Kerkhoff Technologies Inc.
45389 Luckakuck Way # 204 V2R 3C7 Chilliwack, BC, Canada

So as the saying goes, what a crazy and unprecedented year. Who would have thunk! It’s been a whacky year that’s impacted everyone. It’s hard to know exactly what to expect in 2021 but instead of worrying about what might happen in the future, we can continue to focus on what we can do today, having a lot of fun doing great work! Wishing everyone a Happy 2021

Hope this Holiday Season brings you many great memories and wonderful reasons to smile!

Coronavirus and remote working: what you need to know Coronavirus has brought remote working to the top of everyone’s mind. With many organizations already enabling or exploring remote working, here are 11 tips from our Security Partner - SOPHOS to help your users, and your company, stay secure while protecting everyone’s physical health - https://bit.ly/3fo4Lji

This is more than just an act of remembrance but also a pledge to guard the honour of war dead. The tradition includes, a one- or two-minute silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month (11:00 am, 11 November), as that marks the time (in the United Kingdom) when the armistice became effective

I’ve recorded a separate video on what the cybersecurity threat landscape looks like in 2020. This is based on a ton of research and surveys done by our partner Sophos. I’ve taken their information (normally over 2 hours) and condensed it into a 21 minute flyover on the key takeaways. This is a great followup to the webinar we did with real data from 5000 companies. Here are some of the takeaways. Average firewalls aren’t able to inspect most internet traffic, because it’s ...encrypted Many viruses are using encryption now to get around firewalls Data in the cloud (Sharepoint, Dropbox, etc) is at risk too there is never a free pass There is more info and takeaways in the video, which has been uploaded to Youtube: https://bit.ly/2CP1ZEX I trust this is useful, educational, and inspirational. Let me know what you think.

Check out this edition of SKOOKUM, the UFV alumni magazine page 24. The article covers our Founder and CEO, Wim Kerkhoff and Paras Kalra our co-op student. We have come full-circle with Wim going from a co-op student to now employing co-op students in his own business! #mentorshipmatters #greatpeople #greatplacetowork #fullcircle #experientiallearning

We did the cybersecurity webinar mid-July, on the topic of Why anti-virus and firewalls are not enough. During the webinar, the software was a bit glitchy (imagine that!) when we started the live hacking demo. We finally got to cutting that dead-air segment out and uploaded the recording. It’s available now for playback at: https://bit.ly/36pHqeo I trust this is useful, educational, and inspirational. Let us know what you think

Wishing you a Happy - Long - Thanksgiving - Weekend!

Every quarter we come together to create a 90-Day World by setting and completing Rocks. This makes us more focused, we get more accomplished, and have a higher level of accountability. As your team completes more and more Rocks, you will experience improved communication, increased self-satisfaction and more overall enjoyment at work.

Last Friday, we had our first team event of 2020 - with Social Distancing of course! It was so good too hang out with everyone in person and not on Zoom, Slack or MS Teams!

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