Laws and frameworks like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST aren’t optional for many organizations. Regulatory bodies are increasing scrutiny, expanding rules, and levying harsher penalties for noncompliance.
Failure to comply can lead to:
Hefty fines and legal fees
Business disruptions
Loss of customer trust
Damage to brand reputation
Even if you aren’t directly regulated, your partners and clients likely are—and they’re expecting you to meet the same standards.
Your customers care about their data. So do your vendors, partners, and stakeholders. Demonstrating a strong compliance posture sends a powerful message:
“We take your privacy and security seriously.”
When compliance is part of your core IT strategy, it becomes a competitive advantage that can open doors to larger contracts, new markets, and better client relationships.
Most compliance frameworks overlap significantly with good cybersecurity practices. In fact, achieving compliance often means improving your organization’s ability to:
Detect and respond to threats
Control access to sensitive information
Manage risks systematically
Encrypt and back up critical data
In other words, compliance isn’t just about meeting standards—it’s about building safer, smarter systems.
Trying to “get compliant” only when an audit or breach occurs is a recipe for stress, disruption, and unnecessary expense. A proactive approach to IT compliance:
Reduces audit prep time
Lowers long-term costs
Prevents last-minute scrambling
Demonstrates maturity to regulators and customers alike
Regulations evolve. Threats change. What passed an audit two years ago might not today. That’s why compliance isn’t a one-time project—it’s an ongoing process.
At DG Technology, we help businesses stay continuously compliant by:
Conducting regular risk assessments
Mapping IT systems to relevant standards
Providing audit-ready documentation
Offering compliance-as-a-service (CaaS)
Keeping you updated on regulatory changes
IT compliance isn’t just about checking boxes. It’s about aligning your business with industry best practices, reducing risk, and earning the trust of those you serve. In a world where data is currency and trust is everything, compliance is the foundation your IT should be built on.
Ready to take action? Contact us today for a free cybersecurity assessment.
Ransomware has evolved from a niche cybercrime tactic to a multibillion-dollar global crisis. From small businesses to large enterprises and government agencies, no organization is immune. At DG Technology, we believe that the best way to deal with ransomware is to stop it before it strikes—because once it hits, the cost isn’t just financial. It’s reputational, operational, and often existential.
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts an organization’s files and demands payment (often in cryptocurrency) for the decryption key. These attacks are becoming more sophisticated and targeted, leveraging phishing, remote desktop exploits, and unpatched vulnerabilities. In 2024 alone, ransomware caused an estimated $20 billion in damages worldwide—and that number is expected to keep climbing.
But here’s the truth: paying the ransom doesn’t guarantee data recovery. It doesn’t prevent future attacks. And it certainly doesn’t restore customer trust.
While incident response plans and backups are essential, relying solely on reactive measures is no longer sufficient. Here’s why stopping ransomware before it strikes is critical:
The average ransomware recovery cost exceeds $1.8 million. Investing in proactive defenses—such as threat detection, endpoint protection, and employee training—costs a fraction of that.
Ransomware attacks often bring operations to a grinding halt. Even with backups, restoring systems takes time—time your business can’t afford to lose.
Double extortion is now common: attackers steal your data before encrypting it, then threaten to publish it even if you pay. Preventing the breach altogether is the only sure way to protect sensitive information.
Customers and partners expect you to protect their data. A ransomware incident can permanently damage trust and brand reputation, especially if personal or financial data is compromised.
At DG Technology, we specialize in advanced cybersecurity solutions designed to detect, block, and neutralize threats before they cause harm. Our approach includes:
24/7 Threat Monitoring
Our security operations center continuously monitors for suspicious activity across your network and devices.
AI-Powered Endpoint Protection
We use intelligent threat detection that identifies and stops ransomware at the point of entry.
Phishing & User Awareness Training
Employees are the first line of defense. We provide ongoing training to reduce human error and improve threat recognition.
Vulnerability Management
We keep your systems patched and protected against known exploits—because attackers love an unlocked door.
Zero Trust Architecture
We help implement security frameworks that minimize the impact of any breach by limiting access and containing threats.
In cybersecurity, timing is everything. Waiting until after a ransomware attack to act is a gamble no business can afford to take. The only reliable way to mitigate ransomware risk is to prevent it from ever getting a foothold.
At DG Technology, we don’t just react to threats—we stay ahead of them. Let us help you build a security posture that stops ransomware before it strikes.
Ready to take action? Contact us today for a free cybersecurity assessment.
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, managing multiple vendors and ensuring you’re getting the best value from each of them can be an overwhelming and time-consuming task. Organizations often face challenges like inaccurate quotes, confusing SKUs, rushed procurement timelines, and missed renewal deadlines, which can all add pressure to an already complex environment. Not to mention, overlooking critical details could lead to disruptions in day-to-day operations and place your company at risk.
DG Technology Consulting’s Vendor Management Experience-as-a-Service (vMAX) is designed to solve these challenges by offering a streamlined, closed-loop solution for managing your vendors, optimizing costs, and enhancing visibility into your technology landscape. Let’s dive into how vMAX is transforming vendor management and helping businesses navigate this crucial aspect of their operations with ease.
For many organizations, vendor management is often seen as a necessary but tedious administrative task. It can involve endless cycles of contract negotiations, pricing analysis, and constant monitoring of renewals. What makes it even more challenging is the lack of centralized visibility into vendor agreements, leading to mistakes such as missed deadlines, overspending, and an inefficient allocation of resources.
As businesses scale and their technology portfolios expand, tracking all these moving parts becomes even more complex. This often results in missed opportunities for cost optimization and long-term strategic vendor relationships.
DG Technology Consulting’s vMAX offers a comprehensive, holistic approach to vendor management that integrates every facet of the vendor relationship lifecycle. It’s designed to save you time, reduce costs, and offer unparalleled visibility. Here’s how:
The first step in vMAX is understanding your organization’s unique business goals and current technology landscape. DG Technology’s experts conduct a comprehensive portfolio assessment, which includes reviewing your existing technology solutions, vendor contracts, and licensing agreements. This analysis helps uncover any gaps, inefficiencies, or opportunities for improvement.
The insights gained from the portfolio assessment set the foundation for identifying areas where your organization can optimize its vendor relationships and technology investments.
Once the portfolio assessment is complete, vMAX digs deeper by reviewing vendor contracts, quotes, and purchase orders. The goal here is to ensure that all agreements are accurate and reflect the true value they deliver to your organization.
A critical aspect of this phase is comparing usage vs. entitlements. It’s common for businesses to overpay for unused features or services they don’t need. vMAX helps identify these areas and offers optimization strategies that ensure you’re not overspending on unnecessary features or underutilized services.
One of the most significant benefits of vMAX is cost optimization. By providing year-over-year cost comparisons for each vendor, DG Technology helps simplify the renewal process and identify opportunities to reduce expenses.
Rather than being blindsided by surprise costs or overages, vMAX manages your entitlements and ensures all renewals are planned and budgeted well in advance. This proactive approach helps you eliminate unexpected financial burdens while maximizing the return on your technology investments.
DG Technology’s Vendor Visibility Portal offers a real-time, comprehensive dashboard that consolidates all your vendor data in one place. With the portal, you can:
This enhanced visibility allows you to make data-driven decisions and keep a finger on the pulse of your vendor relationships.
With all this data in hand, DG Technology helps develop a clear technology roadmap tailored to your business objectives. This roadmap outlines recommendations for optimizing your technology portfolio and vendor relationships, with clear timelines and milestones for implementation.
This forward-looking approach ensures you’re always prepared for future needs, and it enables you to budget effectively for long-term technology growth. You’ll have the right mix of solutions and vendors to drive success, all while keeping your costs aligned with your business goals.
DG Technology’s extensive industry knowledge and vendor relationships provide valuable insights into market trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. This expertise enables them to offer tailored solutions that maximize the value of your vendor portfolio.
Vendor management can be a resource-draining process that diverts focus from more critical business operations. vMAX eliminates this burden, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on what truly matters—driving business growth.
By identifying areas where costs can be optimized, vMAX ensures your technology spend is aligned with your company’s actual needs, preventing overexpenditures on unnecessary services and products.
The Vendor Visibility Portal is a game-changer in providing a centralized view of all your vendor data. With detailed reporting, actionable insights, and easy access to all documentation, you gain unparalleled control and transparency over your vendor relationships.
Managing a growing vendor landscape is no easy feat, especially as technology evolves and the stakes get higher. DG Technology’s Vendor Management Experience-as-a-Service (vMAX) is a powerful solution that helps businesses not only streamline their vendor management processes but also optimize costs, improve vendor relationships, and gain a strategic advantage in an increasingly complex market.
With vMAX, you don’t just manage vendors—you maximize the value of your investments, ensuring your organization is positioned for long-term success. Contact us to learn more!
At DG Technology Consulting, we understand how essential it is for businesses to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technology. As we move deeper into 2025, it’s crucial to ensure your company’s technology infrastructure is both up-to-date and secure. One significant deadline you can’t afford to ignore is the end of support for Windows 10, which is set for October 2025.
Windows 10 has served businesses well over the years, but like all software, it has a life cycle. When Microsoft ends support for Windows 10, your business faces several risks, from performance issues to security vulnerabilities that could potentially harm your operations. Upgrading to Windows 11 today ensures that you stay ahead of these risks and future-proof your systems for continued success.
Perhaps the most pressing concern with sticking to Windows 10 past its end-of-life date is security. Without regular security updates and patches, your systems will be exposed to increasing threats. Hackers are constantly evolving their tactics, and outdated software makes it easier for them to exploit vulnerabilities. By upgrading to Windows 11, you’ll continue to receive critical updates, which can protect your business from threats like ransomware, malware, and data breaches.
Furthermore, depending on your industry, there are often strict compliance standards that require businesses to maintain secure systems. Remaining on Windows 10 after October 2025 may leave your company out of compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS. Don’t risk facing fines or penalties due to outdated technology—upgrading to Windows 11 ensures your business remains in line with the latest security and regulatory standards.
As technology advances, so do the demands of the software and applications your business uses. Older systems may struggle to keep up, leading to slower performance, lagging applications, and frustrated employees. This inefficiency can translate into lost productivity and higher maintenance costs. In addition, support for legacy systems becomes increasingly limited over time. As Windows 10 reaches its end of life, IT troubleshooting and repairs will become more difficult and expensive.
Windows 11 offers a fresh, streamlined experience designed to run faster and more efficiently on modern hardware. Its enhanced performance and optimization features can help your business operate at its best, providing better overall user experience and productivity.
The risk of a ransomware attack or cybersecurity breach is real—and the cost of recovery can be devastating. By upgrading to Windows 11 now, you strengthen your business’s resilience against the evolving threat landscape. Windows 11 comes with a host of security features, including advanced encryption, hardware-based protection, and more secure application management, giving you peace of mind that your critical data is protected.
Don’t wait for a cybersecurity incident to force your hand. The time to act is now. At DG Technology Consulting, we specialize in seamless technology upgrades that minimize downtime and keep your business operations running smoothly. Our team can help you transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 effortlessly, ensuring that your devices are ready for the future.
Our expertise in business IT solutions means we can guide you through the process with minimal disruption. Whether you’re upgrading a few workstations or performing a company-wide refresh, we’re here to make IT stress-free for you.
With Windows 10’s end of life approaching, there’s no time to waste. Start planning your upgrade to Windows 11 today and secure your technology for tomorrow. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you seamlessly transition, safeguard your business, and keep you ahead of potential risks.
Let us help you ensure your technology is always aligned with your business goals—secure, up-to-date, and ready for whatever challenges the future holds.
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SEPTEMBER/08/2022
DG Technology Consulting LLC Certified By the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
[Tampa, Florida]—09/08/2022—DG Technology consulting LLC, a business specializing in cybersecurity, is proud to announce national certification or re-certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Name of RPO, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
The WBENC standard of certification implemented by the Name of RPO is a meticulous process including an in-depth review of the business and site inspection. The certification process is designed to confirm the business is at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by a woman or women.
By including women-owned businesses among their suppliers, corporations and government agencies demonstrate their commitment to fostering diversity and the continued development of their supplier diversity programs.
About WBENC:
Founded in 1997, WBENC is the nation’s leader in women’s business development and the leading third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women, with more than 17,000 certified Women’s Business Enterprises, 14 national Regional Partner Organizations, and more than 350 Corporate Members. More than 1,000 corporations representing America’s most prestigious brands as well as many states, cities, and other entities accept WBENC Certification. For more information, visit www.wbenc.org.
On January 19th, McAfee Enterprise and FireEye emerged as Trellix. We’re excited to be part of the transformation to Trellix, and to continue to be a leading-edge provider of the tools that will that help our customers manage their security ecosystem in the face of dynamic threat actors.
DG Tech plays a critical role in the program’s mission to accelerate the development of interoperable security products and to simplify the integration of these products within complex customer environments, bringing better value and more protection against the growing threat landscape to joint customers. Through this partnership, DG Tech and Trellix address a rising industry need to shorten response times from security events and more easily remediate compromised systems, leading to a simplified Threat Defense Lifecycle.
Trellix XDR has a differentiated ability to secure the digital experience against cyber threats using threat intelligence capabilities developed through the scale and diversity of its sensor network. Trellix’s open, interoperable platform approach to cybersecurity allows customers to implement the specific technologies they need to protect their unique operations. It’s security that learns and adapts in a way that’s proactive, with automation doing what’s necessary across native and open connections.
We look forward to even greater technological advancements through the synergies of our integrated technology in 2022.
Most organizations have been vigilant about implementing security applications and procedures for their cloud-based endpoints and other components of their distributed networks. But what about the trusted, traditional mainframes that may make up much of your IT infrastructure?
In many cases, mainframes were self-contained within the organization and the traditional tight security surrounding them insulated 
them from outside threats to a large degree. But as businesses have begun integrating their mainframes into the connected cloud environment, they have become susceptible to the same threats as other elements of the network. Ensuring the same level of threat detection and protection for mainframes has therefore become a key concern for IT leaders.
You likely have event management technology in place to help you address and mitigate incidents as they occur from your distributed servers, network devices, or other endpoints. DG Technology has developed a solution that now incorporates your mainframe under the same security umbrella.
The Mainframe Event Acquisition System (MEAS) from DG Technology enables real-time collection of information involving security, database-related, and transaction events that could be threatening your mainframe. MEAS integrates with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies from Splunk, IBM, CA, Symantec, ArcSight, Dell, RSA, McAfee, and LogRhythm to enable you to collect, store, report, and initiate corrective action against threats to your mainframe data.
MEAS allows you to respond to mainframe events and leverage SIEM technologies to email or text the appropriate users to ensure security policies surrounding your mainframes are being followed.
MEAS listens for events on your mainframe within each LPAR, selecting only those required by the client. When a targeted event is detected, MEAS captures the event and details and converts the data to expose the event to your SIEM application. MEAS then documents a history of events in an SQL database which you can use to execute queries, perform event correlation, and send additional events to your SIEM software for action.
With real-time access to your mainframe events, you are better able to react to situations as they occur. There is no longer a need to run time-consuming batch jobs to search through your SMF data and wait a day to discover an event has occurred. MEAS immediately notifies you when a potential negative event is happening allowing you to act fast to prevent a negative impact on your security and compliance requirements.
As your mainframes begin to play a more prominent role in your connected network, you need to increase your visibility and security protection. MEAS can provide that layer of protection.
Contact DG Technology to see how the MEAS solution fits into your overall security plan.
An out-of-the-box anti-virus solution no longer works for enterprise security. Employees are working outside of firewalls with multiple, connected devices that rely on web applications to deliver operational efficiency. Even when devices work inside the firewall, vulnerabilities exist that may not be reflected in a governance plan. Because different business departments require an assortment of apps, services, and devices to meet business goals, macro and micro level endpoint solutions are required for complete systems safety.
If you haven’t adopted or evaluated your endpoint solutions recently, here are 6 reasons why you should today.
Anti-virus Solutions Are Frustrating for Your Enterprise
48% of technology and process managers report that their current anti-virus solutions hinder the performance of their endpoint 
systems. When anti-virus software is seen as a challenge, it’s less likely to be adopted and embraced across your enterprise. In addition, traditional signature-based AV solutions no longer protect organizations from advanced threats.
Enterprise Management Still Isn’t Happy with Endpoint Response
Endpoint detection and response is a critical component for subduing and eliminating security threats. It’s also can be the most frustrating. Endpoint solutions need to be familiar and flexible to information security professionals and a range of employees who aren’t information security experts. Unfortunately, most endpoint solutions aren’t configured and deployed with the non-infosec professional in mind. This leads to only half of enterprise organizations report being satisfied with endpoint detection response.
Endpoint Ignorance Still Causes the Most Damage
Employees are likely to be the primary cause of security breaches. Employee negligence in following outlined security practices is the most probable cause of a cyber breach, but ignorance shouldn’t be ignored, either. Endpoint security products evolve parallel to the intelligence and capabilities of new system threats, causing each iteration of your security product to be more complex than it was before. Employees can get caught up in this confusion when trying to follow your security protocols. Attackers are also aware that employees are likely to let the breach in, and their methods of choice reflect that opportunity.
Mobile Endpoints are Fast Growing and Unsecure
Mobile devices empower enterprises to scale their operational reach by deploying fully connected remote workers. However, there is a clear, and often unrecognized, tradeoff between mobile scalability and security. Many information security professionals struggle with securing mobile devices. In some cases, the enterprise may allow remote workers to use their own devices across potentially unsecured networks. But even if devices are owned by the enterprise, information security departments may not be able to justify a budget increase or budget reallocation to secure mobile infrastructure.
Your Endpoint Governance Plan May Not be Responsive
Endpoint governance plans often aren’t updated fast enough to combat smarter and more frequent cyber attacks. The end result is an outdated governance plan that is difficult to follow and even more difficult to enforce. The different layers of processes and operations that make up your enterprise may also find an endpoint governance plan to slow down core operations, putting untrained managers in the difficult situation of deciding when business reward outweighs the potential risk.
Endpoint Security Products Aren’t Consolidated
Your enterprise most likely purchases multiple endpoint security products from multiple vendors, leading to increased management costs and lack of cohesive oversight of total endpoint security. Products sourced and licensed through different vendors tend to cause endpoint performance issues. Even worse, the products essentially work in isolation, reducing the effectiveness of your security policies and leaving your system open to the individual flaws of each solution, and the inefficiencies caused by lack of synergy.
Total Endpoint Security With DG Technology
Cyber criminals want nothing more than to disrupt your system and compromise your data. Individual endpoints are there way in. Enterprises need an endpoint security solution that quickly adapts to the methods used by cyber criminals. From malware to ransomware, DG Technology can secure your endpoint with a single solution that offers preventative layers of security, forward-thinking insights, and rapid response options.
Contact DG Technology today for your endpoint security assessment.
Malware threats continue to be a major source of concern for business leaders. According to a report from Nationwide, nearly 60 percent of small businesses have been victims of a cyberattack over the past year. Even more startling, most weren’t even aware that they had been breached. These attacks include computer viruses, phishing scams, Trojan horses, hacking, data breaches, and ransomware.
The report also says lack of preparedness was a significant issue for the attacked businesses with more than half saying they didn’t
have a dedicated employee or vendor monitoring for cyberattacks.
Malware and threat detection is a key to preventing the theft of intellectual property and customer data as well as reducing the cost and efforts of dealing with attacks. Higher threat detection effectiveness increases the speed with which you can detect, block, contain, and remediate threats. It reduces false positives which allows staff to better focus on real threats.
There are three key areas to focus on as you implement your Malware defense plan.
Endpoint Security
The best way to defend against Malware is to stop it before it gets into your system. That requires setting a foundation of integration, automation, and orchestration of both your consumer and enterprise endpoints. The key is using a single agent architecture that breaks down silos between isolated capabilities to enhance efficiency and protection. A single platform that combines firewall, reputation, and heuristics with the latest in machine learning technology is the best way to stop zero-day malware before it can infect your endpoints.
Data Center Intrusion Prevention
Effective network security means continually evolving to mean the advanced attacks you now face. Protecting against dangerous intrusions requires intelligent threat prevention with intuitive security management. The most effective threat prevention relies on next generation inspection architecture designed to perform deep inspection of network traffic while at the same time maintaining line-rate speeds. The ideal platform combines full protocol analysis, threat reputation, behavior analysis, and advanced malware analysis to detect and prevent known and zero-day attacks on your network.
Mobile Security
As more organizations move to a mobile workforce, more people are connecting to your network from home computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Theft of mobile devices and malware targeted specifically for remote devices is on the rise. Your security plan must incorporate ways to prevent hackers from using them as unauthorized portals into your system. The most effective mobile security includes kernel-level security extensions that helps block and secure devices from malware delivered through malicious applications and websites while minimizing impact to performance and conserving battery power.
McAfee has been awarded the AV-Test Best Usability Award which is given annually to the most user-friendly enterprise-class product for defending against malware threats. The award is largely based on minimizing false positives while still protecting the endpoint. Contact DG Technology to discover how you can leverage McAfee’s award winning suite of security tools to protect your business from dangerous malware.
Increased breaches and growing threats have put data protection at the top of the list of IT leaders’ issues list. Governments around the world are joining the fray by mandating data security safeguards for businesses. One of the most prominent is the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is set to take affect for the 28 E.U. member countries in May of 2018.
The GDPR will certainly drive implementation of tighter controls surrounding data security, but compliance with government regulations is not the only reason organizations are stepping up data security. Business leaders are beginning to recognize that not only is protecting customer data good policy, when handled effectively, it can also be a competitive advantage.
According to a report from McAfee developed from a survey of 800 senior business professionals across eight countries, nearly three out of four respondents can quantify the value of security to their business and are using data protection to attract new customers.
Here are four ways enhanced data protection can be a competitive advantage.
Increased client trust
With news of another breach breaking nearly every week, people are increasingly worried about the security of their data. Being able to demonstrate how your organization is taking extra precautions to protect their data could end up being a differentiator when it comes to buying decisions.
Improved data analytics
More companies are now using Big Data to evaluate their businesses and make decisions involving product development, customer service, and organizational efficiency. With clean, secure data, you can be confident that the results coming from your analysis efforts are accurate and can be relied on when making key decisions.
Enhancing the business culture
The McAfee report points out that an ancillary benefit of effectively securing your data is helping to establish an ethical approach to business. This perception can be important when it comes to not only attracting new customers, but in finding and acquiring talent that can help your business thrive. The millennial generation in particular is more interested in working for companies that feature those types of values.
Tightened IP Security
Most businesses operate today in fiercely competitive environments. A properly secured data environment protects not only customer data but valuable intellectual property information as well. Keeping proprietary data from falling into the wrong hands can help ensure that you stay ahead of the competition.
As a McAfee Partner, DG Technology has deep expertise in architecting, implementing, and supporting integrated security solutions leveraging the McAfee product portfolio. To learn more about how DG Technology and McAfee can help you secure your data and provide you with a competitive advantage, check out our Enterprise Security Solutions.
