The FBI has released a significant security alert recommending both small business offices and people who use small office routers and select NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices to reboot their router and devices. This reboot will create a temporary disruption to the VPNFilter malware attack.

The Channel Compay's CRN.com has named C Spire Business (formerly TekLinks) to its 2018 Tech Elite 250 list.

This annual list honors an exclusive group of North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading technology suppliers.

Technology Solutions Manager Cindy Fetters of C Spire Business (formerly TekLinks) is asked a lot of questions from business leaders looking for smart IT advice.

The question she most often hears is, "Does my small business really need a security risk assessment?" Check out Cindy's answer:

During our internal penetration test engagements, we regularly come into contact with multifunction printers that are still using the default administrative login credentials. Obviously, using default credentials is never a good idea and I'd like to show how we can often pivot from these seemingly innocent multifunction devices and ultimately obtain total compromise of an environment.

Our team thinks TekLinks is pretty awesome, and the Birmingham Business Journal agrees! Big thanks to BBJ for ranking TekLinks the No. 6 Best Place to Work in Birmingham among  companies with 100 to 249 employees.

TekLinks' Director of Marketing & Partner Development Haley Montgomery has once again been named to CRN's Women of the Channel list. Haley was previously named to the list in 2017.