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Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
Windows 7 End of Life Puts Hospitals in a Pickle
Microsoft is ending all support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020 - less than 3 months away (as of this writing)! After that time, there will no longer be any updates (including securit...
Charlie Schick Pharma and Healthcare Consultant
Total Geekery: Data Diode Bioreactor Demo
This post will be on the light side, describing a demo I had fun making and about which my co-workers are tired of hearing me speak. Nonetheless, despite the geekiness of the demo, it was...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
How Will You Securely Expand Your PI System to Include Contract Manufacturers?
So you want to optimize your manufacturing operations. The competitive landscape virtually demands it, driving efficiency into every facet of every process across your organization and be...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
A New Model for Secure IIoT Connectivity
I recently wrote a post about how IIoT devices are upending the Purdue Model as folks jump layers and stream data from the low layers directly up to the higher layers and beyond. Thinkin...