Question Conformity
Kevin Fream
America's Cyberist Helping Financial & Professional Services Avoid Loss, Improve Business, and Eliminate Doubt
T - Minus 250 Days
Can you check out this company? Something is "just not right" about them.
The latest gift to the technology industry had a slick WordPress template, but sparse on anything of substance to show what they did or why or who they really were.
Secretary of State business search showed an inactive LLC. A quick WHOIS and Builtwith check showed the site was purchased and republished about a year and a half ago. The address was the same as another company in a large office park that happened to tout a colocation data center.
The team shown were either ghosts or a random cattle rancher, supposed sales person in another state, and two folks who worked help desk under contract for an ISP and college for 3 years.
When you called the phone number there were just two options of Sales and Support. Sales was some automated voice for a supposed human. Support was a nice guy who answered the phone "NOC". When I said I needed help setting up a network, he took over 3 minutes to find the sales e-mail address.
According to IDC Marketscape, over 95% of businesses are committing willful neglect for potential reputation damage, legal action, fines or penalties, and bankruptcy by exposing employees and customers to the security and privacy risks of questionable IT support.
Whether it's culture, politics, or suspect marketing, we all need to question what we're told because most of it is not true or purposefully deceptive.
Daily mission:?Learn to research any prospect or competitor within 15 minutes using simple web searches at your Secretary of State, GoDaddy WHOIS, and LinkedIn.
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