The WiSP Technology & Cybersecurity Blog

The digital age has made our lives easier than ever, but it has also made it easier for hackers to take advantage of our online weaknesses. Hackers are getting smarter and using more creative ways to get into people's personal and business accounts.

This case study highlights some major performance differences that we witnessed in a heavily wooded area in Lower Michigan.

Security has always been a hot topic in networking, but in the recent years it seems like that concern has had to grown at an exponential pace. Malware, phishing and ransomware infections seem to happen more frequently all the time – but what can be done to help protect yourself against these attacks? You likely already have firewalls and antivirus solutions in place – so what’s a critical part of your network that you likely haven’t initiated a defense plan for yet? DNS. Umb

Gardonville is a member-owned cooperative in west central Minnesota that provides voice, video, and broadband services to approximately 5,700 locations in their ILEC, CLEC, and wireless areas. Gardonville connects homes and businesses using a number of platforms including VDSL, Fiber Optic, Wireless Point-to-Multipoint, and Wireless Point-to-Point. SITUATION - As Gardonville’s subscriber’s bandwidth consumption and number of connected devices in the home grew - something el