The client was looking to digitalize all of their content and make it available on the Internet. Their need for bandwidth, performance and scalability had outgrown their current service.

The client's existing means of connecting their various retail and distribution locations had two major pitfalls: 1. It was very complicated, requiring a significant one-off effort to connect and integrate the locations; 2. It required them to either assume the burden and expense of a complicated security system or assumption of risk in favor of a simpler, less expensive solution.

The organization is highly reliant on their technology infrastructure, and required a network and security refresh. Their demand for capacity, performance, visibility, security and scalability had outgrown the capabilities of their existing infrastructure. After reviewing several competitors, Bat Blue was selected to assist in the assessment, design, implementation and migration efforts.

An executive Vice President informed the Director of Information Technology that he was suspicious some other employee was viewing his e-mail.

The company had seen tremendous growth and outgrown their infrastructure. They utilized over 2000 VPNs to support client access to their applications and their devices were running out of capacity. Their network infrastructure had run out of capacity and ports. Moreover, the client needed to build out a redundant data center to meet client commitments. All of this resulted in challenges managing the environment, weekly outages and resignations from the overwhelmed IT staff.

The hospital was suffering from a multi-day malware outbreak that caused complete outage of their systems, rendering all applications inaccessible.

The executive management was concerned about the leakage of Personal Healthcare Information (PHI), Personal Identification Information (PII) along with sensitive organizational data. They wanted to understand if an investment in Data / Information Leakage Prevention systems would be justified.

Major Cable Network

"Bat Blue’s flexibility, nimbleness and sheer performance made them the clear choice as our primary Internet Service Provider."

Director of Broadcast Networking and Security Infrastructure

Online Media Organization

"Bat Blue finds creative solutions to network security and infrastructure issues. They research and recommend the best products available, not necessarily the most popular or traditional. And they use these same cutting edge products in their own infrastructure which gives their customers an added comfort level."

Rich Mastropietro
Director, IT Infrastructure and Operations

ESPN

"Bat Blue and their WiFi technologies were chosen due to their extensive knowledge of wireless, networking and security, as well as their responsiveness to our needs."

Jon Jensen
Director of Data Communications

St. Johns Riverside Hospital

"Bat Blue's team has a profound understanding of all things network and security. Their expertise and responsiveness has earned them a long-term role as a trusted part of our team."

Niall Pariag
Senior Network Adminstrator

Town of Greenwich, Connecticut

"Bat Blue goes beyond a great technology partner for us, which they are. They are a trusted adviser and an organization we have much faith in."

Boris Hutorin
Director of IT

National Utility Service

"Cloud/Sec has been a real find. It is transparent to my users and budget alike. We have far more visibility and much better security without the recurring product, support, subscriptions and management costs and issues. Cloud/Sec has replaced numerous security technologies for multiple sites. It is a great value!"

Gary Soultanian
President

Major Cable Network

"Bat Blue's ability to see the whole picture and help us develop and deploy holistic solutions rather than focusing on the issue of the day is invaluable."

Director of Broadcast Networking and Security Infrastructure

Prime Automotive Parts

"We have been an extremely satisfied customer of Bat Blue throughout the years. Bat Blue's technical expertise, their understanding of our business needs, and the professional manner in which our account is handled are vital in keeping our business functioning smoothly and securely. Bat Blue is a competitive advantage for staying ahead of our competition."

Stephen Schaefer
Director, MIS

Town of Greenwich, Connecticut

"We selected Bat Blue to manage our Internet security because they offer a security trifecta. Better security, at less cost and less load on my staff. We have been using them for over a year and are loving it!"

Boris Hutorin
Director of IT

Financial Organization

"Bat Blue’s team has consistently gone above and beyond to provide outstanding service, excellent technical advice, and deliver value. They are not a box vendor who pushes hardware. Bat Blue is an organization that measures their success by the success of their customers."

John Lin
Network Manager

Major Cable Network

"It’s priceless to have a technology partner like Bat Blue, who values their customers as much as they do. They have the desire and ability to consistently exceed our expectations, all-the-while maintaining their integrity and authenticity."

Director of Broadcast Networking and Security Infrastructure

Retail Grocer

"Bat Blue continues to be an exemplary service provider. Having worked with Bat Blue for over 5 years, they regularly exceed my expectations with respect to industry knowledge, value proposition & responsiveness."

Rich Angelillo
IS Data Management & Development

Greenwich Connecticut Public Schools

"I have been doing this for over 15 years. I have never worked with a company so quick to respond to an issue and come up with a prompt resolution. It is a pleasure to work with them."

James Nielsen
IT / MIS

National Utility Service

"Over the past 15 years the Bat Blue team has successfully delivered a number of projects for us. As consultants, their industry knowledge and market intelligence is superb. As a professional services team, they are responsive and expert in delivery and support. As our ISP, we experience the benefits of their network everyday. And as a company we trust them as a part of our inner circle."

Gary Soultanian
President

Bat Blue Networks is announcing their refusal to respond to the Iranian Request for Information (RFI) for Internet content filtering and equipment to build an internal isolated Internet. According to the RFI, Iran is requesting proper conditions to build a “healthy” Internet and address the current “filtering situation”.

I was working with a client at a mid-size carrier on their security operations process. On several occasions we identified threats on their threat management platform, however when we went to cross correlate this on their log server we could not find the event logs. This made me suspicious of their logging infrastructure.

There was outrage in the Internet community in response to the proposed SOPA and PIPA Bills that allow organizations with copyrighted content to have a website taken down by virtue of claiming copyright infringement.

There are many companies in the marketplace offering a cloud security service, promising to provide the most complete and comprehensive cloud security offering available. When these cloud security offerings are analyzed, you will discover that the only true, complete cloud security perimeter is Cloud/Sec.

Building a cloud-enabled solution goes well beyond utilizing hardware at a co-location facility. Cloud solutions demand the right balance of accessibility, security, resiliency and management. Keep in mind that all cloud computing providers are exposed to the same risks (partial or complete outages, latency, etc.). You must be sure to find a solution that satisfies the integrity and availability of your required cloud infrastructure and that there is sufficient resiliency in your connectivity to the cloud computing platform.

What if you possessed a high-performance firewall so accurate that you felt confident having it block threats automatically, significantly reducing the need for forensics? This tool can provide real-time visibility into all of your applications regardless of port or protocol, is transparent to implement and requires no network redesign.

By storing data locally on hard drives, you possess total control of the data, can store copious amounts of information and can control who can access this information. Hard drives have become very affordable recently, but external hard drives can fail just as easily as your primary hard drive and you must always worry about potential theft. You would not be able to access your data when you're AFK unless you transport your clunky external hard drive with you to your destination which makes sharing data difficult.

Even though the transition started roughly ten years ago, there is still much confusion as to the intricacies of the migration from IPv4 to IPv6. IPv4 is version 4 of the Internet Protocol that we have been using since the early 80's, using a 32-bit address such as 168.212.226.204. Currently, there are less than 10% of these IP addresses left in the global pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is version 6 of the Internet Protocol, using a 128-bit address such as 3412:2003:3545:30de:680a:9876:32cd:302d. IPv6 addresses are normally written with hexadecimal digits and colon separators. The IPv6 address database possesses the capability of hosting 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses. To put this into perspective, there are as many IPv6 addresses as there are grains of sand on the earth!

Regardless of what protection is implemented to secure your personal network, no security feature can prevent you from uploading personal data about yourself and your family. We live in a world where uploading personal data and media is encouraged because it provides digital expression of our social lives, but we need to be careful and aware of the risks involved when entering this collaborative environment because what we upload to the Internet can come back to hurt us and others close to us.

Bat Blue Network's team of technologists learned valuable cloud lessons back in 2002 when the IT industry wasn't donning it “the cloud”. Bat Blue's early customers of our “Security Anywhere” offering weren't sure if what they had bought was a traditional managed service (it felt like it, as it was backed by a 24/7/365 NOC team) or a service that was more of an extension of their IT team. It didn't matter much that the industry and our customers didn't yet know “the cloud.” All that mattered was that our customers loved the service for all of the reasons that cloud strategies are being quickly adopted today: on-demand scaleability, wide application of a single technology, customer control & visibility, cost containment and measurable savings.

Many have no doubt seen by now HP's recent announcement that it will acquire Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) vendor ArcSight for roughly $1.6bn, a premium of 54% from when the Wall Street Journal first reported Arcsight was on the block in late August. Many of the financial analysts on Wall Street have applauded the deal, citing further evidence of the strategic importance of security (no doubt), as well as further confirmation that customers want to put all their eggs in one basket and purchase from a single vendor (not so much).

Let me first tell you what we already know! Triple digit drops in the market are becoming common place. Consumer confidence is at an all-time low and organizations are slowly but surely executing promised layoffs. How does this translate for the IT organization?