Thank you to everyone who participated in our Halloween Costume Contest this year.

In the 0-4 age group, our winners are Teagan, Duncan and Drew Anderson, children of Branden Anderson!

Dorothy, Lion & Scarecrow

In the 5–9 age group, our winner is Aurielle Abate, daughter of Anthony Abate!

Fallen Angel

In the 10–14 age group, our winners are Ryan and Avery Vance, children of Angel Vance!

Tom & Gisele

In our Adults category, our winner is Diana Rotelli!

Highlander

Favorite Pet Costume, Nellie, Sam Patterson’s Dog

Dodgeball

Thank you to all who participated—check out the rest of the incredible costumes below!

Age 0–4 Honorable Mentions

Age 5–9 Honorable Mentions

Age 10–14 Honorable Mentions

Adult Honorable Mentions

Thank you to everyone who participated in our pumpkin carving contest this year. The competition was strong, but ultimately there were four that stood out above the rest.

In the 5–9 age group, our winner is Sarah Bragin!

Sarah Bragin

In the 10–14 age group, our winner is Logan Walder!

Logan Walder

In the 15–18 age group, our winner is Katie Kleiner!

Katie Kleiner

In our Adults category, our winner is Karen Craig!

Karen Craig

Thank you to all who participated—check out the rest of the incredible pumpkins below!

Age 5–9 Honorable Mentions

Age 10–14 Honorable Mentions

Age 15–18 Honorable Mentions

Adult Honorable Mentions

As companies migrate more and more workloads to the cloud, it’s important to ensure that any resources in the public cloud are secured by adhering to industry standards and best practices 

Microsoft Secure score provides organizations with a measurement that helps you understand your current security posture, as well as a list of actions you can take to improve it. 

Secure Score helps customers: 

  • Report on current state of the organization’s security posture. 
  • Improve security posture by providing discoverability, visibility, guidance and control. 
  • Compare with benchmarks and establish key performance indicators (KPIs). 

Evolving regulatory requirements and new security vulnerabilities provide organizations with incentive to disable TLS 1.0. ConRes recommends customers get ahead of this issue by removing TLS 1.0 dependencies in their environments and disabling TLS 1.0 at the operating system level, where possible. 

ConRes recommends that any organization with a TLS 1.0 deprecation plan include the following: 

  • Code analysis to find or fix hardcoded instances of TLS 1.0 or older security protocols. 
  • Network endpoint scanning and traffic analysis to identify operating systems using TLS 1.0 or older protocols. 
  • Full regression testing through your entire application stack with TLS 1.0 disabled. 
  • Migration of legacy operating systems and development libraries and frameworks to versions capable of negotiating TLS 1.2 by default. 
  • Compatibility testing across operating systems used by your business to identify any TLS 1.2 support issues. 

Windows Server 2012 R2 End of Support Date is October 2023. How does this impact customers? 

Customers will no longer receive critical security patches for key exploits. Microsoft will no longer allow organization to pay for support as you can during extended support. 

If you think this may affect your organization, reach out to your ConRes rep to prepare for end of support and discuss your options.