Blog Post - Make way for ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) [Published January 2024]

Make way for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

The emigration of IT networks into the cloud broadens opportunities for many data-driven enterprises, but also complicates the task of protecting them. To counter this and other trends like hybrid work, more organizations are taking up Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).

ZTNA represents part of a broader shift into zero trust architecture, where the focus of cybersecurity is less at the edge of the network and more with individual users. Permission to enter is no longer automatic, nor is open access across the host network.

Case Study - Paul Miller Ford [Published Late 2023]

Kentucky auto dealership drives sustainability with support from Spectrum Enterprise

“Communication has been the biggest key for me with Spectrum Enterprise.”

Will Atwood, Chief Technology Officer, Paul Miller Ford

Paul Miller Ford is an automotive dealership in Lexington, Kentucky. For three generations the Miller family has set a fast pace designing retail solutions that work in the automotive industry. They know continuing that tradition for generations to come means embracing an environmentally sustainable future.

Blog Post - Business travel is back [Published October 2023]

Business travel is back – are hoteliers ready?

One of the quieter economic trends of 2023 was the beginning of a robust return to business travel. Global business travel spending, which nearly doubled in 2022, has continued its momentum. In 2024 we should see travel spending levels climbing toward new highs.

What can an entrepreneurial hotel operator do to optimize returns on this market expansion, protect their networks from cyberthreats — and prevent losing business to other hoteliers with similar ambitions?

Blog Post - Bringing together a connected campus [Published October 2023]

Bringing together a connected campus enhances collaboration

The connected campus, a broad-based transformation that leverages information-centric services such as Big Data and AI, is a tool for differentiating institutions of higher learning. The connected campus offers a means of prioritizing student experience that engages people on a deeper level while increasing enrollments.

The end goal of a connected campus is creating a place where students and faculty accomplish more with seamless collaboration.

Case Study - Red Studios Hollywood [Published Early 2023]

Hollywood studio expands network capacity, exceeding expectations of leading entertainment producers

“Before, we lacked a lot of provider support and a lot of the latest and greatest technology, and that’s where I felt our studio could take advantage of a partnership with Spectrum Enterprise. And the team at Spectrum Enterprise does make my life easier in general.”

Jasmine Lee, Director of Studio Operations, Red Studios Hollywood

Red Studios Hollywood, a 116,000-square-foot production facility with more than 100 years of experience hosting some of the best-known film and television productions, was feeling its age. Experiencing bandwidth limitations and WiFi dead spots, Red Studios Hollywood saw the opportunity to embark on a digital network overhaul.

Work Sample #13 - Social Media Campaign on Digital Health/AI

In July, 2018, I produced a series of social media posts for LinkedIn and Twitter to promote a client's digital health strategy around the wider use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Article #12 - Toon Town

This July 2018 article I wrote for Greenwich magazine celebrates Greenwich, CT's place as an epicenter of leading cartoonists in the 1950s and 1960s, when Greenwich was a quasi-art colony for Madison Avenue. It centers on my interview with Cullen Murphy, son of longtime "Prince Valiant" cartoonist John Cullen Murphy, about his 2017 memoir regarding what it was like growing up around a network of creative, offbeat people.