enhance their business or personal needs. There are certain qualifications and restrictions as we must ensure that the proper understanding of what is being supported and offered is of the professional levels of quality and service. There are certain free services that will be offered of which will be documented and made publicly known.

Over the years we have built good relationships with our member service providers and in doing so, we have gotten to know them personally and professionally. These relationships have built trust and a common goal where we are all striving for the quality of services and support for our customers and clients. It is also a means of bringing the network together so that we can all build on the various areas of expertise and skillsets needed for securing tomorrow’s systems today. We have seen their business model, seen and heard their professional response, seen their hands-on skillset in effect, provided the needed training and education of/on specific vendor products and solutions and have collaborated with them across numerous projects. It is this level of value that will allow us to create the perfect working model for this initiative as we are able to identify key people with the needed professional abilities, skillset and ethics to represent our organization in supporting our Social Network community.

Services and support will range from,

Hardware sales, services and support
Software sales, services, implementation, support and training
Hands-on technical support on and offsite/offline
Technical training for your family, employees/staff and members
Specialized and customized training on specific vendor products/solutions
Knowledge transfer and relationship building
Web Infrastructure implementation, configuration and hosting (blogs, forums, websites, ecommerce)

Our services and support model doesn’t omit any one or any size organization or company, we support any and everyone with their technology and IT Security needs. All are invited to join our network and seek out the services and support that are provided.

Our Social Network is located at http://titssn.org

We hope that by providing this service that it will attract more members who are seeking these services or wanting to provide the services and support that is being put forward. If interested please feel free to contact us for more details by emailing our Secure Relations Team. We apprecilove your business and support and look forward to serving you more.

Thank you very much and have a great day.

~Brett A. Scudder~
The IT Security Attaché
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~

Live audio/video Windows 7 step by step installation and configuration via our Social Network Friday November 13th 9am-11am

Brett A. Scudder — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:09:01 +0000

Good day to you,

On Friday November 13th from 9am-11am we will be hosting a live audio and video session on installing and configuring Windows 7 from the ground up. We will also be tweeting the process as we go along and sharing the info with that network as well. Please feel free to join in as we help with the adoption and use of this new OS and securing it.

Join us http://titssn.org

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

TITSSN presents, SecuriViews – Security Interviews, from industry security professionals, experts, vendors, developers and leaders.

Brett A. Scudder — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:31:46 +0000

Good day to you,

Over the years we have been working with a number of security vendors, professionals and experts and have collaborated and networked with them on many occasions for various reasons. We are taking this partnership/alliance to another level and will be aligning interviews and some one-on-one time with them to talk about their business, jobs, roles and the ways in which they impact or are impacted by the technology infrastructure of today. This is now coming into play quite nicely and will be conducted through our social network.

This will allow us to get a sense of their feelings, input and directives from them or their companies so we can be better able to understand and relate to/with them.

We are aligning these interviews of which some will be in person and some over the wire/air but we will do the best we can to bring you the quality and value. We are looking forward to this and will be archiving the interviews here in our network.

Our network builds value and quality out of its partnership, membership and alliances and in so doing tries to find ways in which we can elevate the quality of life and exposure for all members. It is through the support of our partners, members, associates and friends we will continue to excel in all that we do and are about. We look forward to the continued support as we move forward.

Stay tuned and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

IT Security Education and Awareness must go beyond sales and financial gains, more education, awareness and training needed on levels

Brett A. Scudder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:44:42 +0000

The current state of our economic and global interconnectivity infrastructure relies heavily and in some cases solely on the adoption, use and services of technology today and for tomorrow. More and more we’re seeing the integration and use of technology in the home, school, places of learning and other institutions that confirms that our decency on these things are far from going away or over. Yet, unchecked, we’re still in a money making and financial gains mode when it comes to providing the education, awareness, knowledge of the convergence of technology and the World Wide Web for us as a people.

The ridiculous notion of our infrastructure being secured by over government or independent entities that limit partnerships and associations to only high levels, is a sure sign of the failure of the systems of security for tomorrow. Until and unless we unite in this fight against these issues and the growing trends by which they are being introduced, we will always be vulnerable by our weakest, untrained and not knowledgeable links (citizens, business, educators, advisors, technologists), . We are vulnerable through the process of omission, omitting those we think are not a critical part of the infrastructure or the need to help in securing it. The high costs of securing our infrastructure does not include user education and general awareness as a proactive move. It is only when something happens and the issues/problems are of a great magnitude/impact that we see the levels of attention and focus being put to it, then comes the irritating comments of if we had known or if we had acted sooner.

What will it take for us to give the needed attention and focus to these issues before they become problems?
When and where will we see the integration and coordination of all levels of society getting involved in this initiative?
Who can speak on all levels for all levels?

These are different times, different types of warfare, different types of attacks with more sophistication, more widespread impact and yet, still, we’re limiting the resources needed to endorse, support and finance these educational and awareness needs. We are falling behind in the fight to keep up with the demand of technology products and solutions because the hardware vendors mission to bring us the latest and greatest products with more feature rich functions, speed, storage and settings. This is one fight that by its very simplicity, involves our youths/children and those of early learning without even going outside their boundaries. The threats are looking for us, looking for vulnerabilities in our systems, looking for our private and personal information, looking for anything it can on and about us and our businesses, where we work and how we live.

Will you leave yourself vulnerable because you didn’t take the time to learn more about them or practice safe computing?
How do we address this on a global scale where the minds and concerns of our youths are addressed in regards to technology, privacy and securing them?
Who educates the educators and provides them with the needed resources to speak to the technology advancements being seen and felt in our society today within the classrooms?

Our youths are educating the educators, the parents and the more senior members of our society. While the adults and seniors are busy living their day to day lives, the youths have all this extra time on their hands to play with that makes that the perfect educational resource for tomorrow. Educating them about the internet and how technology integrates and affects our daily lives today and tomorrow will help them to be better netizens. There are too many unknowns into what is the most sophisticated and interconnected network every built and running.

We are too controlling over our youths without the right focus on these things. It is not about taking away the access or resources of the internet, it is about educating them more on its values, proper use and how to manage their online presence and identity. Social Networks, Social Media, personal and professional messaging ethic, etiquette, general internet usage and the Threats Landscape are all critical topics that should be integrated into our school systems curriculum today to allow these kinds of thoughts from an early age and stage of development. More funding and resources should be put into programs, groups, organizations that focus on these critical resources training for tomorrow. Our lower school educational systems are lacking the integration of technology, privacy, internet usage and protection training that suits our youths today. Youths are exposed and have access to these internet resources at home without proper education and awareness as to how to use and manage them until something happens and a life is taken or at stake and further investigation reveals that he/she had a secret life online that was very troubled and now this.

This is where our educational institutions should be filling in the gap and providing the additional focus and attention on these things. Engaging local subject matter experts, vendors, developers and other technology leaders to come in and give real world experience and open discussion is a critical need for our youths. Let us engage the youths in open dialog on and about technology, IT Security, privacy and other concerns they may have. Let us open up those channels of communications so they can be better served and ready for the superhighway ride ahead.

Let us not waste time in helping to foster the needed understanding, education and awareness needed for our youths as they have and are actively engaged in using them every day. What better way to put this knowledge craving to use than by helping them along the way.

IT Security is a people problem, not an industry one. We are all at risk.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

A special thank you to our participating vendors and members of October’s ENGAGED educational promotion

Brett A. Scudder — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:12:26 +0000

Good day to you,

I would like to say a special thank you to all participating vendors and members of our October ENGAGED promotion. We didn’t get the kind of support expected but we gathered some well needed visibility. The next ENGAGED promotion will run in January and will be twice as good as this one. We hope that by then we will have an increase in active members.

Stay tuned for some upcoming giveaways and specials for the month of November.

Again, thank you all and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Our ENGAGED promotion questions are open, please start participating and let’s get ENGAGED.

Brett A. Scudder — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:37:16 +0000

Good day to you,

Our ENGAGED promotion is underway and there are open questions on the site for you to participate in. They are tagged with the ENGAGED label at the beginning of the subject line and the body provide the info of what will be the reward for the best answer. Our executive’s team and select partners are allowed to ask and reward questions for this promotion. Anyone wishing to ask a question can do so in general but without the tag or need to give a reward.

I noticed that no one has attempted to participate in the ENGAGED questions and was wondering why. They are open so please start working on them. Time is going. We hard stop on October 31st and the winners will receive their prizes. Not yet a member, join us here http://titssn.org/signup.php.

Let’s get ENGAGED and start working on these questions. As you can see, they are provided to open your minds to think and learn of these things with the intention that it will help to generate a higher sense of education, understanding and awareness. We are looking for articulate answers and not just a Google/Bing/Yahoo search cut and paste. We will review the answers and choose based on the info, structure and value in regards to the question so take some time to construct your answers accordingly.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask any executive team our TITSSN staff members.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Microsoft contributes to the ENGAGED promotion, free Windows 7 OS to be given away. Sweet. Many thanks to Mr. Doi.

Brett A. Scudder — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:45:32 +0000

Hi all,

I’m sure this will excite a lot of people and I’m more excited than you are. I just received confirmation that we will be having some copies of Windows 7 to give away thanks to Mr. Doi who has always supported our initiatives and efforts. Thank you very much sir.

More details to come but yes, Windows 7 will be a part of the promotion and we now have to decide on where to add it. Hmm, we’ll see.

This is too exciting.

~Brett A. Scudder~

This is too funny. 11 people are waiting to signup on the social network as the 100th member for the $50 gift certificate :-)

Brett A. Scudder — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:17:46 +0000

Hi all, check this out.

This is too funny. 11 people are waiting to signup on the social network as the 100th member for the $50 gift certificate

Isn’t that something lol

I received word from a few people saying, yes, I did receive your invite or email and I will sign up shortly. By the way, what number is the registration at now?
Are you close to the 100 yet?

Then it dawned on me, I remembered the $50 for the 100th member.
So let’s see which one will be our 100th member.

The funny thing is, I don’t know how they will know they are the 100th

Have a great day and a please signup because you see the value in what we’re doing and providing.

~Brett A. Scudder~

How serious is my messaging identity, 150+ domains, multiple mail services and providers, no public webmail accounts

Brett A. Scudder — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:13:00 +0000

So here I was caught up in another messaging discussion and the use of online mail services. I don’t mind having a discussion on mail security but when it comes to infrastructure people tend to think I over extend the value and need, do I?

Ever since I started my very first business I have always had my own domain name and had my own mail server/services. I had this identity crisis that always led me to believe that the real value of a businessman was to reflect the value of his infrastructure across the board. I was never a fan of webmail services because I always felt that the manipulation of my messages should be handled by me alone. I always felt that some visibility was always in the hands of the service provider and that didn’t sit well with me.

Setting up an email server was the slickest thing and didn’t require any high end technical knowledge if you had technical knowledge at all. So over the years I built on that and continued that practice. So today here I am with 150 domains under my name and the access, resources and availability of adding messaging services to all. So I settled on one domain name as my primary and then two secondary with two backups.

Hmm, what does that mean you ask, simple.
I manage one account that is copied to two other accounts as backup and then aggregated into a catchall on two others. All five accounts are on different servers so the chance of losing/missing a message is less than .0001%. I may have a task finding it depending on which layer of the mix I am looking for it.

So does that sound like I take this messaging thing too seriously?

It’s your call but for me, it is critical that I have and can find my messages even if my primary account is down or inaccessible. The other aspect of that is identity, identifying myself as the owner of that domain and all other associated domains in that name sequence. There are nine major domain extensions, .com, .net .org, .info, .ws, .biz, .me, .mobi, .us (varies depending on the country you live in) and whenever I’m getting a new domain I get all of them. I get them because I want to ensure that the name is owned across the nine for/by me. There are a few rare instances where I may like something that is already taken and if it is the .com only then I base the need on severity. Again, this is a rare case as I always try to find unique names that most people wouldn’t come up with. Take TITSSN as an example.

So now you know how I end up with over 150 plus domains and my various hosting infrastructure allows me to fire up a new mail infrastructure on any one at anytime.

So how many email accounts do I have?

We’ll leave that for another time lol. Let’s just say I left the people with that blank look of awe on their faces. It was a nice conversation though and it made the train ride home much quicker.

Have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

TITSSN activates October’s ENGAGED promotion. Let’s get ENGAGED

Brett A. Scudder — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:31:40 +0000

Good day to you,

It is with great excitement that I officially announce the launch of our ENGAGED “ENabling Greater Awareness, Growth and Educational Development” October promotion for today October 15th. This is a significant launch for us as it signals a new level of commitment of how serious we are taking our work and initiatives in promoting the elevation of education, awareness and training for technology and IT Security. This will be a quarterly event that focuses on providing more attention, support and focus on these critical areas of our future. Over the next two weeks we will feature special activities within the network that will focus on technology and IT Security in general by adding some special giveaways and incentives to our participating members.

These activities will include special featured questions, forum and group discussions, polls and spur of the moment giveaways. These rewards are added to our Virtual Gifts and will be how the winners are rewarded. The more points you accumulate during the next two weeks will allow you to claim additional products and solutions that were made available by our participating vendors. We ask that you be prudent in choosing your prizes/gifts with the consideration in mind that because they are specific to securing your systems, you should not have two of the same type of solutions running at the same time. This will cause considerable system performance issues. Please feel free to seek our guidance with your choices. We are here to help.

We want to say a very special thank you to our participating vendors for this month and hope that you will continue to support the initiative. This month’s vendors list includes, Pearson Education – representing Cisco Press, Safend, Sunbelt Software, Symantec, SpectorSoft, ESET, PCTools and Kaspersky. As a thank you from the network, we will be providing a special page for your company and products in the network. This page will feature the product(s) that were provided for this month’s promotion. This is the least we can do in thanks for your contributions and we hope that you will continue to keep us apprised on the development of your products/solutions going forward.

So let’s get ENGAGED http://titssn.org/signup.php

Thank you very much and have a great day. We apprecilove your business and support and look forward to serving you more.

~Brett A. Scudder~
President/CEO/Chairman/Founder/Security Architect
~TITSSN ~The IT Security Suite Network~ | http://titssn.net
We are Security – your Security – our Security – IT Security. Our Security is Safe and Secure.

Vendors support grows for our ENGAGED October special promotion – Safend confirm participation. Auditor added to gifts lineup.

Brett A. Scudder — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:07:19 +0000

Good day to you,

I am very happy to announce that Safend has confirmed participation on this month’s ENGAGED special promotion and will be adding their Auditor into the mix. This is so exciting and I can’t tell you how much I love the vendors support we’re getting.

I want to thank Mr. Ben Campbell who has been an avid supporter of the network and our vision and I do hope that he will continue to do so. Thank you sir and I look forward to sharing this awesome solution with our members.

For more information on the Safend Auditor please see here http://www.safend.com/63-en/Safend%20Auditor.aspx. Certain limitations will apply to this gift because of the nature of it and what environment it fits in. More details will be posted on it.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

Alert – TITSSN’s social network is being locked down as of October 14th. Members only access. Join us.

Brett A. Scudder — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:56:01 +0000

Good day to you,

Over the past few weeks we opened our network doors for all to see what was available in an effort to share the value and resources we have. We over extended the lock down date from October 1st to the 14th because of increased activity and requests for more information. Now we’re about to kick off our ENGAGED special promotional program on October 15th and we are locking down the network or privacy and security reason. You must be a member to see what is inside and be able to participate, benefit and enjoy what we are bringing to you.

So today being the last day we are prepping everything for tomorrow and getting all the key pieces aligned and working. We apprecilove the support and feedback we have received and they are being put to good use.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~

MicroBlogging – another awesome feature of our social network. Available for all members, check it out.

Brett A. Scudder — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:44:52 +0000

Good day to you,

We added a MicroBlogging feature to our social network to enhance the personal experience of our members and getting the kind of “more personal” collaboration between them. This is available for all members and we ask that everyone activate their MicroBlog and allow followers. You should also check out the rest of the members that are of interest and follow them as well.

This is a feature like Twitter but internal to the network. I must say I find it very valuable for me as I have to constantly post updates and it allows the tracking of each and the threads that build on it.

So take a few minutes and check out the MicroBlog in your profile. Who knows, you may get followers.

Thank you and have a great day,

~Brett A. Scudder~